Andre Charoo — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:41:46 GMT

I would love to hear what VCs think about this as well.

Andre Charoo — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:55:38 GMT

I think Marc Andreessen answers your question in one of his postings on his blog entitled “How much funding is too little? Too much?

Here’s the link: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/07/the-pmarca-guid.html

Essentially, his view is that a startup’s life is divided into two parts: (1) Before Product/Market Fit – where a startup should ideally raise at least enough money to get to Product/Market Fit; and (2) After Product/Market Fit – where a startup should ideally raise at least enough money to fully exploit the opportunity in front of it, and then to get to profitability while still fully exploiting that opportunity.

I hope this helps. It’s definitely helped me regarding my view of how much I should raise.

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