Feel the Boot
by Feel the Boot
Feel the Boot delivers advice and experience to entrepreneurs, helping them create and grow successful businesses. We help founders go from overwhelmed entrepreneur to successful CEO.
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75. Surviving a Short Runway. Startup burn rate < 6 months cash
13m · PublishedLow on cash with no imminent funding?
Here’s how to keep your startup alive
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When things get tough and cash is short, you need to manage your startup cash flow to survive. If things are particularly difficult, you might be forced to pivot or sell the company.
Lance Cottrell has been an active startup advisor and startup mentor for over a decade.
He has helped countless startups navigate the key decisions of their journey, like when to take venture capital investment and negotiating term sheets.
He works with many companies in accelerators like Y Combinator and Founder Institute.
He provides help with startup funding including raising venture capital and angel investment.
He can help you achieve liquidity for your company at a high valuation.
Feel the Boot is a startup vlog of tips and advice for early-stage founders.
74. What is a Cap Table? Tracking VC Investments and stock option grants
19m · PublishedWhat is a Cap Table? 🧐 Tracking VC Investments and stock option grants
Understand startup capitalization, preferred stock, and angel investments
Track ownership, options, SAFE, Convertible Notes, and dilution.
Startup equity and cap tables can be confusing to many founders.
The CEO needs to understand startup equity well enough to talk to their lawyers and negotiate with investors. This episode will teach you all you need to know.
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Lance Cottrell has been an active startup advisor and startup mentor for over a decade.
He has helped countless startups navigate the key decisions of their journey, like when to take venture capital investment and negotiating a termsheet.
His advice and mentoring can supplement or replace startup accelerators or startup incubators like Y Combinator.
He provides help with startup funding including raising venture capital and angel investment.
He can help you achieve liquidity for your company at a high valuation.
Feel the Boot is a startup vlog of tips and advice for early-stage founders.
73. When your startup hits hard times: quit, pivot, or persevere?
11m · PublishedStartup Survival 🤕 Quit, Pivot, or Persevere
When your startup hits hard times what should you do?
Make this high stakes decision with confidence
When your startup is in a dark place with no path forward, what should you do?
This episode explores how to analyze your options objectively to choose the best option for you and your startup.
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Lance Cottrell has been an active startup advisor and startup mentor for over a decade.
He has helped countless startups navigate the key decisions of their journey, like when to close their startup vs. persevere or pivot.
His advice and mentoring can supplement or replace startup accelerators or startup incubators like Y Combinator.
He provides help with startup funding including raising venture capital and angel investment.
He can help you achieve liquidity for your company at a high valuation.
Feel the Boot is a startup vlog of tips and advice for early-stage founders.
72. Get more value from your startup advisors
9m · PublishedStartups 🧐 business advisor value
Get more value from your startup advisors
How to use mentors more effectively
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In this episode I share best practices for working with your advisors and mentors.
Advisors should be more than just a pretty face on your pitch deck. You give them equity, so you should maximize their value to you.
Advisors can help you with startup funding, angel investors, venture capital, pitch decks, growth hacking, startup marketing, product sales, PR, mergers and acquisitions, and more.
Lance Cottrell has been an active startup advisor and startup mentor for over a decade.
His advice and mentoring can supplement or replace startup accelerators or startup incubators like Y Combinator.
He provides help with startup funding including raising venture capital and angel investment.
He can help you achieve liquidity for your company at a high valuation.
Feel the Boot is a startup vlog of tips and advice for early-stage founders.
71. How to get startup mentoring and advising at Feel the Boot
3m · PublishedFeel the Boot 🤓 Mentoring & Advising
How our free mentoring office hours work
Establishing formal advising relationships
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Lance Cottrell has been an active startup advisor and startup mentor for over a decade.
His advice and mentoring can supplement or replace startup accelerators or startup incubators like Y Combinator.
He provides help with startup funding including raising venture capital and angel investment.
He can help you achieve liquidity for your company at a high valuation.
Feel the Boot is a startup vlog of tips and advice for early-stage founders.
70. High valuations can demotivate employees and derail investment
11m · PublishedIn this episode I explain why a very high valuation can cause trouble for your startup.
It can demotivate your employees by hurting their payout at exit.
It can derail your next funding round my making your last investors hostile and demanding.
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69. When to sell your startup? ♂️ Equity and Valuation vs. Risk
13m · PublishedWhen to sell your startup? 🤷♂️ Equity and Valuation vs. Risk
When should you take an offer for your startup?
What is the risk of continuing vs. the immediate reward?
It is critical to consider if and at what price you would consider selling your company before the offer arrives. When it does, the big $$$ may muddle your thinking.
In this episode, I discuss how to systematically analyze these questions and share my experiences selling my first company.
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68. How to recruit the perfect advisors (or directors) for your startup
9m · PublishedRecruit startup advisors 👨🦳 board of directors
Your advisors can make or break your startup
Learn how to identify and recruit the perfect startup advisory board
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In this episode I share a step by step method for building a startup advisory board or board of directors. You will learn how to identify and recruit advisors.
Advisors can help you with startup funding, angel investors, venture capital, pitch decks, growth hacking, startup marketing, product sales, PR, and more.
67. Blitzscaling vs. the 4 hour work week – choose the kind of company you want to create and run.
3m · PublishedBlitzscaling 🤔 4 hour work week
What kind of startup do you want to create and run?
Be clear on your desires to achieve the journey and outcome you want.
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In this episode I ask founders to think about the kind of startup journey and outcome they want. Consider things like bootstrapping vs. venture capital. Going for unicorn status vs. building a lifestyle business.
Are you open to working 100 hour work weeks, or are you looking for a 4 hour work week allowing time for your favorite activities?
Do you want to be a serial entrepreneur, ride this train all the way to the end of the line, or get a payout and retire?
66. Pre-revenue startup funding: valuations & venture capital
10m · PublishedLearn how angel investors and venture capitalists determine your startup’s valuation
I share three formal methodologies and the secret technique most angels actually use
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Calculating preseed valuations can be tricky because you have little to no revenue to base it on.
Both Angel Investors and Venture Capital companies have a number of valuation methodologies they can use.
Startup funding requires setting a pre-money valuation for the company, which are the end point of a negotiation between the investor and the startup founder.
Related topics:
Pre-seed, slidebean, crowdfunding, equity, y combinator, startup pitch, pitch deck, startup news, startup grind, growth hacking, ycombinator, how to start an online business
Feel the Boot has 107 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 29:54:59. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 17th, 2024 11:41.
