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Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible

Pattern Breakers

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I Think Your Guy Is Smoking Crack?

Ben Huhn: "We did successfully raise sea round in june of two thousand, and that was like a harbinger of things to come" He says the company's interstructure was so expensive they couldn't sell their way out of it. The board told him all the reasons why he didn't think we were ready to go public. Hahn: We had three weeks of cash when we hit the road but still burned an enormous amount of cash.

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