Founders: What are your long term goals?

Let me ask you a real and honest question. If an investor arrived at your door today, offering you enough money to run your business for a year, including execution on all of your roadmap objectives, in exchange for a seat on your board, what would you do?

Before you answer that question, consider this. What are your long-term goals for YOU within your business?

What exactly are you doing here?

• Building a company with the intention to sell off as quickly as possible?

• Building a solution with the intention to sell off when you have ushered it through to adulthood? What does that look like to you?

• Building your life’s work, a company you want to lead until the end of time? Growing your baby and keeping it with you for both of your entire lives?

If you are unable to answer this question, then it’s important that you do not accept that ever enticing money.

We don’t have to say no, but we need to put them on ice until we are crystal clear on the goal for YOU.

Now would be a good time to book a call with me, I’ll help you figure this out!

Proceeding without knowing exactly what you are working towards could set a path that will only lead to heartbreak. When the goal is to build a solution that you can clearly envision, do you really want an investor breathing down your neck, pushing you in a direction counter to your goals? No! You don’t, not at all. Let’s talk about what you are building, identify your appetite for outside influence, and what this investor is really offering you. Their seat at the board means they will have a lot of input into what you are doing so let’s consider the chemistry you are inviting into your world before you proceed.

Now, you might not be in this position now. You may be dreaming of this exact situation so let’s get you ready to enter the conversation with clear goals for you before the dollar signs become a distraction.