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Venture fund tries to sue entrepreneur who left negative comment on The Funded - bad idea

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

VentureBeat reported yesterday that venture firm EDF is attempting to take legal action against an entrepreneur who left a negative comment about them on VC review site The Funded. The entrepreneur advised against dealing with EDF ‘unless you are desparate’.
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Henry Michaels
10 months ago

I can believe that a company would even try such drastic tactics. The legal action itself casts a bad reflection against the company. That's one! Number two is...we as consumers don't have the right to give our opinion any longer. Come on!!

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ChrisH
10 months ago

I think a lovely example of "nowhere to hide" is the current WrapIt meltdown.

For those that don't know, WrapIt is a wedding list servce that went into administration at the start of the month.

These disgruntled customers set up a forum http://www.wrapitcustomers.com/popular/all and *then* found links to a management conusltancy news site that alleges that directors got some loans paid back a few weeks before the company went bust. This information would only have been available to specialists ten years ago.

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Alan Munro
10 months ago

You can't hide on the internet. Transparency is good for good business and maybe it's about time that some VCs were made to feel more accountable too.

If I was inclined to nip over to The Funded now and leave comments about VCs, man, I'd be there all day ...

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