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title: 'What precludes you from investing in early stage startups?'
date: '2021-03-26T12:40:40-07:00'
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# What precludes you from investing in early stage startups?

> Serious question: Apart from capital, are there other things that are currently precluding you from investing in an early stage startup?
> 
> — Rick Turoczy (@turoczy) [March 26, 2021](https://twitter.com/turoczy/status/1375514808196341760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)



Would love to hear your take on this. “Accreditation” is coming up quite a bit. As is “risk aversion.” There’s also a thread going on the [Portland startups Slack](https://pdxstartups.slack.com/archives/C0AL5389X/p1616785597070800).