A less obvious approach is to insist that the venture capitalists buy some of your common shares at the time of the investment. There are a lot of venture capit

A less obvious approach is to insist that the venture capitalists buy some of your common shares at the time of the investment. There are a lot of venture capitalists and not too many good companies. If your company is attractive, you can probably find a firm that will agree to put $10 million into the company and, say, $3 million into your pocket. Then if the enterprise stumbles and ends up being sold for, say, $9 million, you won't feel like a total idiot. Is this still the case? Are VCs willing to do deals like this (especially early on, say in a Series A round)?