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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

[link] Matt Wrench “The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds. I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. It’s a small sign, but still a sign. Think Again.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.