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What I'd like to publicly question is: can anyone cite instances in which venture capital companies took control, brought in outsiders, and turned a business into a rousing success?If I'm not mistaken, Cisco is in fact such a case: VCs came in, the founders got kicked out, and—despite their troubles in the first few months of this year—I'd still consider the company a moderate, if not rousing, success.Funny thing is, at one point, Philip read The Cisco Connection, a book about Cisco the business, and talked a lot about the lessons from Cisco that ArsDigita should copy. But he never seemed to mention this little fact :-)