Having your own start-up is a dream that inspires college grads, seasoned professionals and serial entrepreneurs alike. Highly creative ideas solving real life problems, opening new markets, designing new products and solutions and the joy and pride of making an impact. But it’s never easy. The entrepreneur deals with many challenges: product creation, customer validation, supply chain, talent, pricing and very importantly making sure it has enough money to survive experiment and grow. The latter remains an ongoing need, irrespective of whether the company has yet to raise funds for the first time or has successfully raised many rounds of financing