Perhaps if the investors in these Midwest startups enabled founders to take some funds off the table from a round, it could help to alleviate this problem.<p>If founders have all the stress of low salary + not much savings + lots of work to do + maybe starting a family, of course a $10M exit starts to look good.<p>But if they&#x27;re achieving good results, why not give the founders a small taste of the billion dollar carrot?