When Dan Oglevee teaches MBA students at Ohio State University, he draws on his own painful dot-bust experience to convey how not to form a venture-backed business.
Oglevee started an early wireless telecommunications company in late 1999. The New York City startup and a spinoff online magazine raised a combined $2.5 million but lasted just over two years amid showdowns with investors, an HR nightmare and skyrocketing expenses. He returned to his alma mater, OSU, where he’s a senior lecturer at…
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