This can put you in an extremely unfavorable financial position
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:33 am
a private enterprise that will own the rights to the development. The company will assure that if the “deal doesn’t work out,” you will get everything back at market value.
We wrote about “Govorillka” above. At the start, the project was valued at 1.5 million rubles. It acquired an investor, “Dengi-Invest,” which, in exchange for help, received 50% of the authorized capital of the new enterprise, “Govorillka 2.0.” This organization becomes the full owner of all rights to the product.
“Govorillka” released the product, but the startup did not mailing list by zip codes pay off in five or even ten months. “Dengi-Invest” realized that the product would not start bringing in a stable income anytime soon, and the company was not ready to wait.
It offered the founder of “Govorillka” to buy out its share, but not for 750,000, but for 7.5 million rubles.
In this case, you will have to look for a new investor or money, because to develop the project you need to stay in business. The rights to the idea now belong not to "Govoralka", but to "Govoralka 2.0".
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We wrote about “Govorillka” above. At the start, the project was valued at 1.5 million rubles. It acquired an investor, “Dengi-Invest,” which, in exchange for help, received 50% of the authorized capital of the new enterprise, “Govorillka 2.0.” This organization becomes the full owner of all rights to the product.
“Govorillka” released the product, but the startup did not mailing list by zip codes pay off in five or even ten months. “Dengi-Invest” realized that the product would not start bringing in a stable income anytime soon, and the company was not ready to wait.
It offered the founder of “Govorillka” to buy out its share, but not for 750,000, but for 7.5 million rubles.
In this case, you will have to look for a new investor or money, because to develop the project you need to stay in business. The rights to the idea now belong not to "Govoralka", but to "Govoralka 2.0".
Expert advice
Enlarge imageinvestor's lessons
Serial IT entrepreneur Dmitry Gachko shared his experience with us (source - personal archive of Dmitry Gachko)
Serial IT entrepreneur, venture investor, founder of ITGLOBAL.COM Group Dmitry Gachko is sure that you can interest a real sponsor by showing a working business model. And the startupper must also convince that he is able to scale it.