Fundraising & Equity
Protecting Your Startup from Strategic Investors
Collated by Harry Prabandham
Curated by Rubric Financial
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Strategic Investors Play a Different Game
- Corporate investors have strategic goals, not financial ones — your success is nice, but their success is required
- If competing with you helps them, they will — corporate VCs have shared confidential details with competitors, killing major deals
- Strategic investors aren't VCs — they're corporations with business units that may one day build exactly what you're building
- Your information asymmetry is your only advantage — guard it
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