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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. You don’t read about these garden variety outcomes online – only the high profile exits or busts. I’m not trying to be negative.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. You don’t read about these garden variety outcomes online – only the high profile exits or busts. I’m not trying to be negative.