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> Every investor you take on is there for life and has a unique set of goals. The advice they give you is bent towards those goals You just made the assumption
by elastic_church 10y ago
> Every investor you take on is there for life and has a unique set of goals. The advice they give you is bent towards those goals
You just made the assumption that they will have a say at all! Non-voting shares are in vogue!
- jonwachob91 10y agoNon-voting shares don't save you from the emails/phone calls of naive/ignorant/stupid investors.
- cmdrfred 10y agoNo, your secretary/answering service does.
- jonwachob91 10y agoWhile I understand the spirit of your posts, I've learned the hard way that treating investors with less than the respect they deserve is a sure fire way to shoot yourself in the foot. They are often times the first and fastest method to raising additional capital when in a pinch. Naive investor or not.
- cmdrfred 10y ago>treating investors with less than the respect they deserve Is not having a direct line 24/7 less respect than a investor deserves? Especially one who was invested only a few hundred dollars?
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- JumpCrisscross 10y agoFrom FINRA, Delaware law and the SEC's perpsrictive, no. If you are not lawfully forthcoming the sanctions and fines will come on swiftly and heavily.
- stcredzero 10y agoHow's this for a good way to evaluate a startup while looking for employment at one: Do they talk crap about investors?
- anigbrowl 10y agoHaving seen how you talk about your investors casually, I'm in little hurry to join their number.
- anigbrowl 10y agoHaving seen how you talk about your investors casually, I'm in little hurry to join their number.
- elastic_church 10y agoso much FUD around crowdfunding from people that don't know how it works or how to mitigate problems Everything from the idea of "annoying peons", to the idea of VCs balking at a warped cap table even though the crowd can be grouped together as one Self limiting.
- ceejayoz 10y agoThis would seem to be a solved problem for publicly traded companies.
- jonwachob91 10y agoInvesting $250K in a seed round startup buys you a lot more equity stake than buying $250k of stock in Apple. Publicly traded companies solve this problem by the virtue of their size.
- ceejayoz 10y agoThe article is talking about numbers being "a couple of thousand dollars". If you're gonna put $250k in you're probably not going through Indiegogo.
- Animats 10y agoThe New York Stock Exchange used to prohibit listing shares where there was more than one class of stock. (The only exception was Ford, which predated that rule.) We need that back.