Periagoge
Scenario

How to navigate funding decisions when your team has different growth philosophies

Our startup team is split on whether to take funding now and scale quickly or bootstrap longer to maintain control and build more sustainably. The investors are pressuring for a decision and half the team wants the security of capital while the other half thinks we're giving up too much too early. Every strategy meeting turns into the same fundamental disagreement about growth versus independence.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is paralyzed by competing visions of sustainable success versus accelerated opportunity.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Long-term thinking vs. short-term thinking?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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