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6 Keys To Managing Funding From People Close To You

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Some founders are too focused on quick repayment, and they compromise strategic decisions. Loans are a safer option than equity.

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Founders Finding Funding From Friends May Be Fools

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Some founders are too focused on quick repayment, and they compromise strategic decisions. Loans are a safer option than equity.

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The Good The Bad And The Ugly Of Funding From Friends

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Some founders are too focused on quick repayment, and they compromise strategic decisions. Loans are a safer option than equity.

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Don’t Hurt Friends and Family Investors Who Love You

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Some founders are too focused on quick repayment, and they compromise strategic decisions. Tie payments to your cash flow.

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How To Take Money From Friends And Still Be Friends

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Some founders are too focused on quick repayment, and they compromise strategic decisions. Loans are a safer option than equity.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.