Startup founders who got funding and later wished they hadn't

[eliot_sykes]

Did any members of the community here succesfully get funding but later wished they hadn't? And why?

[subud]

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]

ArsDigita was a good story about funding killing the company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita

Though, another POV suggests that it was the greediness around newfound money: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita

[eliot_sykes]

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