Most Founders taking investor money have never had an investor before – so we don't really know what to expect once we've been handed that big fat check.

There's a notion that once investors are involved, we'll get bullied around at Board meetings or pushed out like so many Founder horror stories we've heard. (Yes, Steve Jobs got fired at Apple).

Why do investors want to run my company

To be clear — they don't. At all.

The worst possible outcome for most investors is that they have to stop doing their job (investing) and instead do our jobs (running a company).

There are edge cases where individual angel investors (often with too much time on their hands) may want to meddle with the business, but most professional investors consider havi...