{"id":1192,"date":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/?p=linkedin-69"},"modified":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"what-is-your-plan-b-i-asked-one-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2021\/04\/08\/what-is-your-plan-b-i-asked-one-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What is your Plan B&#8221;, I asked one founder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What is your Plan B&#8221;, I asked one founder.<br \/>\nHe said we will raise our next round funding as our growth rate is great.<br \/>\nOther than that he did not have right plan at that time.<br \/>\nHe is good at what he does. I admire and like him. He thought that he had plan B ,But he did not really have one. I thought he would figure out some thing if he can&#8217;t raise funding. Eventually his startup went downhill because he could not raise funds.<br \/>\nIn fact it happens not only for him, For many other founders including me.<br \/>\nAs founders we think we have plan B. We don&#8217;t spend so much time as we spend on plan A<br \/>\nIn reality we don&#8217;t have really strong one which is almost powerful as plan A.<br \/>\nWhile it is important to be positive , At the same time one has to question the following<br \/>\nWhat if I don&#8217;t raise next round ?.<br \/>\nHow can I keep my startup running?<br \/>\nSo spend some time to create a strong plan B .In the other hand you put efforts in raising funds<br \/>\nOtherwise all your efforts for years and your savings invested along with investors will go vain<br \/>\nYou did not start your startup to come this far ie fail due to the fact that you could not raise funding isn\u2019t it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What is your Plan B&#8221;, I asked one founder.<br \/>\nHe said we will raise our next round funding as our growth rate is great.<br \/>\nOther than that he did not have right plan at that time.<br \/>\nHe is good at what he doe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}