

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

The SoftBank question

How does a startup founder decide between putting a long, in-the-works Initial Public Offering (IPO) plan on hold and taking money from SoftBank and continuing to remain private?


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Those magnificent men in their flying machines. To all of us observing them from terra firma below, the high-flying founders of startups that have achieved escape velocity might seem like demi-gods. Infallible beings who have it all figured out. How to raise hundreds of millions of dollars of funding. How to scale your company to…


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