{"id":1986,"date":"2026-05-22T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/22\/everyone-says-you-need-product-market-fit-to-raise-money-heres-why-thats-actually-tr\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:11:04","slug":"everyone-says-you-need-product-market-fit-to-raise-money-heres-why-thats-actually-tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/22\/everyone-says-you-need-product-market-fit-to-raise-money-heres-why-thats-actually-tr\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone says you need product-market fit to raise money. Here&#8217;s why that&#8217;s actually tr&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone says you need product-market fit to raise money. Here&#039;s why that&#039;s actually true. I&#039;ve seen countless founders with &quot;clear vision, strong team, massive market&quot; crash and burn. Smart investors bet on traction, not just potential. Revenue talks, everything else walks.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2057838932315013295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone says you need product-market fit to raise money. Here&#039;s why that&#039;s actually true. I&#039;ve seen countless founders with &quot;clear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}