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[Dara @dara_venture]

You raise your seed round.....now what?

The first thing you do when $1-2M hits the bank account is open the app, look at the number, take the screenshot, smile, send it to your family group chat to make your dickhead brother jealous....then close it.

You just got 18-24 months if you're disciplined, 8-10 if you're stupid.

Firstly,
Don't change your fucking life.

Pay yourself enough to not stress about rent. $80-120k depending on city, even lower if you can stomach it.

If you pay yourself $350k after a $2M raise.....chances are, you will not last. You're not running a company just yet.....it's an experiment...one that will end quickly if you prioritize short term gains > long term greatness.
Same with office. You don't need one. The "we need a real space for the culture" is bullshit.

Work from home.
Your only job for the first 6 months is to talk to users and ship quickly.

If you raised $2M and you're not doing (minimum) 5 customer calls a week as a founder........your priorities are messed up.

You need to understand as quickly as possible if the people who use your product, come back without you begging them to do so!
Almost everything else is a vanity exercise.

Series A timeline in 2026 is 600+ days from seed.
Less than 15% of seed-funded startups ever raise an A.
So track burn weekly.
Know your runway to the day.
Every dollar should ship product or facilitates customer feedback .
If a tool, hire, or expense doesn't do that, stop it.

Conference tickets? No. PR firm? Absolutely fucking not. "Brand consultant" don't be stupid. Logo redesign? GTFOH.

72% of seed stage burn is "people".
74% of startup failures involve premature scaling.

You raise, you feel pressure to "build the team," you hire 4 people in 90 days, burn goes from $40k/mo to $180k/mo, the new hires don't have product to work on because there isn't one yet, you spend your time managing them instead of talking to users, runway evaporates, you're back fundraising at month 9 with worse metrics than when you started.

Stay 2-3 founders + AI for as long as humanly possible.
The teams crushing right now have 4 people doing what 15 used to do just 24 months ago.

When/If you do hire.......focus on builders, forget managers. Focus on operators, not "credentials".

If you're not using AI for code (Cursor, Claude Code), customer support, sales prospecting, content, ops, brand, recruitment vetting......your competition is winning.

Tech is commodity now. GTM and data are the moats. Use AI to compress everything that isn't either of those things.

Try to avoid giving advisors equity.
An "advisor" (who you mistakenly thought would enhance "credibility optics") who takes 1%, for doing absolutely nothing, is the same prick that costs you seven figures in a future round.

Model dilution before signing every SAFE.

Don't talk to VCs for 6 months. (forget the "always raising" mindset for now) Keep relationships warm with periodic updates but take the foot of the gas slightly.
I know. I'm a VC saying this. But I mean it. The gravitational, distractional pull of the next round, will fuck up your focus harder than anything else.

Send your existing investors a 5 line monthly email. Don't go to investor dinners. Don't "build relationships for the A." If you're talking to VCs more than building, again, your priorities are misjudged and it will show up against your development goals.

The money will fuck with your head. People will ultimately treat you differently. Nobody really prepares you for that.
You'll get DMs from people you haven't talked to since school. You'll feel the urge to announce, to LinkedIn post, to look like a "real founder."

You'll also be lonelier than ever. You raised, your "friends" think you've made it, you can't tell them you're scared shitless and don't know if it'll work.
I would recommend finding 1-2 founders.....who are 6 months ahead of you, and text them weekly.
That's effective therapy (at least from my personal experience).

Last thing.
The party ended when the money hit.
Now you have a shot and a clock.....the only thing that matters is whether you ship something people genuinely want before that timer runs out.

Most people who give you advice in the next 6 months are probably going to try selling you something. Filter everything ruthlessly. Trust your user feedback and trust the burn rate.

Now go build and say "no"...... consistently.

Godspeed.

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Elon Musk: I became very good at manufacturing because I had to, there was simply no choice. At this point, I might know more about manufacturing than any human ever has because I've manufactured so many different things in so many different arenas. I think probably more than anyone ever has.

I sleep about six hours on average, and I work almost every waking hour. I don't have social dinners, really. I literally just thought I will have lunch and dinner brought in during meetings and just continue meeting.

I guess I started out with the first internet company we built. We were able to rent an office in what was essentially a leaky attic for five hundred dollars a month, and the cheapest apartment we could find was eight hundred dollars a month. We only had about five thousand dollars between my brother and I, so we decided we would just stay in the office. We got some couches that converted into beds, and we would sleep at night and then just turn the beds back into couches before anyone came in. Then we would shower at the YMCA down the road. That literally was what we did for several months.

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[Wenny @usewenny]

Many beauty and wellness businesses (salons, spas, studios and clinics) lacks the system they need to grow and stay organised.

Having visited and interacted with many business owners, managers and even employees, one thing is prevalent, there is a vacuum that needs to be filled. The need for a system that will help them mange their bookings, grow their revenue and give their business the visibility it deserves for customers to easily find them.

That is why we are building @usewenny the operating system for beauty and wellness businesses and beauty pros to help them get more bookings, less stress and stay organised. A system that helps them manage all their business operations from one place and let them stay focused to their craft.

If you own or run a salon, spas, studios, or clinic or a customer looking for a platform to easily book local beauty services near you instantly, look no further and join our early access waitlist 👇

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[Wenny @usewenny]

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