Investor Connect Podcast

What You Should Do After You Sign the Check

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

An investor does a great deal of work before the investment is made and must also do work afterward.

Here are some key points to consider:

As an investor, you need to maintain contact with the startup.

Make sure there’s control over the compensation of the CEO.  

Their compensation is the exit and not the payroll.

Make sure the company has sufficient cash runway.

Losing too much runway can throw the company into a fundraise with ‘fire sale’ terms.

Monitor your list of what must be done from the diligence report to see how the company is progressing.

Keep those items on the top of the CEO list. 

Make sure the board remains focused on their duties and sees that they spend their time well.   

I’ve found many startup boards become co-complicit with the CEO and fail to maintain accountability for results.

Talk with other investors in the deal and share information as the startup may not keep everyone up to date consistently.


Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Dan Gonzales, Executive Producer and Host of Startup Mindsets Podcast.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2020,
Startup Mindsets has interviewed more than 50 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and innovation leaders since April 2020 and has inspired people to take entrepreneurial action across the world. Week in and week out they will dive into how founders across technology and innovation leaders think about running their business and why innovation now is more important than ever.

Dan was born and raised in San Francisco, California he completed his undergrad at UC Riverside and worked at various startups and corporations including Flux Technology and Google. 

He’s worked as a venture capital analyst at VU Venture Partners, a $100M fund in San Francisco, and led investments in the frontier tech space. Some deals he’s been a part of are Akash Systems, Fan Controlled Football, Contraline, and CreditStacks. 

Dan discusses the “great resignation”, the long-term implications of remote work, producing and hosting a podcast, and more.

You can reach out to Dan at startupmindsets@gmail.com and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/dangonzales1.

Listen to Startup Mindsets Podcast at www.startupmindsets.com/, visit their LinkedIn page at www.linkedin.com/company/startupmindsets/, and contact them on Twitter at www.twitter.com/startupmindsets

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For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org  

Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ 
For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ 
For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ 
For eGuides check out: https://tencapital.group/education/ 
For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/  

For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group   

Please follow, share, and leave a review.

Music courtesy of Bensound.

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