Stay resilient with mental health, self-care, and energy management advice for startup founders.
Sunny shares, “The Series A felt like poetry. It didn’t feel like finance. And I think there, underlying that, there’s some delusional problems with how I was managing the company at the time.”
The title of the book is not about romantic love, it’s about instilling a love for the work within your organization.
Live by your core values, without exception. Because any one exception will undermine those values for everyone.
After you raise, recognize that you can’t possibly hire everyone all at once. Take your time to hire right. And most importantly, celebrate!
There’s so much in fundraising that you cannot control. Focus on what you can control and it will help what you can’t control fall into place.
By making fundraising into a game, you can change your mindset around it.
“Knowing that it is supposed to be hard is oddly freeing because it kind of alleviates that feeling of, oh, so and so makes it look so easy.”
It’s not a thing that VCs talk about, but it is something that we should cover. I tag-teamed with my friend, Eric Marcoullier on the topic of shutting down your startup.
This week, we’re covering an important but difficult topic: shutting down your startup. If you’re asking yourself the question, you may already have the answer. And your investors may have already written your company down.
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