Insanity? Why A Bootstrap Entrepreneur Raised $17 Million in Venture Funding
| May 16, 2008 |  View for printing |
If you've been following OnStartups.com for any period of time, you likely know that I'm not a big advocate of startup founders going out and trying to raise venture funding in the early stages.
My argument boils down to two things:
1) Most folks don't need venture funding in the early stages
2) the odds of first-time entrepreneurs actually raising VC is pretty low.
Oh, and 3) it's one of the least fun activities an entrepreneur can take. Raising funding is often harder than building a product/business -- and much less fun!
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