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Vijay is a CEO Coach to High-Growth Startups | This newsletter is about how to get clarity, make decisions, and scale with GTM, Fundraising, and Team-Building
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When Your Team Avoids Eye Contact (opens the original)
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Should you pick the “best” offer from an investor? (opens the original)
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I sat down with Loralyn Mears of the Small Business Stories Podcast to discuss the funding landscape and The Funding Framework earlier this year. The market has only gotten more heated. But founders should ask if they need funding and what makes an offer the “best.”When founders get multiple term sheets, the natural instinct is to take the highest valuation. It feels like winning. You dilute less today, post a vanity milestone on LinkedIn, and assume you will figure out the rest later.Most of th
The Founder's Paradox: Vision vs. Execution (opens the original)
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Welcome back to this twelve-week series. Each week, I will share insights from my spring UC Berkeley course on how founders and leaders approach change management. We will explore practical frameworks for navigating transformation. This is your guide to leading through change.You have a vision. You see it clearly. Your team worries about the sprint ending on Friday.This tension defines founders. Scale requires holding both simultaneously.Sarah raised a seed round to build an “operating system fo
Why Everything Changes (opens the original)
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You just closed your seed round. The check cleared. Your team is celebrating. You have 18 months of runway.Now what?<img alt="a sign post with a few signs on it" class="sizing-normal" height="3456" src="https://images.uns
Stop asking for the Wrong Intros to Investors (opens the original)
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If you’re preparing to raise capital, one of the first questions that keeps you up at night is deceptively simple: How do I actually meet the right people?When founders think of angel investors, they often jump straight to high-profile founders—executives or CEOs at marquee companies like Notion, Figma, or Linear. While these operator-angels are fantastic allies, building a target list requires a strategic framework.As explained in The Funding Framework for founders going through the fundraising
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