Office Hours with Vela Wood

Preparing for Funding Ep3: Friends and Family Funding – Recut

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Office Hours is our podcast covering general issues related to small businesses and startups. Preparing For Funding is a series of Office Hours episodes hosted by VW Partners Kevin Vela and Rad Wood about getting your company’s legal house in order before taking on funding. We are recutting this series to reflect updates in law and venture trends in the last 5 years to better help you navigate through preparing for funding.

In this episode, we discuss how to structure a Friends & Family Round to avoid risks that affect later-stage financing rounds.

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  • 1:00 – Why People Invest
  • 3:25 – Risks of Early-Stage Investors
  • 4:50 – Security Considerations in Early-Stage Rounds
  • 7:26 – Lego Brick Theory
  • 8:46 – Early-Stage Round Financing Options 
  • 11:13 – Runaway Valuations
  • 16:17 – Keep Your Investors Updated
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