Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. it’s the most expensive dilution you’ll ever face. figure out roles.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 4, 2023
Joe Flanagan, Founder, 90s Fashion World No, Too Many Lenders While the idea of sourcing capital from multiple smaller sources is an enticing one, the reality is far less pleasant. Inbar Madar , Founder and Business Consultant, M.I. On the other hand, failing to raise the desired funds proves its limitations in the marketplace.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Besides the future potential earnings youre forgoing, youre also diluting your own ownership in the company. Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 13, 2015
Fail to appreciate what product management is--because you think that all you need is a technical co-founder to build something that people love. Thinking that PR alone is going to get you millions of users.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Be a salesman.
Rob Go
JUNE 10, 2013
Most other things that founders do are a waste of time. For some reason most founders are really bad at this one. Journalists like hearing directly from founders. If you hire PR people, resist their desire to control all the contact. It’s standard for founders to keep board control in the first round. Keep going.
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