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“I try not to ride the emotional wave of startup life like I sometimes did before” and other lessons from a second time founder

Hunter Walker

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? Next would be the fund itself: reputation, expertise (early stage vs. multi), and market experience (fintech/insurtech).

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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

As a corporate lawyer in private practice and in-house roles specialising in cross-border commercial and financial transactions, Maha has a solid reputation leading complex international corporate and commercial deals across multiple jurisdictions. This entails deploying a DevOps model in our first year of development.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

The key problem with existing technologies was adverse selection, specifically concerning the incentives of participants and the reputation systems: In the yellow pages, people wanted to be found but the way they represented themselves had nothing to do with how good they were. Steer into your investors’ objections. It has reputation.