Great article. That being said, this article also presents "the best life" of dealing with VCs. Just try this next time you are in front of investors: "Well, our product is not completely finished and I don't know when it will be, our sales pipeline has been stuck for months, our 1st customers are not paying us until we fix all the bugs they found....life in paradise!"....now how many VC do you know would fund such a startup...but they do! How: by ignoring the truth and not listening to the lies...