I would say my Kafessiz Türkiye (Cage-free Turkey) cofounding experience followed this pattern, at least partially. Of course, these weren’t the only reasons but I think things could have been different if funding schemes were different. As for Animal Advocacy Careers, I don’t really have a senior position to talk authoritatively about this issue but my subjective view is that again, different decisions about hiring (and increasing size) might have happened if funding schemes were different.
I guess AIM startup space might be a bit different since in AIM there is a significant “education” period that can teach founders to not to fall for “founder mistakes”. Another reason might be that AIM provide a good amount of seed funding that can provide a long runway—something that other organisations don’t have.
Looking at this again, I guess my observations are mainly focused on animal welfare space—which is something that I should have mentioned in the post (thanks for this). It may be that GHD funding is not like this.
But aside from that, the main argument of the post depends on the fact that most grants are annual or biannual which explains certain dynamics.
Hi there!
I would say my Kafessiz Türkiye (Cage-free Turkey) cofounding experience followed this pattern, at least partially. Of course, these weren’t the only reasons but I think things could have been different if funding schemes were different. As for Animal Advocacy Careers, I don’t really have a senior position to talk authoritatively about this issue but my subjective view is that again, different decisions about hiring (and increasing size) might have happened if funding schemes were different.
I guess AIM startup space might be a bit different since in AIM there is a significant “education” period that can teach founders to not to fall for “founder mistakes”. Another reason might be that AIM provide a good amount of seed funding that can provide a long runway—something that other organisations don’t have.
Looking at this again, I guess my observations are mainly focused on animal welfare space—which is something that I should have mentioned in the post (thanks for this). It may be that GHD funding is not like this.
But aside from that, the main argument of the post depends on the fact that most grants are annual or biannual which explains certain dynamics.