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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

InfoChachkie

A from a new outside lead. This is due to a fundamental disconnect between the increased activity of high-volume seed investors (that fill out lots of Seed rounds) and the relatively small number of Series A investors, who only make 1 or 2 investments, per partner, per year.". There are no villains in the current Series A drama.

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Bootstrapping Organic Growth Makes Startup Sense

Startup Professionals Musings

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Despite all the focus you hear on external investors, over 90% of startups today are self-funded. Simply take enough to live on, but not to the point of your detriment.