Mrknete na reakce jinych zakladatelu firem z USA, kteri mi davali rady, kdyz jsem posuzoval jednu venture kapital investici. Ty reakce jsou takove, jake jsou. Jsou to zkusenosti od lidi, kteri necim podobnym prosli. Jen takove utruzky.
Well congratulations on what you have achieved. It is not for me to question what you guys want to do, but are you SURE you want to do this? I am on my third company now. Two of them VC backed, and one that boot strapped and was sold early.
Your life is going to change in a major way if you take this money. Board members that will most likely add no value, and get in the way instead of being of any use. Games related to control and preferential positions, and if things ever go bad firing you and others in the company. Decisions are going to get more complicated, and you need to now answer to people that may or may not have a clue.
Hate to sound so negative on the VC experience, but by far my happiest business experience was the bootstrap. My Utopia now would be a company that never needs venture money, and you guys sound like you are there. Be very careful before you trade that world for the one with VC’s in it.
Great problem to have, congratulations. agree that the valuation is too low, and it’d seem like you’d have opportunity to pull money out via dividend to share holders. not sure about tax policy on divdends in our neighbor to the north, but that’d be my suggestion. a corporate attorney should be able to help think through options.
I’m sure they’d LOVE to get a $xx valuation — that’s what you’d expect from a conventional, no-growth type of company that’s never going to get any bigger! Seriously, for a valuation they are off by a significant multiple.
Za posledniho pul roku jsem prosel velmi intenzivnim rychlokurzem o investicich a venture kapitalu. Hodne casto na me VC a Private Equity investori udelali nejdrive dobry dojem. Ale pak se jim ho podarilo pokazit pri vyjednavani. Prisel jsem vecer domu a rikal jsem si: Chci vubec mit takove lidi ve firme a travit s nimi cas? Chci chodit na board meetingy a vysvetlovat neco, co mi pripada naprosto jednoduche a srozumitelne. Chci obhajovat proc veci delame tak, jak je delame? A mit strach, ze jejich veto pro rozhodovani o dulezitych vecech udela z meho zivota peklo. Chci se dohadovat o valuaci, kdy VC nechape, ze za pul roku nebo rok diky nasemu rustu ta valuace vypada naprosto jinak. Co jsem z toho vyvodil za zaver, jste si asi domysleli sami. Zadnou investici do Shipito jsem neohlasil.
Nekolikrat jsem byl velmi blizko, abych se domluvil. Dokonce jsem mel i nabidku na odprodej vetsiny firmy a ty castky me nejdrive ohromily. Ale to nadseni a ohromeni za chvili vyprchalo a byl jsem zpet nohama na zemi. Mel jsem pocit, ze kazdy ma nejakou agendu. Ze se snazi vytahat informace, ale zaroven neni ochoten je davat.
Samozrejme jsem mel luxus si takto vybirat. Kdybych penize skutecne potreboval tak bych uz nejaky kompromis udelal. Ale jsem rad, ze mam tu svodobu se rozhodnout jak chci.





















