Part 6 How Much Funding Is Too Little? Too Much? - pmarchive.com  ## Metadata - Author: **pmarchive.com** - Full Title: Part 6 How Much Funding Is Too Little? Too Much? - Category: #articles - URL: https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part6.html ## Highlights - **Before Product/Market Fit**, a startup should ideally raise at least enough money to get to Product/Market Fit. **After Product/Market Fit**, a startup should ideally raise at least enough money to fully exploit the opportunity in front of it, and then to get to profitability while still fully exploiting that opportunity. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j13btws68tr7j3wxh1t7fs5w)) - **So how much money should I raise?** In general, as much as you can. Without giving away control of your company, and without being insane. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j13cc2g6eaarsde555y3b6qy)) ## New highlights added March 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM - **If you are Before Product/Market Fit and you can’t raise enough money in one shot to get to Product/Market Fit**, then you will need get as far as you can on each round and demonstrate progress towards Product/Market Fit when you raise each new round. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jpp42pgvmmk1hc9jgnbwznrv))