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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. It says if you want to make “real” money - quit. Get some famous angel or seed money.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

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I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic. But in all reasonable circumstances were in.