Be careful with advice like this. You don't know if the company has yet succeeded. A lot of it is quite logical but at the same time many things are an anomaly

Be careful with advice like this. You don't know if the company has yet succeeded. A lot of it is quite logical but at the same time many things are an anomaly e.g the tool launched and closed fundraising within a short period of time. That's not always how it works out. Just because first commit to funding was 3 months doesn't mean you'll experience the same thing. I struggled for 4 years alone on an OSS project before raising funding. Hiring people, defining the product and executing was even harder. A person's experience only tells you what worked or is working for them or lessons they learned, it can't be cookie cutter fitted to your own journey.