Could the Professor Who Inspired Star Wars Make You Better at Raising Venture Capital?

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
4 min readDec 14, 2023

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If you’re an entrepreneur struggling to raise venture capital, it’s probably because you don’t know the work of a literature professor from the 1970s named Joseph Campbell.

Yes… a 1970s literature professor.

I realize the kind of people reading nerdy, tech entrepreneurship articles don’t care…

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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