Bangalore: Everybody regrets at some point of time for various reasons, but a common man’s regret generally doesn’t include blowing trillions of dollars. It is generally the concern of businessmen or venture capitalists who, at sometime took a bad decision and lost great money. Many people think being a capitalist is the best way to earn money, of course it is, but sometimes a bad decision can ruin all venture castles in about a minute. This statement of VC business flipping into the wrong side can be well backed with a study by National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the study says - about 40 percent of venture backed companies fail, 40 percent return moderate amounts of capital, and only 20 percent or less produce high returns. Listed below are few companies, who were then startups, approached some VC’s for funding but they denied it and now they strongly regret for that decision, as reported by Venturebeat.com.

Apple Inc

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari missed a jackpot when he passed on the opportunity to own one third of Apple for just $50,000. He thought that it would be a bad idea to invest in Apple.