Bill Harding: Some people like fundraising. I'm not
one of them. Running a profitable company for the past year has afforded
me the luxury to wake up every morning and say to my mirror: “What
would you most like to do today, you cunning devil, you?”
On an average day, “talk to investors” would fall somewhere in the neighborhood of “take a multivitamin” and “backup my hard drive” on that list. It was something that I knew ought to be done, but being one of the most time-consuming and unpleasant-sounding choices on my list, it didn’t stand a chance competing against 100 exciting ways to build a better product.
At first I felt guilty about this. I take seriously my responsibility to keep Bonanzle as the fastest growing marketplace online, and, knowing that most of our competitors had raised $1 million to $5 million before even launching always gave me the nagging sense that “doing what I most wanted to do” was costing my business growth.
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Author: Bill Harding
