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【Lesson #3 - Talk to your investors】
Many founders spend countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears fundraising. Endless Zoom calls, perpetual follow-ups, coffee chats, check-ins, dinners, networking events, are all examples of this "always be fundraising" mentality commonly held among bootstrapping entrepreneurs. It's a lot of effort, that oftentimes does not carry over post-fundraising. Once they get money in, the communications falter—a grave mistake and wasted resource, according to Hai Ho, the founder/CEO of Triip (AW#18), a blockchain powered travel platform based in VN.
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What I’ve come to learn is that the strength of your company is very closely tied to the strength of your relationship with your investors and how frequently you interact with them. Oftentimes in the early days of your startup, you tend to shrug off any need for external help. You managed to build up promising initial traction, raise a round or two of financing, hire top notch talent—things are good, why trouble yourself with managing investor relations. “I’ll reach out when there’s a problem” you might think to yourself.
Before, I would probably hold a board meeting once, maybe twice a year depending on everyone’s schedule, strictly for the purposes of corporate governance. I’ve since changed how I communicate with my investors. No matter how busy it gets, I make it an effort to send email updates once a month and have meetings with them twice a quarter.
Looking back on my 13 years of entrepreneurship, I wish I could’ve done this a lot sooner. Your investors collectively boast a wealth of experience, wisdom, and connections. Make sure you take advantage of that. Talk to them, in good times and bad. You’re on a long-term journey together, so the least you can do is put some trust in each other. They can help illuminate your blind spots, while leveling the playing field against competition, but only if you let them.
We often forget that founder-investor relations are still a type of human relationship at the end of the day, which can only be developed through consistent face-to-face interactions (virtual or physical), not just from a couple of WhatsApp messages here and there. Doing so has created a stronger bond and mutual understanding between my board and I, and ultimately allowed for more information flow, both ways. Most of my problems now have become much easier to solve than before.
Right when COVID first hit in early 2020, I was still somewhat optimistic about the fundraising climate and overall travel landscape, in my naivete. But one of our very early investors that I had recently rekindled with through my renewed IR efforts thankfully stepped in with a precautionary outlook, shepherding us through some scenario planning and advising us to cut costs to zero and assume we wouldn’t be able to get new funds in until 2024. His guidance was instrumental in helping us weather this storm so far. It’s been an incredibly tough time for travel companies this year, to say the least. But building this communication flow with my investors and advisors has made it 10x easier, for both tactical and moral support.
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台灣第一主播，雅琴英語教室開講了！EP.89
週一到週五記得準時收看喔~
本集重點單字:
The commonwealth of pennsylvania 賓夕法尼亞州
laying ground 鋪設地面
file lawsuits 提起訴訟
voting fraud 選票詐欺
recount 重新計票
meaningful 有意義的
ballots 選票
shrug off 聳聳肩
surge 激增
Best (v).擊 倒
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今天我們公司普渡，一時之間行雷閃電大雨滂沱，但是我們還是順利普渡完成~~~~所以今天照樣提早直播，因為阿亮平常肚子就很早會餓，普渡這一天一定更餓吧~~~
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操吳戈兮被犀甲，車錯轂兮短兵接。
旌蔽日兮敵若雲，矢交墜兮士爭先。
凌餘陣兮躐餘行，左驂殪兮右刃傷。
霾兩輪兮縶四馬，援玉枹兮擊鳴鼓。
天時懟兮威靈怒，嚴殺盡兮棄原野。
出不入兮往不反，平原忽兮路超遠。
帶長劍兮挾秦弓，首身離兮心不懲。
誠既勇兮又以武，終剛強兮不可凌。
身既死兮神以靈，魂魄毅兮爲鬼雄。
根據ettoday的報導:【國產 #高端疫苗 昨(23日)開打，不料今卻相繼爆出接種後疑似猝死案，繼桃園陸姓專欄作家後，新北市稍早也傳出死亡個案，家住蘆洲區信義路的39歲彭姓男子昨接種高端疫苗，今上午11時許被家人發現昏倒在浴室中，當場沒有呼吸，今緊急送醫後仍宣告不治死亡。】
根據蘋果新聞網的報導:【高端疫苗昨天開打，一名陸姓作家昨天施打後，今天出現不適情況，到院前死亡。該名作家相當支持打疫苗，認為利大於弊，且支持國產高端疫苗，昨天一家三口一同去施打。他曾在臉書發文分享打疫苗的觀點，「萬一打了疫苗死了，也只能視為向病毒『獻祭』。」可用少數人的犧牲換取多數人的平安。作家之死究竟與高端是否相關，仍待調查。】這兩則新聞其實都很讓人注目，其中之一的原因是，陸姓作家真的是非常愛黨愛國，所以當下午引起討論的時候，陳時中馬上說據知是心肌梗塞，但兩個問題；第一這就是病患隱私，家屬同意公布了嗎?第二個，當初九把刀的岳母病逝時，記者會的第一時間陳時中說的是這不是公眾人物不評論，那為什麼想想論壇的陸姓作家就算是公眾人物，第一時間就要評論呢?這樣的標準是不是又是雙重標準了?
而且最近 #蘇貞昌 的狀況是不是不太好?又出現在海關飆罵的場景，是不是他情緒失控?而且同黨立委也不是全都贊成這樣的做法，他到底是在立威還是在宣洩?接下來這麼難熬要怎麼過呢，馬上就要公投和罷免了，陳柏惟的命運如何?
根據聯合新聞網的報導:【 #美國撤軍阿富汗 和喀布爾機場出現逃難潮，是上周最令人震撼的新聞事件。金融時報（FT）23日以「台灣人相信美國爹，漠視對岸威脅」為題，報導台灣現況。即使軍機常態化繞行台灣，台灣軍機升空驅離和巡邏次數大增，但FT引述華府智庫布魯金斯研究所（Brookings Institution）資深研究員卜睿哲（Richard Bush）對台灣的形容：「你看到的不是你以為會有的恐懼。」FT報導，蔡英文領導的政府經常向國際社會凸顯台灣困境，凸顯自己是中國大陸侵略的目標，但「對於強化國家抵禦北京攻擊，甚至為可能的戰爭做好準備，卻少有作為」。】阿亮對這則新聞特別有感，是不是美國爸爸認為台灣太不夠認真了，大家都說願意上戰場結果不願意買軍備，也不願意恢復徵兵制，事實上連金門的八二三紀念儀式，中央都沒有派人去，只是臉書發個文，是不是小編沒有打過仗覺得貓還比較重要呢?
另外，阿亮特別要提一件事情，根據中國新聞網的報導:【李魁文表示，上半年，中美雙邊貨物貿易總值2.21萬億元，同比增長34.6%。對美出口1.64萬億元，增長31.7%，其中機電產品出口1.01萬億元，增長34.2%，勞動密集型產品出口3722億元，增長24.1%。從具體產品看，電腦、手機、家電、服裝、塑膠製品、傢俱均保持增長。李魁文介紹，我國自美國進口5706.5億元，增長43.9%。其中機電產品進口2388.6億元，增長13.4%；農產品進口1360.1億元，增長120.8%。】可是中美貿易戰怎麼打成這樣還是持續有增加，打了一年ㄟ，這是怎麼搞得?
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