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hmmm...not sure I agree that "you can't raise money for your startup and you aren't making enough to pay your employees, your business sucks".

When funding dries up, even good businesses have a very difficult time raising capital, and it's not uncommon for a "good" business to be unprofitable for a couple of years (or more) as it ramps up. (See Amazon, Twitter, etc.)

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When has Amazon or Twitter ever had any trouble raising cash?

I should have been more clear. What I meant by those example is that the companies were not profitable in their early years, and paying employees may have been difficult without the capital they had raised.

Well my point was that if you can't raise money and you aren't making profits, then your business sucks. That was poorly worded, but Amazon and Twitter never had a problem raising capital when they needed it because there was a huge amount of competition to get into them.

The companies that aren't profitable in their early years and simultaneously can't raise cash are screwed and probably shouldn't be funded in the first place.

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