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Wow. Eric and Elizabeth Lefkosky turned a $1m angel investment (according to crunchbase) into $380m cash in 4 years.



I remember reading a pretty nasty article about Eric Lefkosky.

"InnerWorkings goes to great lengths to obscure its ownership and control by a chap named Eric P. Lefkofsky who has a history of busting investors after promising to radically transform bricks-and-mortar industries. He seems to identify with Dr. Seuss's huckster: he called his last business Starbelly.com, a venture that rapidly went into bankruptcy and provoked fraud suits by investors alleging that Starbelly's software was never what Lefkofsky promised. "

http://notablecalls1.blogspot.com/2007/01/inner-workings-of-...


That huckster could have been seen as providing a public service. Or, well, earning a fortune with the public service as a side benefit.

In other words, seems like this comparison is giving the huckster a bad rap!


Yes. Stay clear of Lefkofsky and Lightbank http://lightbank.com/




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