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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

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You’re offered a $9 million pre-money to raise $3 million (e.g. 5 million raised at a $9 million pre-money valuation or 35.7% dilution), I would personally probably avoid the extra money because as an entrepreneur the dilution would put me out of my confort zone. They get the PR bump.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. We had people hearing through the grapevine that we were about to raise money and new investors started calling us to get in on the deal. But I sometime see people get bogged down in PR releases, cancelation clauses, minimum guarantees, whatever. Yes, this was stupid.