[sokoloff]

> You don't really need advice about funding from anyone, just look at some successful companies and see what they did. Funding is one of the few aspects where you can mimic your startup idols because it's public info.

Survivorship bias, anyone? You can look backwards at all the success stories. That tells less than 1% of the story, though. What about all the failed companies that did the same thing as the successes? What about all the factors that were irrelevant to success, yet apparent in the success stories?

> The fact is, all the biggest unicorns had enough promise and brains behind them to retain majority ownership

Isn't that pretty close to saying, "All the successful unicorns had apparent qualities of successful unicorns along the way"? How do I become tall? Ensure the top of your head is far away from your feet.