Fundraising & Equity
What If You Can't Raise? Alternatives to Venture Capital
Collated by Harry Prabandham
Curated by Rubric Financial
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Revenue-First Alternatives
- Shift to a revenue-first mindset: can you reach profitability or cash-flow breakeven with your current resources?
- Focus on your highest-margin, fastest-closing customer segments — cut experiments and double down on what's working
- Consider consulting or services revenue to bridge the gap — it's not scalable, but it extends runway while you build product
- Many successful companies (Mailchimp, Basecamp, Zoho) never raised venture capital — profitability is always an option
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