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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. Don’t go into VC.”.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. Don’t go into VC.”.