Should You Start a Company Alone? Solo Founders, VC vs Bootstrapping & Startup Reality

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Welcome back to the Two Founders Podcast!

Solo founding is on the rise, with numbers almost doubling from 18% in 2016 to 36% in 2025, but is it a good idea? Anna dives into this statistics and investigates the success rates of solo founding teams.

Matteo dives into the math behind VC decisions. If you succeed you need to multiply their investment by 20. So if you only triple you are not considered a success case for them. He also talks about bootstrapping vs VC founding. What is the better decisions for you and your startup today?

LinkedIn Nugget: You need to raise at least $2B to play if you want to join the AI game today.

Q&A: Our listener is doing a sale through a middleman contact, but the deal is not moving forward. What should they do?

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