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You won’t believe this entrepreneur’s response to a ‘no’ from First Round Capital

Or: How to burn bridges.

We know nothing about the backstory of this tweet from First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman, but we’re gonna go ahead and say this is probably not the best way to correspond with investors (or anyone else, for that matter):


Update:
Kopelman was not alone in receiving the scorn of this frustrated founder.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Cowan got the same snail-mailed missive:

Companies: First Round Capital

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