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Wow. Eric and Elizabeth Lefkosky turned a $1m angel investment (according to crunchbase) into $380m cash in 4 years.

• maxdemarzi 15y ago
  I remember reading a pretty nasty article about Eric Lefkosky. "InnerWorkings goes to great lengths to obscure its ownership and control by a chap named Eric P. Lefkofsky who has a history of busting investors after promising to radically transform bricks-and-mortar industries. He seems to identify with Dr. Seuss's huckster: he called his last business Starbelly.com, a venture that rapidly went into bankruptcy and provoked fraud suits by investors alleging that Starbelly's software was never what Lefkofsky promised. " http://notablecalls1.blogspot.com/2007/01/inner-workings-of-innerworkings.html http://notablecalls1.blogspot.com/2007/01/inner-workings-of-...
  • alanfalcon 15y ago
    That huckster could have been seen as providing a public service. Or, well, earning a fortune with the public service as a side benefit. In other words, seems like this comparison is giving the huckster a bad rap!
  • clobber 15y ago
    Yes. Stay clear of Lefkofsky and Lightbank http://lightbank.com/ http://lightbank.com/