There are over 300 independently available email spam blacklists. The people who run these blacklists hate email abuse. How much do you, the entrepreneur community, hate abuse by investors?<p>Hard working founder finds investors who pretend to ‘give him a chance’ while taking control of the company behind the scenes... Have you heard this story? Investors have the right to get a return and know what is going on in a company; they cross the line when they force their agenda, treating entrepreneurs like employees.<p>Entrepreneurship is not just another job. For starters, it is less financially rewarding except for a few unicorns. Entrepreneurs blaze their own trails because they are on a journey of self-discovery. When investors meddle and take control, they are restricting the freedom that entrepreneurs work so hard to create. Investors have an advantage in lawyers, money and time. Entrepreneurs have few tools to fight back. What if there was an early warning system for entrepreneurs to check before accepting investment?<p>This early warning system would look a lot like an email blacklist. Instead of a server’s IP or domain being the primary key, the blacklist would key off the URL of an Angel List profile––or better yet a LinkedIn profile. It would cost $35 for an entrepreneur to submit an incident report. Multiple incident reports can be filed by an entrepreneur against the same investor for multiple bad deeds.<p>Even better if this was on the dark web so that investors couldn’t use abuse the legal system to make entrepreneurs stop sharing the truth. I could just see investors (who are the ones with the money) trying to bury this system in legal motions knowing that the entrepreneurs can’t afford to respond.<p>If anyone has the technical chops and desire to build this, I say go for it. Let me know when your first version is ready, so I can file my incident reports.
Spamhaus meets Angel List