{"id":7553,"date":"2024-04-03T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:20:31","slug":"race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/03\/race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Time and again, I have to remind my founder friends that building on VC money is different from building bootstrap way. Raising from others, you are accountable and have to progress at a certain pace. The progress of company investor&#8217;s incentives are hard aligned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expectations of the founder and investor need to be aligned. I think this education needs to be imparted by friends and early angel investors to entrepreneurs. The VC money is on a tight schedule to deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a founder, you need to run like a racehorse and build a team of lieutenants who will go all cylinders firing from the start. You are on a clock set by investors. Your investors are on the clock to deliver the returns to their LPs or close the current fund vehicle completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BKartRed\">Karthik<\/a> wrote long back about<a href=\"https:\/\/blumeventures.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/16\/the-incremental-entrepreneur-is-not-ours-to-chase\/\"> same long back <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again, I have to remind my founder friends that building on VC money is different from building bootstrap way. Raising from others, you are accountable and have to progress at a certain pace. The progress of company investor&#8217;s incentives are hard aligned. The expectations of the founder and investor need to be aligned. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/03\/race-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Race&#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":[100,3,121],"tags":[1240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553"}],"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=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}