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Hi Guys, Interesting news! 👀. By the way, I have a question:

👉 How do you earn the headline “Tycoons of Business” or “Startup Tycoons”? Is it after your startup reaches Soonicorn 🦄, Unicorn 🦄, or Decacorn 💎 status?.

Or is it based on how many startups you have built, and how long you have survived in the market, regardless of all the challenges you faced, yet still managed to survive, grow, and focus on exponential scaling with support from different stakeholders and the market? 🦁⚔️🔥🚀.

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Getting a term sheet is one thing. Knowing how to negotiate it is another. Here’s how to go about it. That’s where most founders struggle. Here’s what I see consistently:

The number on the cover page is not the deal.

A $12M pre-money with participating preferred and full-ratchet anti-dilution can be worth less than a $9M with clean terms. 

The structure is where founders lose money, not the valuation.

Our CEO Mr Sanjeev Sinha will be speaking to students in Reva University this coming Tuesday.

He will be speaking on how to transform ideas into successful products.

Stay tuned for updates.

Round: Seed Amount: £500,000 ($650,000 USD)

Instrument: SAFE or Equity

Target Close: 30 days

Use: 18-month runway to £1M ARR

Why Now: The UK scaffolding market is consolidating. Tier-1 contractors (Balfour Beatty, Kier) are demanding digital compliance tracking.

The window to establish ScaffoldAI as the market standard is 12-18 months before Autodesk/Trimble react.

This is a Shout out to

🚀 Defence & Dual-Use Tech Founders - Revenue Stage

We are looking to partner with revenue-generating, tech-driven startups in:

• Defence Tech

• Dual-Use Technologies

Most founders negotiate 3 clauses in a term sheet.There are over 100.

Here are 5 that quietly kill founder ownership.

- Full ratchet anti-dilution:

You raised at a $10M valuation. Your next round comes in at $5M. A full ratchet resets the investor's price per share to the lower round. Not just on new shares. On their entire holding.

Your 25% ownership can drop to 12% from one clause.

Only read further if you are ready to become a founder and build your own startup or cobuild a startup with others. This is an invite to join build3 and do exactly that. If this is not you, you can stop reading here.

Location: Goa, India (Remote options available)

Job Type: Full-time, All the time! (Is there any other way to build a startup :)

About build3: build3 is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas into scalable startups that not only generate profit but also make a positive impact on the world. Our build3 Impact Accelerator (biA) is designed to support such entrepreneurs in their journey.

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