Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. ” F**k.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.” Of course a lot of this also comes down to investor trust. You technically have more gas left but you never know if some unexpected circumstance causes you to run out of gas. Valuation.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. He would have found somebody technical and inspired that individual to work for equity or deferred payment. I said that was my point.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. I offered a second time to fund and even increased price a little bit.
Frank Addante
MAY 15, 2006
Even through all that, we had a very successful IPO - the offering share price went from $8 per share to $15 per share and we raised $112 million. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course). After getting the run around from the CEO, I was advised to take action to remedy the situation. What the hell did I know?
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