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Kat Nouri: Founders lose operational control when accepting outside investor capital
“You can't run your company the way you want if you take someone else's money, and I wasn't about to let anybody ruin my vision”
Nouri spent $25K negotiating with Mark Cuban before walking away
“In the end, we spent, like, 20, 25,000 dollars on the negotiations, and I really wanted to make it happen, but I wanted a deal that basically let me still run the company the way I wanted to, and I couldn't get that deal, and I had to walk away.”
Nouri proactively sought Stasher's acquirers rather than waiting for offers
“And by the way, just for the record, I didn't get acquired. I brought the acquirers to the table. I saw anybody that would have an arm for massive distribution of stasher out, and I weeded them out.”
Nouri: Stasher raised $500K from a friend's brother post-Shark Tank
“I had one friend whose brother had seen the show, and, He said, I don't care what anybody says. You're a complete badass, and I want you to run the company exactly the way you're running it, and here's a half a million dollars without any questions. So I took …”
Anova Paid for Stasher's Initial Production Molds
“I didn't get an order from Target directly, but Inova gave me a great order, and I made a great deal with Inova where they had to pay for the molds for the productions because we didn't have them.”
Mark Cuban would have seen huge returns on his Stasher deal
“He would have been clicking his heels.”