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"Friends and family round" has to be one of the worst concepts I've ever heard.

Great way to destroy your most precious and important relationships.



I agree, money issues are one of those things that can destroy relationships.

Never borrow money from friends, be extremely careful when borrowing money from parents.


If that's your attitude, probably not cut out for founding.


"Probably don't have enough wealthy friends & family" you mean?

Actually re-reading your comment I'm still not sure what you mean? If you're not willing to sacrifice relationships to start a company, then you're not cut out for founding? Isn't that a pretty unhealthy position to take in life?


Resourceful people should be able to find people relatively close to them that could kick in $5-50k x 3-10. You don't need to have a wealthy family or circle of friends.

The potential to sacrifice relationships is the complete wrong way to look at it. Investing is not only opportunistic, it can help someone realize a dream.

Correct, if these are your first thoughts, you are going to struggle mightily as a founder.


Very naive.


It's really not naive. Starting a startup is hard. If you and 1-3 others are not resourceful enough to round up $150k from your networks, no matter what you're financial means, you are going to have a very difficult go of it. This is not the hard part.




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