The Scary Choice This Startup Made Before Raising $8.8 Million
In February 2013, Evgeny Tchebotarev met with his four-person leadership team at 500px, an online photography community he had co-founded in 2009 with Oleg Gutsol, a longtime friend. They were in the middle of a fundraising campaign but hadn't found a single interested investor. Some of Tchebotarev's leaders felt that there was a change that [...]