"shr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <shr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> NC wrote:
> > You've just skipped about seven steps in a single sentence.
>
> And all of those seven steps I wish to leave to someone who is a
> professional at dealing with those seven steps. Hence my need.
Sorry, it just ain't gonna happen. You don't (yet?) have a scale
to be able to afford such a professional. As you said yourself:
> I am seeking only 1M as my first round.
How big a company do you plan to build with that? Eight people
and no revenues?
> I would like to have many small investors
Big mistake. The more investors you have, the greater the chance
that one of them will tie you up in a lawsuit for the rest of your
life.
> > Ideally, you also need a CEO with 15-20 years of big-name
> > industry experience that includes a successful track record
> > of managing a high-growth company or a high-growth division
> > within a company, but that may wait until round 2, if not 3
> > or 4...
>
> Uh... **** that. No offense ;-) There a folks what builds em',
> and there are folks what runs em'.
Not anymore. There's also a folks what runs the buildin'. There
are plenty of companies out there that reached $1 billion a year
revenue threshold within 4 to 6 years from foundation. And there
are managers that supervised it, many on multiple occasions.
Managing a high-growth organization is a very specific skillset...
> Above is the latter.
The above is a carefully depersonalized bio sketch of Eric Schmidt,
the CEO of Google and a 20-year veteran of the software biz, whose
career included stints at PARC, Bell Labs, Sun, and Novell.
> Perhaps I'm not understanding the job of CEO fully.
Indeed. The job of the CEO is to keep investors, not you, happy.
Cheers,
NC
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