Steve Lord
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 7 Apr
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Yes.
Is you have to be ready to have that conversation.
So don't wait until the term sheet comes across your
your email to start worrying if your books are closed and if your right cap table is correct and all that because you're if it if it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, but if that consolidation wave does show up and you are a startup that's got some marketplace, you might get that call.
And you you want to be able to have the conversations quickly.
So it's it's just a good good word to the wise anyway, but especially coming into the new year, this new year, I think it's worth mentioning that startup founders need to be ready to have a
You know, a transaction conversation really all the time.
If your books haven't been closed in a couple of months.
You as a founder, you need to get on that.
Always be closing, right?
You you mentioned tax.
That's a great call out because this time of year is when a lot of founders go, Oh yeah, tax.
That's a big deal and that will shoot your diligence process dead if you have screwed up on the taxes.
Yeah.
Sales tax, franchise taxes in Delaware.
All that stuff comes up and it takes time and money to fix.
I start getting these things happening the way I expect.
I I really do feel
It's just you know, it's like anything.
It's you you can be right but early.
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