Does it strike me odd that CEOs and founders complain about fund raising? That's one of the most important parts of their job. And I don't see how having 20 VC pitch meetings lasting 30 minutes on average over the course of three months is exactly "hard" work. I'd expect nothing less, and perhaps even more. Or at least some kind of analytical approach to the process that is both reasoned and strategic as it is dilige…
I think a lot of people hope that they can start an company by bootstrapping it. They hope they can start a company without selling. At least without selling themselves to VCs. I have this hope. In reality this hope in unrealistic, because capitalism requires capital. Very few businesses can realistically be bootstrapped. I think you are correct in your assessment that most of the people who’ve commented on this thread about not wanting to raise funds like this are unfit for reality. I myself wonder if I am fit for reality, and try to be realistic about the fact that I will need to raise money or risk jeopardizing what I’ve spent a long time working on. If you think finance and raising money like this are somehow beneath you, you’re unfit for this scene. This scene is all about selling yourself in the basest most vulgar ways to get capital so that you can engage in capitalism. ABC. Bootstrappers are the real unicorns.