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After working with many founders during a PR crisis, here the advice you get for each price level. Hopefully it will save you some money.
1. In-house Comms
• Cost: $0
• Advice: Put out an apology and announce changes, which will subsequently get picked apart by every critic.
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Nikita Bierx.com
When you’re launching your app, setup redundancy for all commodity service providers: 2 analytics providers, 2 sms providers, 2 of everything.
When you go viral and they try to extort you with egregious contracts, add their competitor to the email thread and say: “May the best man win” and log off.
Nikita Bierx.comIf an investor ever tells you they’ll invest if you find a “lead investor”: that’s a no and you should move on.
If you expect to find a lead without a track record, don’t hold your breath.
As one founder advised me when I was first starting out: just set the terms on your own round and raise... See more
Nikita Bierx.comTo bid in a disciplined way, you trade the likelihood of winning against the profits from winning. Some sophisticated dealmakers do this instinctively.
Guhan Subramanian • Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiauctions (Second Edition)
My strategy as a GC assuming I was clueless on what it should cost: would be
1, call the most expensive guy, tell him about the other quotes and see if he’s willing to match.
2, call the second guy, tell him about bid 3 and gauge reaction.
3. Call 3 and ask for all credentials
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Mike Wardx.com