Startup founders who got funding and later wished they hadn't
Did any members of the community here succesfully get funding but later wished they hadn't? And why?
Your question reminds me of something I read about Larry Ellison:
"Ellison claims his greatest lesson while from Gene Amdahl was never to take venture capital money. Amdahl took vc money, and they fired him."
ArsDigita was a good story about funding killing the company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita
Though, another POV suggests that it was the greediness around newfound money: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita
Not quite the same, but reminds me of joshu's comment about wishing he hadn't sold delicious to Yahoo http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754339