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This is Julia, the OC. You're totally right that we didn't realize how hard raising money actually is. A lot of other founders I've met also don't realize, whic

This is Julia, the OC. You're totally right that we didn't realize how hard raising money actually is. A lot of other founders I've met also don't realize, which means they're disappointed and discouraged when they try. The point of this post is to encourage founders to keep going even when they're down. I almost stopped fundraising a month in because I was so down, and now I'm grateful that I didn't. Everyone has imposture syndrome when raising. I wrote this post to let founders know they're not alone and to not lose their self-confidence because of investor rejections.

matte_black 8y ago
The irony here is that if I had been trying to raise money for about 6 months with no luck, and I read your article where you raised in just 8 weeks, I'd probably feel like a failure. I know someone that took 2 years of pitching and tweaking his company and bootstrapping before finally raising money. And by the way: In the end, his company failed, all the same.
bshimmin 8y ago
Are you seriously telling me that there are people out there who think fundraising is easy? (And are these people trusted with complex machinery?) You're trying to persuade a bunch of people you don't know to give you a really, really large amount of money - and, worse, those people you're pitching get pitched by people just like you every hour of every day. How could anyone think it was easy?
trocadero 8y ago
I don't think you understood the GP. Their point was that your experience was, relatively, a cake walk so you dont really understand the difficulty of raising money. A bit like a woman complaining that it took her 20 minutes of labor to give birth. Certainly an unpleasant experience but most have it a lot worse. Really yall did a phenomenal job of raising money. Thats hoe you should have framed your post, not how terrible of an experience it was.

matte_black 8y ago

The irony here is that if I had been trying to raise money for about 6 months with no luck, and I read your article where you raised in just 8 weeks, I'd probably feel like a failure. I know someone that took 2 years of pitching and tweaking his company and bootstrapping before finally raising money. And by the way: In the end, his company failed, all the same.

bshimmin 8y ago

Are you seriously telling me that there are people out there who think fundraising is easy? (And are these people trusted with complex machinery?) You're trying to persuade a bunch of people you don't know to give you a really, really large amount of money - and, worse, those people you're pitching get pitched by people just like you every hour of every day. How could anyone think it was easy?

trocadero 8y ago

I don't think you understood the GP. Their point was that your experience was, relatively, a cake walk so you dont really understand the difficulty of raising money. A bit like a woman complaining that it took her 20 minutes of labor to give birth. Certainly an unpleasant experience but most have it a lot worse. Really yall did a phenomenal job of raising money. Thats hoe you should have framed your post, not how terrible of an experience it was.