{"id":6318,"date":"2022-06-21T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:57:17","slug":"orphan-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/21\/orphan-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan founders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many young-age founders think raising early on from a tier 1 fund guarantees success against others. On the contrary, taking an early cheque from a tier 1 fund limits your option.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the things that will happen:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Your champion will leave the fund. You will become an orphan.<\/li><li>Not enough growth. You will be left to die slowly.<\/li><li>Tier 1 fund will not lead and throw a mixed signal to other incoming investors.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>What can founders do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Focus on fundamentals and not get carried away by who is on their CAP Table.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Focus on the team and building and delighting customers.<\/li><li>Avoiding noise, PR, and self-promotion.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many young-age founders think raising early on from a tier 1 fund guarantees success against others. On the contrary, taking an early cheque from a tier 1 fund limits your option.\u00a0 Some of the things that will happen:&nbsp; Your champion will leave the fund. You will become an orphan. Not enough growth. You will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/21\/orphan-founders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orphan founders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}