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Changing Your Business Trajectory
Changing Your Business Trajectory
Boostphase is always interested in significant opportunities to affect the trajectory of a project or business. Please contact us at:
“The median growth-stage venture-backed company cannot go public at a valuation that returns capital to the late-stage investors.”
True. And this is a real problem.
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All the important discussions between founders and investors should happen BETWEEN board meetings. The actual board meeting should be (1) a fulfillment of legal requirements, and (2) a chance to have 2nd- and 3rd-tier managers present their work, and give them a chance to shine.
Most early stage founders are bad at board meetings. I was one of them!
Not because they lack effort, but because they think the job is to impress instead of to operate.
After 38 board meetings as a CEO, I learned the opposite lesson: the best board meetings feel boring,
I used to phrase it as:
Startup CEOs can’t share their troubles with their employees because they’ll quit.
They can’t share with their investors because they’ll get fired.
And they can’t share with their spouse because she will say “You never should have quit that job at the
@jackmmcclelland On the East Coast, if you make $10 million out of a deal, you disappear to your lake house with a Porsche and a pair of SUVs, and you’re never heard from again.
In Silicon Valley, if you make $10 million out of a deal, you’re still paying off your second mortgage and your first
talking to portfolio founder today about a $30M acquisition offer for his company, roughly 15x ARR. growth has been steady but not outstanding.
he asked “won’t you be upset that we didn’t go for $1B?”
my reply was that $15M (he owns about 50%) is a considerable sum for anyone,
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