Should Our Startup Have an Exit Strategy? Should We Tell Potential Investors What It Is?

Alan Jones
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJan 8, 2021

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Some investors want to stay investors in portfolio startups for the whole life of the company, others are looking for a quicker return on an investment and will be happy to accept a smaller return along with that.

You can get penalised by either kind of an investor if you raise the topic of an exit strategy without…

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Alan Jones
The Startup

I’m a coach for founders, partner at M8 Ventures, angel investor. Earlier: founder, early Yahoo product manager, tech reporter. Latest: disrupt.radio