Startup founders who got funding and later wished they hadn't 4 points by eliot_sykes 16y ago ↗ HN Did any members of the community here succesfully get funding but later wished they hadn't? And why?
[–] eliot_sykes 16y ago ↗ Not quite the same, but reminds me of joshu's comment about wishing he hadn't sold delicious to Yahoo http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754339
[–] subud 16y ago ↗ Your question reminds me of something I read about Larry Ellison:"Ellison claims his greatest lesson while from Gene Amdahl was never to take venture capital money. Amdahl took vc money, and they fired him."http://www.businessinsider.com/ceosfirstjobs/larry-ellison
[–] coverband 16y ago ↗ ArsDigita was a good story about funding killing the company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigitaThough, another POV suggests that it was the greediness around newfound money: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 16.1 ms ] thread"Ellison claims his greatest lesson while from Gene Amdahl was never to take venture capital money. Amdahl took vc money, and they fired him."
http://www.businessinsider.com/ceosfirstjobs/larry-ellison
Though, another POV suggests that it was the greediness around newfound money: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita