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“How UK's Startup Coalition lobbies government for better immigration and funding policies”
...Coalition is we're a lobby group for the tech startup ecosystem in The UK. So what does that mean in practice? It means that we spend, you know, all of our time doing two things. One is listening to f
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...startups on corporate governance. Corporate governance is extremely like, I cannot wait. Give me give me some corporate governance. But let me tell you, like, what is that? The the largest?
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...sell startups on corporate governance. Corporate governance is extremely like, I cannot wait. Give me give me some corporate governance. But let me tell you, like, what is that? The the largest? So so we go to market under a variety of brand names fo
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...governance thing you say, where they like don't wanna give up a whole bunch of board seats and then have to do kind of management of VC personalities and everything, which is true. But they don't seem to take seriously again, maybe they just get this
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So, yeah, when you are bringing in VC investors, there there are lots of things to look out for. But, certainly, the terms that they are trying to impose around founder vesting and the lever provisions attached to those are really important to unders
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...to, to have someone outsider there. And then I think with the Series B, we added, added another board member to kind of get two different perspectives in the board meeting. So we just don't have us and then one investor, but we now have two investors
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...needs to be taken seriously. You're representing a lot of other people's money. So there's that. And then, you know, you do want to have absolute dictatorships with, like, no Well, like examination and say never. And then aspirationally, obviously, t
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“The governance mistakes that make VCs tear their hair out”
Governance. That is probably where most of the VCs in this room, they tear out their hair. Right? When is your next investment committee? Who is on the investment committee? How do you decide? So when
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has happened and it's happened because there's a VC on the board or a number of VCs, on the board, number of investors, I should say. I would say that it is highly likely, not definite, but highly likely that when those investors came into the compan
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...and governments governance to arrive. And we say, hey. You know, if we own over five or 10% of the company, we would like the option of a board observer seat or a board seat. Yeah. A little flexible on the margins there. And when I had that conversat
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...governance to, to have someone outsider there. And then I think with the Series B, we added, added another board member
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from employee, but then the company doesn't exchange, so I now have preferred shares. Mhmm. But in it in return for this gift that you gave me to participate, I'm now gonna give you a proxy over my preferred shares, and then we carve out one or two t
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...startups like to have shareholder agreements where one shareholder is given essentially governance rights, not because they're a shareholder and they can vote their shares, but because they have a contractual right to say, Board, you're not allowed t
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as a safe investor, if you just get safe and, you don't have a side letter, like, not a whole lot changes as a founder and that you don't have to give away a board seat. You don't have to give away a stock. You don't have have to give them informatio
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how are you going to refresh that cap table to ensure that you've got enough shares that you can continue to bring people on? And the other thing that we think is very important, especially in precede and seed companies, is incentive incenting your b
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