VC Minute – quick advice to help startup founders fundraise better
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All right. You took a couple of weeks to build up your list. You took a couple more weeks to build out your meetings and get those intros. You took three weeks to take nonstop meetings. Awesome job. Guess what. You’ve got a deadline coming up. You’re up against that Thanksgiving deadline, whether you know it or not. And it’s late this year—on the 28th. So, it’s all the more reason that no new deals will get done in the four weeks following Thanksgiving.
But before you begin this whole process, let’s go back to the beginning and see if now is even the right time for you to be fundraising. Here’s the question you need to be asking yourself. Knowing that fundraising will take you out of the business for the next three months, can your business afford to have you out of the driver’s seat and just focused on funding? Or if you put all of your energy into growing your revenue, growing your customers, achieving your KPIs, and knocking it out of the park over the next four months, would you be in a better position to fundraise in Q1 2025?
Can you manage it from a cash flow standpoint? Can you manage it from a personal standpoint? What can you accomplish with fundraising? Or what can you accomplish without fundraising for the next four months? Weigh those options and decide, if is now the right time, or if should we push this out. Let me know where you end up on this.
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