Funding
What to look for in investors?
How to get funding
Continuous fundraising
Hidden dilution
Cap table nightmares
Bootstrapping vs. investor money
Getting funding is easy
Batman and Robin funding model
Purpose ‘n Clarity -podcast
We talk about startup life, the good, the bad, the insight, the experiences, the mistakes, the failures and everything between. The focus is on practical tips and tools to help you build your company from an idea stage, bootstrapping to investor funded growth companies.
We share everyday decision-making knowledge, situation and views so that you as a founder or CEO can avoid some of the mistakes and hardship along the way.
You can find more information at www.purposenclarity.com.
When do you approach investors, what’s your opening line? How are you telling your story and setting the expectations?
Startup books
Learn from other founders – Talks with Petri
Petri follows his curiosity and shares his talks with people building the future. The show explores personal discoveries and experiences with lessons learned. The real-talk conversations go deep where the purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.
Visit https://talkswithpetri.com for episode notes.
Ahti Heinla talks about building companies that impact a massive amount of people, how even successful founders struggle and fail at times but also what’s the right approach to build a business case. He also reveals how his company managed to pull off something that a tier-one VC told to be impossible.
See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/ahti.
Guest bio
Ahti Heinla is the co-founder and CTO of Starship Technologies which is the world’s leading company creating local delivery robots. In 2002, he was part of the founding team of Skype and was the company’s Chief Technical Architect for the first five years. In 2008, Ahti helped to mobilise 3% of the population to clean Estonia’s forests in a day.
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Videos
Startup funding
Building your company (strategy, management, leadership)
Adapting to change in the 2020s
