I've seen several of your videos. Do you also invest and are you interested in fixing the seemingly perilous overall structure to investments? For example, if the product were to target the open problem of open source remuneration, and it happened to provide implementation mechanics that enabled an investment equivalent of open source (because it has to do with open collaboration + pay, which investment is one particular concrete use case), would that be interesting to you?

Excellent !!!!

Brett, I want to start a business selling the same herbal supplement that I have been taking for 12 years with great results. It balances hormones for both Men and Women. It has tons of success stories on KZfaq. Most people need it, but very few know it exists. What should I do? Start myself and get some sales, then seek investors. Or seek investors now.

Key Highlights for those who want to revise: 1. What is your exit strategy? - Investors know the potential exits for your startup, they want to understand whether you know it 2. Why won't existing players build what you're building? - You fail if you don't acknowledge that any large competitor has the ability to do what you're doing - It's cheaper for a large competitor to buy us than to build the technology themselves 3. But what would you do if they do enter your market segment? - If you say that they will not enter the market, then you are lost - If you say we can change strategies, you are lost again - This is our sole focus, we will fight to the death to win 4. What valuation are you expecting this round of funding? 1. In A Negotiation: Let the other side go first - You give a valuation too high and you scare the investor away - You give a valuation too low and you cost yourself money - You get it right - We'll let the market decide our valuation - I've seen companies like us are valued between X and Y 5. What keeps you up in the night? - Investors ask this question because you never know what you'll hear - I'm worried about recruiting the top talent, having said that, I'm confident enough of the existing team, that we continue to execute very well

No NDA, you must be crazy to give away your idea, way too many Unscrupulous investors that are out to steal ideas

I love your content!!! ❤

Are there not VC’s which primarily focus on pre seed and seed funding stage startups? I think I’ve read of some VC’s on this section.

hey brett, im making a product and my exit strategy is getting acquired, until then I will not have any revenue, how do I "convince" investors, what storytelling would you suggest would make potential investors have faith in me/my idea. Also, I requre some capital so is following SAFE framework to get investment from VCs a good idea? (seed round)

What if friends and family are not an option for early investors?

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Hi Brett! Very nicely presented topics! Thanks. But I have a question: In another video - "What You Should Never Say To An Investor", you say, it is a red flag to investor if you say that any financial plan or estimate is conservative. Yet in this video, you show us a LinkedIn financial plan which on the top of the second group column has "Conserviative Projections" title. So, how do you explain this discrepancy? LinkedIn plan looks realistic, I don't know, and it is a conservative projection. To tell or not to tell? The question is now? Thanks for any suggestions (maybe Linked in plan was just to show the main topics of an estimate? and we should disregard the naming of the second column group?) Thanks, anyway.

I am a 17 year old boy who has the goal of starting a unicorn company in the United States and this video was awesome. Thanks you.

Please fix your thumbnail, it's very coarse and you deserve better 🙂

Great insights

Anybody want to take a crack at putting a valuation number on Convochat?

Thank you for this❤

Really great

Very insightful. There's always more beyond the innocent-looking clauses in term sheets. Tranches and an investor refusing to take a board seat didn't appear sinister to me initially. These blow it for me. Thank you, sir.

Good And Very important notes

Thank you so much for this! The power dynamic of VC makes it very difficult for most founders to even broach this topic. I'm really glad you took this opportunity to share these critical insights.

Very important video

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thanks!

How do you tell, from "gut feel", whether a start up is going to survive or crash, in the first few months? Are there any telling indicators?

Damn, missed it again, I’m going to have to put the next one in my google calendar

Great content Brett So, when you raise a round of funding, everyone, including previous investors, gets diluted. Yes? Or can previous investor influence or object to terms in a new round of funding?

What about Angel investors?

Quick question on vesting, in my opinion, it's still not good for a founder to leave a company after 4 year of completing vesting. They may be leaving the company owning 50% of it. What safeguards are available for this? Can you agree that even after vesting, you still have to stick around, or the company will buy back the shares?

All alone in the bootstrap world

What color should company logo be is NOT question to be asked in democratic vote. This is something professionals need to provide 80% of input and 20% of management or CEO to make alone. Really! Making logo is not a piece of cake most of people even grasp how contstraintsful it is. I had case where there was basically graphics for logo but someone could not decide color and also could not decide if company name should be written in bold. And they made a vote. People's time should spent in more wise way. Anyone interested can look YT video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptSmaMx8p5jMnGg.html and see how democratically elected symbols worked out.

I had two partners like this. The sheer stupidity out there is astronomical.

What about Sales trait for the CEO

Shareing the Pitch Deck of Fundraising or Customer Pitch Deck to New recruits ? Or what

Really So good and Tips are so great 👍

So good 👍

Great! information ahead of time. Always have the schedules set and plan dates, planned out. Be proactive

so the money invested by the investors are paid back in terms of equity and no need of paying it back? Pls elaborate !!

100% AGREE! I'm not a fan of VC's, and would like to avoid them at all costs. We need to raise funding for a dozen manufacturing shops across the USA, so it's time to get creative with the financing. 🍷🍷😎

Well done, for your content creation

Well done, for your content creation

Excellent video

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