Re: A Microsoft venture fund

Karthik Narayanaswami — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:52:44 -0000

$25,000 per founder and $100,000? That's peanuts. I think capable entrepreneurs can raise much, much more from angel investors and friends & family. I'd argue that you need to be investing at least 1 million in the company and $100,000 per founder. You want your founders to be happy and productive, don't you? Not all founders are teenagers and college freshmen. Many have families and children. The idea is to make entrepreneurship easy and accessible, not turn it into a test of poverty and suffering.

Re: A Microsoft venture fund

Mark MacLeod — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:21:20 -0000

I see the benefit for Microsoft but see a few issues: 
 
1.) Would a startup want money from them? 
2.) Would a startup trust them to not take the idea sooner or later? 
3.) Would MS invest in a startup that's developing in a LAMP environment (I don't know of one startup using .net as an example)? 
4.) What changes in process, culture, etc would need to be made throughout MS for this to be successful? 
 
Mark

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