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Re:The Stock Market Is Shrinking by codingdave on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:27PM (#17692374)
Call me crazy, but maybe the first step to reversing that trend is for the startup founders to stop seeking VC funding as their first major milestone in their development. After all, the biggest coup counted by the VC world was convincing an entire generation of entrepreneurs that their way was the only way.
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Re:The Stock Market Is Shrinking by paulddraper on Sunday August 05, 2018 @02:47PM (#17692786)
I hear you, but startups are extremely risky ventures. So risky that many don't even try. And if you have a family, it gets even harder.

VCs reduce the personal risk (at the cost to the personal upside). I suspect this compromise is helpful to very many.

Moreover, VC terms are far better than they were 20 years ago. It is not at all hard to get funding with 1x liquidation vanilla terms, something that used to be quite challenging.

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