[gumby]

> round composition

For my current company (self-funded for the past year, raising about the same size seed round now) I have a goal of 1/3 strategic partner, 1/3 customer, 1/3 professional investor. But I know if I get a professional investor(s) to cover more than 1/3, or all of the round I'll just take it and move on to the next task. Fundraising always takes too long and is too distracting to try to optimize on this scale at this point in time.

A strategic investor is extremely rare at the seed stage, and for many of the reasons that it is rare, it usually a problem when you do it. Our plan is a very special case...but still it's unlikely, despite expressed interest.