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The Truth About Investor Updates

Haystack

Most folks who are not close to early-stage startups and new company formation would be surprised to discover that a high number of companies, after receiving funding from individuals or institutions, do not send updates to their investors. For me, I am pretty zen about this after six years of early-stage startup investment.

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

Both Sides of the Table

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. There’s another issue I can add to your list of things to be aware of – information rights.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. How are we doing? Eric] “The first user experience was actually terrible.&#