Comments on: How funding can kill your startup http://blog.bartjellema.com/2009/01/28/how-funding-can-kill-your-startup/ My message to the void Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian Menzies http://blog.bartjellema.com/2009/01/28/how-funding-can-kill-your-startup/#comment-5 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:43:09 +0000 http://blog.bartjellema.com/?p=21#comment-5 Yup, too much money can make you lazy, but too little and you’re dead. My favorite businesses are the bootstrapped, self funded ones, but sometimes it’s really hard to bootstrap a silicon chip fab or a new drug or a high throughput optical switch. Then you need money and better raise what you need or you’ll get hammered when you go back cap in hand. Funded vs unfunded you can make it your first criteria if you want but it is going to limit what you can do.

I like Jeff Hawkins’ (palm inventor) advice, “focus on what you want to achieve then always make decisions that increase your probability of achieving it”

]]> By: Geoff McQueen http://blog.bartjellema.com/2009/01/28/how-funding-can-kill-your-startup/#comment-3 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:38:00 +0000 http://blog.bartjellema.com/?p=21#comment-3 Speaking of the Porsche, Ben Keighran from BluePulse, and awesome dude and real success story to come out of Australia in recent times has done very well out of the BluePulse business, even though it was funded.

A decent word of warning none the less.

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