“he gave me the angel funding it was 330K but it gave me enough of like assurance that okay we could at least have a couple years of runway to try this new business”

Raise a Small Angel Round to Buy Runway Not to Validate the Business

Lane was earning $200K total comp with a second child on the way when he considered going full-time on a business making $2K per month. Rather than betting everything, he pitched a former CFO and secured $330K in angel funding — not to prove the idea worked, but to de-risk the leap personally. The money bought time, not a signal.