Steve Lord
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 7 Apr
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And, you know, one of the things we've also seen with some of our our founders is you know you're gonna have to raise money in a year, right?
The you built the product, the product's out there, it's it's okay.
You know, maybe it's growing a little bit, but you're not you haven't found the the secret yet.
It's not, you're not blowing the the doors off yet.
Talk to them early about pivoting.
I mean, if you if you feel like the business needs to go in a different direction to hit the kind of numbers that will enable that fundraising to happen and everybody to have the outcome you want, don't be afraid to do that.
They have the same interest in that outcome that you do.
So founders sometimes, you know, it's like with the equity market, you sort of fall in love with the stocks you buy.
Sometimes we've seen founders stick with the core idea a little longer.
Maybe then they should have.
And then they are on their back foot.
And now they're almost out of money.
Now they have to raise.
Now the business doesn't really have good metrics to show for it.
Now you're really in a in a tough place.
They they know, especially if you have the traditional sort of venture backing that well many of our clients do.
The investors on your cap table know more about raising money, probably, than you or your management team.
If you're a founder, listen to them.
They they will start telling you what's going to be doable in a year or eight months.
We had one client recently that finally closed a seed round.
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