You get a round of funding, or you have X in revenues. That's all you have. There is always more things that you want to do with your product than that amount o

You get a round of funding, or you have X in revenues. That's all you have. There is always more things that you want to do with your product than that amount of money will buy. That's not a failure of management, that is physical reality. You can't change physics, even if you are a manager. Sure, there are plenty of cases where management has unreasonable expectations. I'm not talking about that. And it is often not a 'management' at all. I have side projects I'm working on. I can watch TV at night, or work on the project. I have a limited budget (time) and if I don't spend it on the project, the work won't get done. It's my equity, it's my labor, it's my project. If I'm rested and able to work, but choose not to, well, I end up with less as a result.