Strategy & Funding Task
Prepare a bounded investor outreach list
The company has chosen a counsel-approved securities process and needs to identify possible investors without drifting into uncontrolled solicitation.
“This is costing founder time in poorly bounded investor conversations right now.”
The result you need
Know whom counsel permits the company to approach, why each candidate fits the approved criteria, and when a conversation should stop.
What is happening now
Where the work gets stuck
A founder has authority to explore a specific securities offering under a route approved by counsel.
- When it starts
- The company needs a bounded set of potential investors and a reason to include or exclude each one.
- What makes it difficult
- Interest alone does not show values, structure, mandate, conflicts, or long-term fit, and outreach can be regulated.
- What progress looks like
- Every candidate has sourced fit evidence, a counsel-approved contact basis, an owner, and a continue or stop status.
What to try next
Build a counsel-approved investor list
Create a bounded internal list from approved criteria and stop rules before anyone sends outreach.
Before you act
Check these limits
- Keep Finance ownership of cash flow, runway, bookkeeping, spend, and accounting.
- Keep Sales ownership of customer acquisition and Product ownership of discovery and roadmap delivery.
- Use founder accounts as bounded evidence. Do not generalise them to every founder or entrepreneur in residence.
- Do not create offers, solicitations, term advice, investment or valuation benchmarks, legal interpretations, or automated decisions.
- Independent counsel and the qualified advisers for each applicable jurisdiction must review every external communication and transaction decision before use.
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