193 days, 1,482 emails, $590,000 dollars: Exposing the Nitty Gritty Details of our Seed Round
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Last month we announced a new funding round for Tettra. I’ll admit, it feels really great to be able to tell the world that we closed more money. Especially after nearly going out of #business last year. I’ll also admit that raising it was a ton of work.Reading funding announcements from other startups makes it seem like it’s easy to raise money. It’s not. Paul Graham said it best in 2008, and his words still hold true today:“Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a #startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn’t do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal.”Luckily, there’s been a ton of advice shared about how to fundraise since then. Here are some of my (...)