But, in the Valley, increasing your fund size so dramatically is customarily seen as "smoking your own exhaust," or, among those with a classical turn of mind, hubris.
Don't focus on increasing your fund size or raising dedicated follow-on funds, which can lead to averaging down of returns and may distract you from your core expertise of backing the best early-stage entrepreneurs.
While our sales have slowed in the middle of our funding period the internet is a very big place, increasing your funding period will give you extra time to engage with different bloggers, forums, comment sections etc".
Instead, increase your emergency funds in taxable accounts and open a Roth IRA.
"If you want to retain or increase your government funding, logic says that you need to succeed – not just on the track but by demonstrating high performance across all elements of your operations".
Below will help you learn how to build that bridge to a 10x return for your target investors, and hopefully, will increase your odds of being funded.
This is always worth remembering because, in my experience, grant money for exercise physiology per se isn't easy to come by, and making your project more relevant to a clinical setting may increase your chances of getting funded.
Applying for many grants will get your name circulating and it will increase your chances of getting funding.
"The most logical thing to then do is to increase your contributions into that pension fund if you need to, rather than start up a separate personal pension.
Relying on just one or two seed funds increases your odds of starving to death in the post-seed gap.
