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How Many Investors are Too Many?

Both Sides of the Table

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. And I always encourage entrepreneurs to do reference checking. The most tempting thing to do in a financing is to find two investors to split a deal. I love that.

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Japan’s EdgeCortix Closes $20 Million Funding Round, Collaborates with Renesas Electronics

AsiaTechDaily

Leading this financing endeavor were Japan’s venture capital firm, SBI Investment Co. This approach adopted a software-first strategy. More from Asia Tech Daily: Breaking Barriers: Japan’s Startups Embrace Cryptocurrency Capital Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol. Sakyasingha Dasgupta.

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Turn your startup’s pricing strategy into a powerful growth lever

TechCrunch

How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Getting it right requires input from many perspectives: product, operations, finance, and sales, to name just a few. Here’s a closer look at the questions we ask to begin laying the foundation for a pricing strategy. Michael Perez. Contributor.

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How to Scale Nuclear Power

Andreessen Horowitz

There are complex reasons for this, but at a high level, the success of nuclear power is much more about project management, financing, and policy than it is cutting-edge engineering or safety. Today, our nuclear fleet is among the oldest in the world, with an average reactor age of approximately 40 years. Below, we dispel two major myths.

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Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

Y Combinator

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. The process still looks the same, however.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. Decision framework. ? option grants). T-18 days. ?

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

TechCrunch

It is difficult to quote a specific number for salary, as that is a combination of the level of financing the company has raised, the experience of the CEO, and their financial obligations. How much salary should the CEO of a pre-revenue startup take? Would you back a founder who has a second job?