I have come across several statements such as: a single person cannot raise money on their own (you need to be in a team of at least 2 people), it is not worth it because there is pressure on you, etc.
What is your experience with raising money?
What did it give you, and who did you raise it from?
What do you think helped you to a large extent to get the raise?
me and my co-founder are building an AI agent because at our last startup we just couldn t keep up with support.
we tried every chatbot out there. they all felt robotic. customers hated it.
hiring more people was too slow + too $$$
so we put together this ai chatbot (think intercom fin but deeper) that trains on your old tickets, learns your tone, doesn t hallucinate, and can actually answer stuff like a real support rep.
Last year @Clustr looked healthy with 10,000+ active users, 10-minute sessions and $20,000 in MRR. Yet users churned quickly traction didn t equal stickiness. After hundreds of growth experiments we finally pulled the plug, trimmed the team from 12 to 2, and plunged into pivot hell.
Dozens of dead ends later, I flew to San Francisco hunting for answers. On a quick walk in Dogpatch, Tom Blomfield (Monzo Bank/GoCardless) hit me with the line that finally cut through the fog:
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