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My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor

6 points| bernieyoo | 12 years ago

You encounter lots of crazy people while fundraising for your startup. The results can be entertaining. Here's my favorite:

https://medium.com/p/872e3afdec9f

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ColinWright|12 years ago

Is there any particular reason why you didn't do the usual thing and submit the actual link, including your "descriptive" text in the actual article?

bernieyoo|12 years ago

No particular reason, just giving a 2-sentence context to why I posted the link.

CrossWired|12 years ago

Good job dodging these guys.

BTW, I'm an active client of yours and love what you have going.

rajacombinator|12 years ago

Why edit out their names? You should expose these morons so others don't waste time with them. Also your reply email was way too polite.

_pius|12 years ago

Good post, just wish you'd name the "investor."

bernieyoo|12 years ago

Email me. bernie[at]bombfell[dot]com