Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Because you have a unitary focus on financing your company or you die you seem not to miss a beat in thinking about the last meeting and the funder has been whipsawed in 20 directions. everything.
Rob Go
JUNE 17, 2014
In my last post about raising seed vs. jumping straight to A, I received a good comment from Chris Woods that my analysis neglected to include the impact of option pools that are created at each financing round. Essentially, the new investor wants there to be a certain % of options available to employees after they invest.
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www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Finance | Tuesdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Consider whether or not youll be raising financing down the road. Start-up | Mondays. Franchises.
Pascal's View
JULY 9, 2017
When it comes time to convert the notes, these entrepreneurs face ‘sticker shock’ about their post-financing ownership. They do not recognize that they may have already contractually sold a meaningful portion of equity in their company. That’s only one result of mismanaged expectations dating back to when the notes were issued!
Hunter Walker
MAY 7, 2014
Founder Mindset : Lastly asking about your hiring plan and future org chart tells me a bit more about how you’re approaching leadership. Unless you’re purely a business founder we want to see product vision and leadership on the founding team, not hired on. A bloated org full of fancy titles and layers of management?
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