More importantly though, the “spirit” of the idea has legs. With investment dollars getting tighter and tighter, entrepreneurs are having a harder and harder time crafting deals that make any sense at all for them. Worse than that, many of them don’t have enough education in the nuts and bolts of this sort of thing to understand when they’re getting shafted.

Hopefully, a few hearts to hearts with successful entrepreneurs will, if nothing else, give them some ammunition to walk into their next pitch.