Why fundraising is a terrible experience for founders: Lessons learned
Last week, we announced Kapwing’s seed round publicly. Like most startup founders who have just closed a financing round, we’re thrilled to have found investors and optimistic about the future. But I also feel that these reports paint a misleading picture of the fundraising process. For us and for many founders, the process of raising a seed round was discouraging, stressful, and very difficult. In this post, I describe the side of fundraising not covered in outcome announcements, the lessons and realities that inexperienced entrepreneurs should know to expect.
Read my lessons and the reasons why fundraising is a bad experience for founders on the Kapwing blog: https://www.kapwing.com/blog/the-terrible-truths-of-fundraising/
This is really, really cool. My congrats!
I read your blog a long time ago :) the most terrifying part was your problem with sleep. Hope, it didn't suck this time when you performed before several dozens (or more?) listeners.
Good luck.