032 - ALWAYS BE RAISING

Always be raising. Okay. A lot of people have disagreed with me on this one. In fact, a good friend of mine, GOSL, the CEO of Per Box, who's in the room with me at the moment, also massively, Dre, disagrees with me on this one, but there is a bit of nuance involved. The reality is when I'm talking about always be raising, I'm not necessarily talking about going out and talking to VCs and angels constantly about raising equity.

I'm talking about being very conscious about where sources of finance for your business might come from. These may be from investors who are providing you equity financing. But equally, it may be from finance institutions that are providing you some form of debt or revenue-based financing or a revolving facility against your inventory.