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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” Grow or die.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? Why should I be? You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt?

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. Some finance guy said "12k a month minimum" and someone replied "I must be living in abject poverty" and its true. more) Sign up for free to read the full text.

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