100% yes. Make sure it works in your area. Having a regional manager or CEO doesn't make sense at all. Not for the market, not for investors, not for you either. The Founder-CEO should be able to pull it off, otherwise you don't seem like a good bet as a product or as an investable venture.
Hello, I have some experience with this from past companies and startups. I'm a current investor in 2 and have experience pitching. Email me whatever thoughts you have and I'll try to help. Humberto@unthink.me
Because you mentioned MVP, Im assuming that your current business is a service company, not a technology/product company. If that's the case, then you would definitely need to build out an MVP of the product and ideally show customers using the product as is. The major issue of a service compan...
Assuming when you say 'vest' you actually mean exercise. It's sounds like an investor doesn't believe you will execute without the extra incentive. I'm not a fan of tranches of any form, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Also, you didn't mention the strike price, so no way to know if...