Three months. 75 investors. US$650,000 raised. My company, Love With Food, graduated from 500 Startups’ accelerator program about a year ago and we raised US$650 000 in June of 2012. It was three painful months of fundraising. If you think fundraising was a piece of cake just because we were a 500 alum, think again. When I first began fundraising, all I heard was words of discouragement. Most told me the food space is hard and being a solo founder makes my path even more difficult. Fundraising is one of the most painful things I’ve done in my life. It’s physically exhausting and worst of all, it was mentally torturing. My mind started to play games with me, and every waking moment, I had to fight thoughts of being a failure and was at the brink of giving up countless times.
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