We raised money for the first time after five years of existence, once we had a clear picture of our market and customer traction.

Achieving a million dollars in crowdfunding was crucial for us to break into Silicon Valley and prove our success to investors.

I raised 1.6 million and obsessively built the company for three years, achieving 8.4X growth in one year, which led to a position where I didn't need the money when I went to raise again.

In 2008, I struggled to raise funds for Twilio due to the global financial meltdown, and many investors dismissed our developer service idea as foolish.

We raised our Series A on a prototype, which was challenging because many investors doubted our potential to become a public company.

The first million dollars I raised felt easy because I was raising money from people I knew well, who were investing in me personally.

We raised our Series A after initially facing many rejections, but ultimately secured $3-4 million from various investors.

We were confident about our startup, thinking we would get a lot of PR and funding, and we did receive significant media attention and raised $1.2 million in funding.

We calculated that we needed at least $100 million to make a smartphone, which was impossible to raise at the seed stage, and we faced rejection from factories like Foxconn.