This is a great piece. I too started a company just 5 months ago. Fully bootstrapped and now con track to do 7 figures this year. Cash is king. You'll also be protected from the bubble when it goes BOOM :).
Bounce rates continues to rise. To fight it, I've tried to simplify the site and have even removed the blog from the main page and moved it to a tab in the header. Mistake? Good idea?
Agreed. More smaller cap funds and accelerate deal closing. Shouldn't take three months to raise. Right team, right product/pitch and they should be on their way iterating as fast as possible.
This could also potentially shorten length of runway needed. If you knew you could raise in 30 days... you wouldn't need 12 months of runway. Much more efficient for the entire ecosystem.