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May 19, 2008

Fundraising: "An exercise in getting rejected"

John Cook's Venture Blog has a May 15 posting that links to a Google video interview with Seattle several entrepreneurs. Some lessons learned: Fund raising is you other full time job Avoid venture financing for as long as you can We never would have been able to sell out for $10 million if we'd taken a large VC round

Posted at 06:38 AM in Venture capital |

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