Mo Money Mo Problems? How to Size Your Raise

Tom Powell here with the Founder's Office, and we were talking about how to size your raise. This is not a one size fits all type scenario, but I will say this. The bigger the raise, the bigger the potential for a hangover after you're completed and the bigger the fall. So what we want to be able to do is not raise just what you can imagine, but actually raise what you can justify. If you have an oversized raise, you'll have inflated expectations both from the team, the founder especially, and also from the investors. An undersized one, though, will starve the growth of the opportunity. The sweet, sweet spot is through that capital alignment zone, or as we call it, the capital alignment method. And that's where you have enough to accelerate and you don't have so much that you'll actually lose focus. So the six keys help with that, and the biggest one is clarity in this space. So if you have clarity of what you're building, then you'll be able to size that raise for the appropriate amount. We do that here at the Founder's Office. You can join us by simply sending your deck over to our website. We'll take a look at it, give you some feedback. You can also join us on Wednesday lunch and learns. Join us here at the Founder's Office and have a great day.