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The Importance of Controlling Your Own Destiny in Deals

7 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Tiger Buford tells startup CEOs to keep control of their own decisions during fundraising and deal negotiations. Financial pressure, market momentum, and the desire to impress investors can push you to accept bad terms. Surrendering the right to walk away or say no destroys your long-term power.

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And I say this to all startup CEOs and boards that I work with, is especially when you're doing a deal, you must always reserve the right to control your own destiny. Sometimes we get into situations where we do not want to do a deal or a situation, or you just don't feel right with it, but you're backed up against financial problems, market momentum, need to have something on the PR base, delight investors, attract new investors, and you'd be forced to do something. But giving away your ability to control your own destiny, i.e., make decisions for the company to walk away, to sell, those are always I think the most important things.