Do venture capitalists have an ethical duty to startups?

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by Sindy Cator on July 1, 2014 at 2:49 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

Janine Yancey is the CEO & President of Emtrain — an organization dedicated to creating user-friendly, memorable and scalable ethics and harassment prevention training for the workplace. Before I get into the “ethical duty” mentioned in the title, allow me to quickly run a few things by you. In the past few months, we’ve seen a number of entrepreneurs at startups make some serious ethical and professional mistakes. It started with GitHub — a founder and his wife making inappropriate comments and requests of a female software developer. Shortly after, we had an Uber team that felt it was “okay” to begin…