The Slippery Slope of the Venture Capital Startup Growth Trap

Four ways to make sure you’re not just throwing money at growth to see what sticks

Joe Procopio
4 min readNov 26, 2021

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Here’s a move out of the venture capital playbook that tends to punch entrepreneurs in the gut.

Investors give your startup a bunch of money to scale, they expect you to hire seasoned people for…

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com