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Re:How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Start... by strebler on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:41PM (#10583087)
Perhaps if the investors in these Midwest startups enabled founders to take some funds off the table from a round, it could help to alleviate this problem.

If founders have all the stress of low salary + not much savings + lots of work to do + maybe starting a family, of course a $10M exit starts to look good.

But if they're achieving good results, why not give the founders a small taste of the billion dollar carrot?

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Re:How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Start... by tfe on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @02:45PM (#10583482)
The article actually suggests this near the end, and discusses some reasons it doesn't happen currently.
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