My Former Investors Wanted to Invest In My Next Startup (Even After I’d Lost All Their Money)

What if losing all an investor’s money isn’t as bad as most entrepreneurs think?

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readNov 13, 2023

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Everyone deserves an occasional mulligan

One of the worst parts about raising venture capital for your startup is that it nearly guarantees an incredibly awkward conversation at some unknown point in the future…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com