What is the highest percentage of your business should you give to investors when just starting out?

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Full stop. You need to understand term sheets, plan your future funding needs, and be well aware of what the investor will bring. A good cornerstone investor will drive your next round of funding but a bad or passive one will just take equity and may impose some type of rachet or multiple that will impact you later.

0%, if the business has a good model, you don't want to run into the risk of doing all that work just for someone else to make money off of you. Bootstrap, fundraise, w/e you gotta do to keep 100%

Please don't follow this advice. If you can raise debt and do it yourself, sure. Just know eventually if you need to hire good people you want them to share in the upside. It's a tradeoff you give them for taking a risk on a no name company. Also, a good investor will help you grow much faster than you'd otherwise be able to.

60% of a 100M company is always better than 100% of a 10M company.

Never more than forty-nine percent. Keep control of your business.

How would you fundraise without giving any percentage of your business?

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