One Type of Founder Investors Hate Funding

You’d be surprised by what kinds of unexpected things can make investors say “no”

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readJul 17, 2023

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I invited a local venture capitalist to speak with my entrepreneurship class at Duke. Once he’d finished sharing his story and discussing the industry, I opened the floor to questions. Most of the questions were typical, young-entrepreneur questions…

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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