Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Crowdfunding may look easy, via popular sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, but their cost in time, effort, and money by entrepreneurs is daunting. Professional investors like to keep tight control of capitalization tables and all stock owners, to facilitate their own payoff when a sale, merger, or public stock offering is held.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

1 vote by Elad Gil It's a risk/reward, supply/demand power equilibrium. The risk to the entrepreneur is that he loses several tens of millions of dollars in opportunity cost. Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Joshua Seims , ?_? I'm always su. This answer.

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APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Moreover, once high-flying startups began to struggle on the fundraising trail.

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