How did you all decide between raising and bootstrapping? The AI tooling space feels like it punishes patience right now.

I bootstrapped the agency and I would still bootstrap in your space. Speed matters but so does owning your cap table when the market corrects.

Third option: bootstrap to real revenue, then raise from a position of strength. That is what we are doing.

Anyone using a fractional CFO before $1M ARR? Trying to decide if it is premature.

Biased answer from a fractional CFO: not premature if you are making pricing or hiring decisions without a model.

Update: talked to 5 target customers this week. 4 of 5 said the monthly close is their most hated task. Wedge confirmed.

David that is the cleanest wedge I have seen in this channel. Price it as relief.

First ten hires question: generalists or specialists? Every founder I ask gives the opposite answer.

Generalists until the pain of not having a specialist is obvious. Then hire exactly that specialist.

Chris is covering pricing in Office Hours right now if anyone is following this thread. Worth jumping in.