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by username223 4090 days ago
> prepare a founder to turn down several million dollars of extra runway to try for the big exit.

Every huckster thinks he can pull off the big pump-n-dump. Most don't.

> the business model was effectively a shakedown,

Sure sounds like it. Protection rackets only work if you can beat people up and burn their stuff, and GetSatisfaction failed to do either. Too bad, so sad.