Walking Away from VC

Posted by charuhas on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @07:06AM
from the charuhas.com dept.

http://charuhas.com/story

This is a story about:

--Why a startup founder walked away from $100,000 in venture capital and took a regular job.

--What hidden dangers lurked in this seemingly safe job with a large organization.

--How, through negotiating these dangers, he learned how to be a much better entrepreneur.

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Re:Walking Away from VC by redorb on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @02:51PM (#124945)

walking away from VC

(walked away from VC, after failing with 750k in grants) and the VC deal was only if he could find matching investors.

deceptive title.. decent story

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Re:Walking Away from VC by xirium on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @10:46AM (#124776)

From the article: Whatever I did from here on out, I told my counselor, it would be as part of a team.

Therapy can be expensive. This is a good case for having co-founders.

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Re:Walking Away from VC by mig on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @02:15PM (#124922)

The link is broken!!

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Re:Walking Away from VC by topcoder8 on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @02:24PM (#124927)

Seem like the author took down the story.. I was reading till page 4 and then its gone..

It was a great story though... Please put it back if you are reading this, Chris

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Re:Walking Away from VC by hhm on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @02:38PM (#124940)

I saved it on my delicious to read it later, and then I found it was gone. I really what I read on the article first so now it's a pity if I can't read it. I wish it'll be back soon.

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Re:Walking Away from VC by Spyckie on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @02:20PM (#124925)

yeah, and I was on the second-to-last page too... great story so far.

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Re:Walking Away from VC by jamescoops on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @11:04AM (#124791)

I'm glad i dont have to work for people like that boss - scary stuff

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Re:Walking Away from VC by edw519 on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @12:39PM (#124860)

A few problems with this article:

1. Nine pages? Put it all on one page. Almost everyone has broadband now.

2. Got government grants to develop his startup and still failed? This is the wrong place to complain. Lots of people here would love a handout (that's what it is), but never get the chance.

3. Too long. Hacker news is for 5 minute breaks. That story could have been 50% as long.

In spite of all that, great read. I had to keep going to find out what happened. Nice enough guy. Sure hope he gets everything to work out.

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Re:Walking Away from VC by zandorg on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @11:49AM (#124825)

I only read the first page, but you really get VC for software and web startups, not publishing companies.

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