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After building CodeSee, a venture backed startup for the past five years and seeing it through all the way to acquisition, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been sharing my learnings on fundraising, product management, and building an AI platform with founders, and now I’ve decided to make those learnings public. No one ever talks about how hard, lonely, and traumatic it can be. So I thought that I would sart First question: what are the top 3 most difficult decisions for a founder? The first is actually a spicy take. You might think it’s hiring or fundraising, but you’d be incorrect. I think the most difficult decision is deciding where to get your advice. Said another way, what advice do you keep and what advice do you follow. Most people have good intentions when it comes to giving advice (and the irony isn’t lost on me as I write to give advice). But as a first-time founder,?in the information age, information is abundant. There are many content creators, or people in general, who have never built a business before, let alone the type of business you are trying to create. Their goal is to make money for themselves. Despite being a totally valid strategy, that doesn’t mean that their advice will work for you. What worked for one business or an aggregate of companies won’t necessarily work for your business. The only thing that actually matters is building a product that can help a customer ‘continuously’ achieve a goal, measuring their success in achieving that goal, and repeating that success with other customers. Don’t let anyone’s advice complicate those 3 things. I’ll talk about 2 more over the coming days. What do you guys think are the most difficult decisions?

The not-so-exciting part? Many of them?won’t make it?past the first year. Even buzz-worthy startups that raised major capital (e.g.?Ghost Autonomy) have faltered. Startup?insolvencies?are at record high. But there’s a silver lining – with a high volume of business activity, there are opportunities to capitalize on either end of the spectrum. #salesclosing #marketing #technology #tech #salesleads #tips #marketers #linkedin #businesswriting #customerrelations

Ive been asked by many founders that How much equity should I give out to investor? Day 3 of daily dose of Strategy, Finance and Funding hacks for startup founders. Let’s make one thing clear: If you are a pre-traction startup, then this question has no correct answer. A founder’s worst mistake could be selling 20% of their company. Another’s best decision could be selling 70% of their company. SO, what to do? Understand your business: Ask these essential Questions. ?? What’s your First year user count target? ?? What percentage of those users will convert to paying users? ?? How much will you charge users?? ?? How many of your customers will keep using your platform? ?? By what rate should your users grow per month? Secondly, there are startups who have a similar market or product that you can learn from monitoring their data: - Growth - User base - Pricing - Team - Investments Raised Of course, you won’t be able to obtain all this data. But you’ll be able to get some of it. This way you will get a more clear picture of your startup? and? get a rough idea about how much equity to give out. #finattic - One stop solution for all the financial services to Scale your startup.

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Startups are hard - Persist or perish When you birth a new company and begin the 0 to 1 march, you need to be prepared for absolute chaos. You are trying to build all the various daily requirements for a business. Admin, financials, legal, customer delivery, and trying to convince customers to buy your product or service. Oh and did I mention that unless you are an investor backed startup you also have to figure out how to pay people to work on your startup while you build. That often means tradeoffs that aren't ideal. Team members working in your company as a side hustle. Team members working on your startup full-time but also trying to figure out how long they can hang-on financially. That is all assuming you as a founder aren't paying yourself, which is a whole other constraint. That means in a perfect situation you have lots of iteration. In the product, in the management of the business, and sometimes even your team. So be prepared to persist. It isn't always rainbows and unicorns. Just remember to enjoy the journey because if you are focused on the pot of gold at the end of that rainbow, I'll tell you from experience, it never seems to be as shiny and full as you hoped. Good luck building! I’m Sal. I build, fund and advise teams who impact the world. Got an idea and need some help? Reach out and say hello ??

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I think the best founders show self constraint when it comes to fundraising. They don't ask "Do I need money?" but instead they ask "Am I investable?" If fewer founders reached out before they were investable, VCs would respond to more cold emails. So, here are 5 things that really make a startup investable: 1) Finished Product I don't care if it's truly a MINIMUM viable product. If you have something that you can put in people's hands they'll have a much better idea of what it is you're building. 2) Strong Team You don't need to have 3 PhDs or 4 engineers from Google, but just having people who are up to the task at each role is a good sign. 3) Clearly Demonstrated Demand Sometimes founders try to mental gymnastic their way into proving demand. It should be easy to show that the demand is wide and deep through quantitative and qualitative methods. 4) A Working Go-to Market Everyone talks about obvious methods that may or may not work when it comes to growth, distribution, and marketing, but proof is critical here. 5) Long Term Viability + Scalability Investors' minds always go to "is this a high growth/high scale" OR "is this VC backable?". If they're asking those questions, you need to be more explicit in the vision of what your startup could be. Whenever I hear a founder say that they're waiting to raise when they hit a future milestone, I think much more highly of them AND am way more likely to introduce them to investors in my network.

Great points Jonny Boyarsky! About #2, I don't understand why people with entrepreneurial plans are so fixed on the idea of an MBA or PhD. I'm yet to meet the first person trying to close sales or raise money saying: "Yeah, this is my amazing product and btw, I'm a PhD"?? #funds #digitalassets #venturecapital #equity #privateequity #funding #pe #cvc #privateequity #blockchain #tokenization #rwa #investmentfunds #realworldassets

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You must have heard the word “Equity” but do you know about it? Equity: can be defined as the amount of money the owner of an asset would be paid after selling it and any debts associated with the asset were paid off. For example, if you own a home that's worth $200,000 and you have a mortgage of $50,000, the equity in the home would be worth $150,000. Who actually gets startup equity? There are four groups that typically get a portion of the startup pie: ? Co-Founders ? Advisors ? Investors ? Employees Every startup will offer equity to some combination of those four categories. But not every startup is going to offer equity to employees; not every startup is going to offer equity to advisors; and not every startup is going to take on investors. But it's a fair bet to say that all early-stage startups are going to have to figure out how to structure and portion out equity to the founders of the company How equity calculated? Shareholders' Equity = Total Assets - Total Liabilities