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A comment on Ask HN: Potential investor wants to partner for equity.

Re:Ask HN: Potential investor wants to partner for equity by curious_curios on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:16AM (#40341882)
The main thing I’d be wary of is the fact that 9-12 months is not a long time in the startup world. Are you sure you’re going to have product-market fit and have a mature enough product to actually sell in that time? There’s a reason why vesting schedules are ~4 years.

What happens when he leaves and suddenly your metrics plateau because he was the only one selling the platform? Is he going to bring in and train a revenue organization in that time too?

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Re:Ask HN: Potential investor wants to partner for equity by RichardDL on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:01AM (#40342314)
Those are great points to consider. What happens afterwards. Thank you

To give more context, we have a product with few paying customers, 1k MMR. We have been building for 1 year now. Far from product market fit. The sales have been a lot slower than expected so far.

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