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so how relevant is this article for startups? Seems to me this is more for owners of mature companies. Or am I missing something?
by bignoggins 15y ago
so how relevant is this article for startups? Seems to me this is more for owners of mature companies. Or am I missing something?
- pyre 15y agoIt may be useful when you get to the point where your company is in the gray area between 'startup' and 'mature company.'
- pg 15y agoHardly at all. It was probably posted by mistake.
- tptacek 15y agoAre you sure the article didn't just flip the relevance bit for you when you read "investors are looking for good companies with low risk, not great companies with high risk"? The stuff in there about how earnouts are structured seems germane. I have friends who have sold tech startups where earnout structure was a material issue.
- cperciva 15y agoEven if this article isn't directly relevant to startups, I think it's useful to startup founders to see the type of games investors can play. Some people don't have the YC team making sure they don't get screwed.