You prolly heard of Brook's law before:
adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
While that is, in Brook's words, a "outrageous oversimplification", it captures a lot value. And as with most things, taking a step back by generalzing it, yields some interesting results.
Consider the recommendation (see for example slide 46 here) that anyone with experience with venture capital funding will give you: Only take funding when you don't need it. In this context, you should use funding to grow a company that already works. If you need money just to keep it running, you might as well stop.
Kind of similar to Brook's law, isn't it? But still, its kind of unintuitive. Let's try another example: