fundraising

“You don't want to go into a negotiation or into a meeting thinking like, oh, this is going to be harder for me because I'm a woman, because you're giving that person the upper hand.”

“If you've already worked out your unit economics and you, you've become profitable, then, you know, you have a little bit more leverage to have, you know, I feel like a faster, ah, fundraise process.”

“Fundraising is a lot like hiring. Like, you really want to align yourself with people that you want to continue working with, and that you genuinely like.”

“When you like start to put your own identity and like, well, I'm a bootstrap or I'm a VC thing like that starts to affect your decision-making in ways that are probably not Healthy for your company. And it's just better to look at money and fundraising general…”

“The folks who do fundraise too early typically get into real trouble cause they never are able to get the product market fit.”

“I think what I learned from seeing that kind of, like, maniac type person succeed, exceed, at least in the fundraising part of the process, is that, like, just how much people respond to that blind passion.”

“People might argue with this, and I don't even know if I believe what I'm saying, but I think probably I would say that the essential story that you have to tell when you're fundraising is a story of scale, right? Like, because the premise of fundraising is, i…”

“So every person, even if you say no, introduce me to three others. And that's sort of like this little kind of breadcrumb trail that leads you to all the craziest kind of places, but eventually you will find your people and a couple will tip and that's the mom…”

“This merely means that the most important thing that you guys can do is build great products that customers love, and that has little to do with fundraising, except as an enabler of that. So trying to get the last dime out of fundraising is taking away from th…”

“In general, I think you hear the news about these fundraisers that happen in a week, and you think every fundraise is going to take a week, but if you're actually being thoughtful on your side as well, it should take a couple months because otherwise you're no…”

“You're screwing yourself by overthinking all this stuff. Instead of just being like, hey, I need X dollars, I'm gonna raise it, and I'm gonna get back to work.”

“If you don't need a deal, man, you're going to pitch better. Like this, that's the way life works. Like when you don't need something, you're way more convincing than when you're begging for something.”

“People should not spend any time trying to optimize for like a fundraising outcome. And like, you should just basically wait until You're getting investors that are emailing you term sheets that are signed with like a blank for the valuation. And they say, jus…”

“Normally I say people don't wait, like wait until you have like maybe 14 or 12 months left and do your first attempt at fundraising or like test the waters maybe. And if it doesn't go well, you have another two shots actually. And then you can change things an…”