Agreed. so its not really for "startups", its more of a trick to get companies with capital to have a sales conversation with meraki. Its a clever sales trick

Agreed. so its not really for "startups", its more of a trick to get companies with capital to have a sales conversation with meraki. Its a clever sales trick, but it also pisses me off. VC/Angel funding is not the definition of a "legitimate" tech startups. (to borrow from recent oft quoted phrases from recent political discourse)