The clause looked harmless. Sign here, get the money, keep building. But with a twist: sign it, and the company starts bleeding out before anyone notices.

In this Build in Public episode of Tomorrow's Bites, Andres Jara is back after what he calls a crazy month, one spent buried in term sheets, convertible loans, and the small print that can quietly kill a startup. This isn't the polished version. It's the one where his confidence dropped through the floor, he stopped posting on LinkedIn, and a single clause held up his entire runway.

The lesson underneath it all: before you negotiate with anyone, write a contract with yourself.

In this conversation, Andres breaks down what that actually means in practice:

Why knowing your non-negotiables before the first meeting makes investors respect you more, not less
The "most favorable terms" clause that pitted his two investors against each other, and how he got them in a room instead of playing ping pong between them
Why investors love to negotiate when you're under time pressure, and how planting a seed months earlier saved him
The condition that trapped him: show 80% of the budget, but once the money lands, you can't borrow to cover the gap
Where AI actually helped, and the one thing he'd never outsource to it before calling a real advisor
Why an investor who wants a say in every decision is the moment you stop owning your company
The difference between a scarcity yes and an abundance no when the runway is shrinking
And the conversation with his mother, at nearly midnight on the worst day, that reframed the whole thing

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Building in Public #10: How To Negotiate Contracts On Your Terms With Investors (Without Killing Your Company) with Andres Jara Co-Founder of Favamole

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Building in Public #10: How To Negotiate Contracts On Your Terms With Investors (Without Killing Your Company) with Andres Jara Co-Founder of Favamole