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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. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash. In fact, venture capital financing may even be detrimental to your startup’s health. Investors don’t like risk any better than you do. In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital.