View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

Now many Founders face a situation where they have raised a pre-seed or seed round from a multitude of investors (both angels and institutional groups) on SAFEs or convertible notes — without a term-driving lead investor who serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Download Board Deck Template.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? ” and if anybody gives you a specific number I would be a bit skeptical because there is no universal answer.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

The needs of the lead investor for ownership? A round that is most accommodating for the existing investors while allowing you to get new people involved? This framework helped narrow the field for us a lot, and from there deal terms were probably the next most important thing.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Our digital platform (ICAS®) is designed for healthcare operators on a mission to modernize the way they design, build and operate their healthcare facilities. So, our pathway to the right stakeholders has really been through our Customer Engagement Framework. This has been a big step forward for us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Really the decision was made over a period of about two days to just suspend all operations and focus everything on COVID. I, before Curative, worked on a company called Shield that operated a CLIA lab for about two years. That's a framework that's really important to me, and it's something that we've talked about a lot.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Analogies are a conceptual framework, so they’re not going to be 100% accurate. However, so many entrepreneurs try to pitch by analogy that some investors have fatigue when they see it. Even though we glossed over those slides, investors knew they could come back to those slides later and dig into them if necessary.

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