Having one founder take fundraising meetings avoids real-time negotiations
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Founders should be cautious even when potential series A investors have great reputations and work fast to provide termsheets 1 0 2and
Having one founder take fundraising meetings avoids real-time negotiations 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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Founders may increasingly be able to resist turning into managers 1 0 2The behavior of investors is often opaque to founders 1 0 2Fundraising is distracting and can halt other operations in a startup 1 0 2If you have multiple founders, pick one to handle fundraising so the other(s) can keep working on the company 1 0 2The founder who handles fundraising should be the CEO 1 0 2Even if there are still one or more founders focusing on the company during fundraising, growth will slow 1 0 2What happens to the company during fundraising affects the outcome 1 0 2Some founders deliberately schedule a handful of lame investors first, to get the bugs out of their pitch 1 0 2Investors may pressure founders to stop raising money until they commit to them 1 0 2Understanding founder mode could significantly improve founders' effectiveness 0 0 2