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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own

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tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Or what “participating preferred&# stock is and how it can screw you. This article originally ran on TechCrunch.