Investor Tricks Against Founders
The cluster discusses an article on tactics investors use against startup founders, debating perspectives from both sides on negotiations, meetings, pivots, follow-on investments, and whether the advice benefits founders or investors.
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Have you considered that perhaps the investors have more information than you, or the founders have an insight that you don't have, or that this is not their final product?
Are you proposing that investors give money to founders without meeting them first?
It’s not cynical it’s the truth. Why else do you think investors give money to startups?
This was written for investors but curious to hear the POV from more founders
I've never heard of it happening. Insisting on such a thing would be a great way for investors to filter out good startups.
The truth to the "irony" is that those are the actual deals that investors want to invest in. This post is for the rest.If you are the hottest company on the market, none of this post applies to you. But 99.9% of the startups out there are not.I see a lot of people on this thread saying this guy is arrogant, etc., but I think that's taking it the wrong way. He's just providing his point of view, and it's not just his. Any investor would feel that way and this guy i
Good advice for investors, maybe - not for founders. Why would a founder turn down money?
Isn't the problem more that the investors are against this rather than the startup founders?
Investors' job does not stop with giving the money. Very often, on the contrary, they are the people who will help you with connections to next round investors, will help with IPO, etc. They will not do any of this if you don't do what they want :)
Why should you get free money from later investors?