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Startup founders who got funding and later wished they hadn't
Did any members of the community here succesfully get funding but later wished they hadn't? And why?
- eliot_sykes 17y agoNot quite the same, but reminds me of joshu's comment about wishing he hadn't sold delicious to Yahoo http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754339 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754339
- subud 17y agoYour question reminds me of something I read about Larry Ellison: "Ellison claims his greatest lesson while from Gene Amdahl was never to take venture capital money. Amdahl took vc money, and they fired him." http://www.businessinsider.com/ceosfirstjobs/larry-ellison http://www.businessinsider.com/ceosfirstjobs/larry-ellison
- coverband 17y agoArsDigita was a good story about funding killing the company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita Though, another POV suggests that it was the greediness around newfound money: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita