[Thread] You get massive seed funding: What do you don’t do?

Lose your confidence. It happened to me. I raised a large seed round after a lot of struggle and hard work and basically doing everything myself. (I'm a full-stack hardware + software developer + sales + CEO) The moment, I raised my large seed round, everyone started telling me I need to bring in corporate people who will teach me how to run the show.
As it is, imposter syndrome is such a big deal for me!!! Basically, led to instant bloat and I ended up paying a lot of fancy people who in-turn hired more people. Now, I am back to doing their work myself.
My next round, I know exactly whom I want to get and it's definitely not going to be a corporate leader.

1. Build an office with a slide and 2 massage rooms
2. Company offsite to Ibiza
3. Cookers and hoke

Upgrade your ergonomics game by buying 1.2L rupee Steelcase chairs for the entire team

Take the team out for an ‘inspiring’ Vietnam offsite

Disappear

1. Focus on building your organic marketing channels now, SEO/ASO, it will give you long term benefits in terms of customer acquisition.
2. Don’t spend too much on paid acquisition. Do a thorough analysis on your ICP, and their most spent time(in terms of app and content), and accordingly you would be able to know what kind of communication would work for your ICP(rough idea).
3. Get PMs who had worked on similar product features before.
4. Don’t hire internal HRs, instead get HR consultants to work with you.
5. Work towards building a proper feedback loop channel(customer care). This helps a lot

Quite a few things other than what's already noted:

1. You don't create a "new" plan to spend all that money quickly in order to "show" huge traction/growth
2. You don't go overboard (2X) in giving salary hikes to the early team
3. You don't give a huge party to celebrate seed funding as if you hit a business milestone, no harm in a small celebration
4. You don't become a Startup Guru and waste time in industry meetings, you have not arrived till you have cracked a sustainable model for a profitable business

One thing you must do is meet those founders who have seen the journey from Seed to profits, and meet as many of them as you can. Nothing can beat the tribal knowledge.

Don't keep your funding money in Silicon valley bank.

A cheap international offsite after an year of the funding is actually feasible and should be adopted imo. You retain the good talent and it in turn helps you attract good quality freshers/young folks from tier 1. Two for the price of one.

I will FD it.