Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2014

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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