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It is ALWAYS more difficult than it looks. --- o0o ---   🖐🏻 I am Raymond. Founders hire me to make their companies more investable.   Do you want to: ➡ avoid unnecessary pain? ➡ stand out from the others? ➡ look great to your investors? ➡ shave time off due diligence? ➡ eliminate risk and close the deal? ➡ get back to growing your business?   📞 If you would like to chat, just reach out.

Great insights shared by my colleague Andrew Secker on the panel at the Crafty Counsel High Growth VC day regarding navigating down rounds. His key takeaways were to think about messages, own the narrative, consider what might need to change and what do we need to deliver to get back on track. These are important considerations for any business facing a down round. Thank you Andrew, Peter Orlov and the anonymous investor for sharing your expertise! #EmploymentLaw #CraftyCounsel #HighGrowthVC #BusinessStrategy

What's the key to being a great syndicator that investors trust year after year? Vinney Chopra says it's simple - fiduciary accountability. -Vet each deal thoroughly yourself first -Make conservative projections -Have fixed processes for oversight This episode of Abundance Mindset breaks down Vinney's playbook for inspiring confidence across 500+ investors with $300M+ in funded deals. Learn exactly how this icon puts together solid business plans that give his capital partners peace of mind. 🤝 #multifamily #realestateinvesting #abundancemindset

What's the key to being a great syndicator that investors trust year after year? Vinney Chopra says it's simple - fiduciary accountability. -Vet each deal thoroughly yourself first -Make conservative projections -Have fixed processes for oversight This episode of Abundance Mindset breaks down Vinney's playbook for inspiring confidence across 500+ investors with $300M+ in funded deals. Learn exactly how this icon puts together solid business plans that give his capital partners peace of mind. 🤝 #multifamily #realestateinvesting #abundancemindset

Please, please, stop spending thousands of dollars on legal fees for things you don't need. Had a founder come into my office the other day and tell me they spent $8k on incorporation, bylaws, and a cap table. I have no clue how that happens. Here's the deal- at the end of the day, lawyers are service providers. Some of them are awesome, but some of them are going to scare you into buying things from them you don't need or can easily find elsewhere for less. If you're starting a company, I recommend using Gust for incorporation, governance, equity, compliance, cap table, etc. This is def not an paid ad (LOL), their product is actually that good and its saved founders I know from making a ton of costly mistakes (or paying lawyers too much). Also Peter Swan is local and always down to answer questions or help. A couple weeks ago, he was on a panel with Brian Dailey, Mike Rosengarten, and Jason Moore about divvying up equity. We dug into all the boring, but very important topics. Give it a listen. https://lnkd.in/gf9DMgWA

At Crimson Jay Executive Search Partners, many of our clients are backed by institutional investors. How valuable is the time of a institutional investor? Well for some, it's $2,500 for 30 minutes. I'm curious if anyone out there has seen this new practice? Link in comments. #privateequity #venturecapital #executivesearch #consulting

𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 Today, I want to share a little about our CEO and Founder, Coble Jorgensen. (She also happens to be my wife, so I might be a smidge biased here). Coble majored in Psychology at Harvard, dabbled in pre-med, interned in i-banking, real estate, neuroscience and the state department, practiced estate planning and probate litigation, volunteers as a mediator, and serves on numerous boards. She has always been an active investor and served in many fiduciary roles prior to founding Cap Six, but she NEVER worked in asset management. Personally, I think that’s a feature, not a bug…perhaps her biggest strength on our team. While Rachel Gilbert and I spent years immersed in the asset management industry eager to revolutionize it from within, we still come to Cap Six with industry-embedded perspectives. Coble, on the other hand, brings a fresh, common-sense investor viewpoint that keeps us grounded and innovative. Diversity of thought is incredibly important for any business, and it is desperately needed in asset management. Coble’s varied background gives her a unique lens through which she views our business. Her experience across multiple disciplines means she isn’t confined by traditional industry thinking. She questions the status quo and brings a fresh perspective that’s crucial for our mission to deliver outstanding results for our clients. I’m posting a pic from our wedding party in 2009. I didn’t know I was marrying my business partner. She didn’t know she was 🎶 "looking for a man in finance, without a trust fund, 5'10", brown eyes," 🎶 but she got one anyway. 😂 #InvestmentManagement #Diversity #Innovation #CapSix #Leadership #WomenInFinance #WomenOwnedBusiness 💼💪

How do you turn potential investors into committed shareholders? We caught up with Irwin's, co-founder and COO, Mark Fasken, to get his take on investor engagement best practices, why focusing on the right investors at the right time is crucial for success and the importance of setting realistic goals. Click here https://lnkd.in/eQcNiAR9 to watch the full interview with real-world examples from Mark's discussions with IR professionals!

Starting at the end. A common subject last week in meetings with founders, investors and advisors was the advantage gained by thinking about the ideal exit for a business from the outset of its creation. Teams that do so are clearer on the: 1. type of capital to raise (or if raising makes sense at all) 💰 2. team structure to build 👯 3. timeline to deliver the dream ⏲ Having those conversations with your co-founder / investor / life partner / self both early and often is rarely a bad idea.

Question: When are Fish and Chips bad? Answer: During due diligence When you just want to close the deal, you do not want the due diligence process to be a fishing expedition. 🐟 🐠 🐡 And you don’t want every question to chip away value from the deal. 🍟 I remember celebrating the biggest deal with a special fish and chips meal. ✨ But please, no fish and chips before closing the transaction. --- o0o ---   🖐🏻 I am Raymond. Founders hire me to make their companies more investable.   Do you want to: ➡ avoid unnecessary pain? ➡ stand out from the others? ➡ look great to your investors? ➡ shave time off due diligence? ➡ eliminate risk and close the deal? ➡ get back to growing your business?   📞 If you would like to chat, just reach out.