Good video from Craft Ventures on how to think about profitability and fundraising. Video is targeted to companies that have $20-30 million or more in revenue, but good comments on trade-off revenue growth, profitability, fundraising, and how preference shares can work when things don’t go well.
My take is that two type of companies have it easier, not necessarily easy, to raise capital: very high growth or profitable. So always try to be in one of those camps.