[ironch456]

Ok, I realize it is cool now to tell everyone on the internet your business...but what you have written here could be interpreted as suggesting that this company is stupid for "dumping money into me when I have no product, no team, and no background experience." You are doing this in a post on Hacker News...which many, many, many people read.

Why are you sharing the exact names of both the company and the startup you work for? Do you think that some of the people at those companies may not read Hacker News?

Do yourself a favor and scrub this article of references to who you are talking about before you ruin this opportunity for yourself. If they believe you are someone who posts all their business dealings on the internet for everyone to see, they are not going to want to fund you anymore.

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Thanks for the reply. I put up the names in case anyone had experience with them or was able to find more information on them than I could. I don't know the parent company very well (hopefully I will soon), but they've given me much more important information than this that they've told me not to disclose and I haven't. In hindsight, it was probably better not to include the company names, but I can't edit my post anymore. Lesson learned.