{"id":527,"date":"2018-12-13T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:04:02","slug":"jumo-raises-12-5-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/jumo-raises-12-5-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"JUMO Raises $12.5 mill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JUMO raised $12.5 million to take our total fundraising to over $105 million.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a remarkable <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">achievement,<\/g> and a testament to the ability and work ethic of everyone I work with at JUMO.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A big part of running a startup is fundraising, and especially in <g class=\"gr_ gr_340 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"340\" data-gr-id=\"340\">Africa<\/g> I see startup CEOs spending the majority of their time on raising money instead of focusing on the product.\u00a0 Some people think it should be the other way around, but I disagree.\u00a0 I think if a CEO can build a team around her that she trusts and that can execute her vision, the most value she can add is giving her team the runway it needs to succeed.\u00a0 I want to build that skill one day.\u00a0 I hope I get the chance to.\u00a0 For now, I&#8217;m happy I have a CEO who does.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUMO raised $12.5 million to take our total fundraising to over $105 million.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a remarkable achievement, and a testament to the ability and work ethic of everyone I work with at JUMO.\u00a0\u00a0 A big part of running a startup is fundraising, and especially in Africa I see startup CEOs spending the majority of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}