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Nobody ever _wants_ to raise money. You raise money when you _can_ or when you _have to_, in that order. If you're Slack or one of a very tiny number of other startups that are vastly successful because they hit it out of the park on every metric, money raises itself at a price you can't turn down. For everyone else, you raise when you can, or when you have to. And it's not always pretty, because if the future was risk free, you wouldn't be running a startup.