Too many “entrepreneurs” these days are focusing their day-to-day trying to raise their next round, siphoning their own equity out of the business to artificially inflate their company’s valuation rather than focusing on what’s actually important: Building a sustainable business.
Build a Business, Not a Financial Machine
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Exactly! This focus on raising rounds and valuation also causes them to lose focus on building good products… which, in the end, ironically causes a lot of them to fail.