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Two investment deals are on the table. Which do you sign?

The Startup Toolkit

Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. Next, we check that we’re safe from any particularly onerous terms like participation preferred. 90% investor product vision. The latter means products, analytics, optimisations, and developers. Conveniently local. What’s the dilution? Looks good.

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Two investment deals are on the table. Which do you sign?

The Startup Toolkit

Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. Next, we check that we’re safe from any particularly onerous terms like participation preferred. 90% investor product vision. The latter means products, analytics, optimisations, and developers. Conveniently local. What’s the dilution? Looks good.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. I know because I’ve been there. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die.

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