Fundraising as founders and investors describe it this month. The 12 strongest moments from named speakers, word for word, each playable from the second it was said. Updated .
“If you have not maxed out your IRA and 401k, you can do that. With every raise, aim to increase your savings rate.”
“‘We identified maybe like 35% that were losing money… go raise their prices, like double it’”
“We organized the inventory, sold it to our employees, sold it to our customers at a discount. We raised quite a bit of cash that way.”
“Raising $15 million in four weeks to buy a load of Starlink equipment coming into Australia”
“We just didn't spend time raising money. We just went in, find a few customers, three customers in the first month, right?”
“Experimenting with things like 30 days or 20 days of no complaining… ask them to raise a finger maybe every time you use an absolute”
“We discovered the mashata varieties were the ones that actually survived the squash vine borers… we started the seed side… we have the seeds… people want them”
“We partnered with a specialist in the space and we interviewed thousands of Australians, both prospective investors and existing investors.”
“There was already a WhatsApp group chat of investors that had like 40 investors at the time. They were sharing tips about like realtors, property managers, contractors, and stuff like that.”
“We probably sit at about 70-30 is like the round split when you bucket everyone into those sort of two groups.”
“I actually created my own pulp separator and it's an old salad spinner ... it takes five or six rounds to do that”
“Momentum in your fund is the momentum in the stock times the weight in the fund”
Summaries smooth out the specifics: the number, the caveat, the thing that went wrong. A short quote with the moment attached keeps them, and lets you hear the tone. Quotes are short extracts linked to the publisher’s episode. How we quote.