Sounds like a nobleman griping about commoners' ability to crash the party with cash. Venture financing would be a strange animal indeed if there was one true b

Sounds like a nobleman griping about commoners' ability to crash the party with cash. Venture financing would be a strange animal indeed if there was one true best way to structure every deal for every venture. If there is a big demand for this, the big boys refuse to serve it, and being funded by the big boys truly increases success probability substantially, some clever Wall Street'er could find a way to buy part of, say a Sequoia funded, founders upside; or at least something somewhat aligned with it. Even if it means working around some legal headaches. As an aside, these founder liquidity events could be just the ticket for those much maligned 'idea guys':).