Title: I&#x27;m in a pickle. I have a funded enterprise B2B startup that seems to be going well, but it&#x27;s clear that the industry is highly competitive, but we are growing quickly. I recently stumbled upon an entirely unrelated business idea, simply because of long conversations with customers in a particular vertical and it&#x27;s very clear that there&#x27;s a huge opportunity there (possibly bigger than what we are doing now). How should I handle this? I feel a responsibility to run the current company to the current investors hence I wouldn&#x27;t want to be distracted, but at the same time, this opportunity is bigger and requires more capital than the current company can finance. I have verbal validation &quot;if you do x, we will partner with you&quot; and I&#x27;d like to experiment. There are several concerns: 
i) How to handle the current team and investors, it can&#x27;t seem like I&#x27;ve given up on the current business; it still has a lot of potential
ii) the reality is that if I run it under the current umbrella we will all be diluted significantly
iii) I&#x27;m thinking of having a separate c-corp below the current one wholly owned, how do you present this to the board without seeming to be fully distracted?<p>Any ideas would be very welcome
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