{"id":310,"date":"2017-11-22T22:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/is-strategic-money-an-oxymoron-both-sides-of\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T22:22:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:22:05","slug":"is-strategic-money-an-oxymoron-both-sides-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/is-strategic-money-an-oxymoron-both-sides-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron? \u2013 Both Sides of the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/bothsidesofthetable.com\/is-strategic-money-an-oxymoron-385590d4008f'>Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron? \u2013 Both Sides of the Table<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>OK, so maybe they won\u2019t be helpful. Most VCs aren\u2019t either? What\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Great question. It\u2019s true that many VCs over promise how helpful they\u2019ll be with introductions \/ strategic advice \/ recruiting, etc. But this is benign. Strategics can have some negative impacts:<\/p>\n<p>1. You\u2019re not their core business\u200a\u2014\u200atheir interest will swing more wildly with the markets<\/p>\n<p>When times are good \u201cstrategics\u201d want in. They\u2019ll pay up for it and promise much. When times are bad many cease investment activity all together. OK, I know this is true with VC also, but to a lesser extent. Investing is our core business. We have nothing else to revert to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron? \u2013 Both Sides of the Table OK, so maybe they won\u2019t be helpful. Most VCs aren\u2019t either? What\u2019s the difference? Great question. It\u2019s true that many VCs over promise how helpful they\u2019ll be with introductions \/ strategic advice \/ recruiting, etc. But this is benign. Strategics can have some negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}