Many entrepreneurs think they should raise money, just because they see it in the press. That is the wrong way to go about. You should raise money for a specific reason.

YOU WILL MAKE FRIENDS AND CONNECTIONS THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME

The friends you will make just stay with you forever. There is a certain bond that connects you. It takes an entrepreneur to understand what another entrepreneur goes through. We tend to all stick together and the bond that is formed is very deep. It's also a very small world when it comes to the tech entrepreneurship ecosystem in India. Everyone is at most 3 degrees of separation away. A lot of people will give up along the way and find out entrepreneurship is not for them. If you stick around long enough, the pool shrinks, and the people who began their career around the same time as you have advanced far along too.