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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. Trying to get a fledgling venture off the ground is a full time job, and then some. It will distract the entrepreneur from doing the more important work of getting the venture onto a productive path.