Re:Conflicted Capital
by stanrivers on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:49AM
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This is not cool - I am sorry. Investor here - they should never do that. Make sure you tell others about how this went down. If they were planning on getting rid of you, that needs to be part of the upfront discussion etc.
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Re:Conflicted Capital
by fractionalhare on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:18PM
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It was evidently Insight Partners. They led the Series A on OP's last startup: Insight Partners. They evidently led the Series A for OP's last startup, which according to their LinkedIn is Numetric. Crunchbase tells you what you need to know: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/numetric-series-a--...
Re:Conflicted Capital
by nowherebeen on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:24AM
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We need ratemyinvestor.com to weed out the flock of bad investors.
Re:Conflicted Capital
by rsweeney21 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:05PM
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They are a large and very lawsuit happy VC. It's not worth the risk to warn other people about this VC.
Re:Conflicted Capital
by covidthrow on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:42PM
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It would be a shame if someone else created a throwaway account to express similar sentiment about a similar firm and named them.
Re:Conflicted Capital
by throwaway9172 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:09PM
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It doesn't take a lot of insight to look at the crunchbase of OP's former company and look who lead the series A...
Re:Conflicted Capital
by fractionalhare on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:20PM
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Re:Conflicted Capital
by stanrivers on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:52PM
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Yeah - I more mean... don't go out there and go out of your way to advertise that they did this.
But founders should talk to other founders about their experience with different investors. The good, the bad and the ugly.
In those situations, you can make it clear - in objective terms - what happened and why you would not take money from them again. Don't call them names or anything.