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> I wonder how you can grow a company without outside investors? Either you are a very rich founder or you can try to grow it organically but very slowly. If you attempt to do the later you'll find yourself in a position where is very hard to succeed, moreso if your company doesn't do anything new and the competition has lots of cash to succeed.

Hard is fine. The point is, taking VC money makes building the company (you wanted to build) straight up impossible.

Turns out building companies is very difficult. If the first thing you do is sell out, perhaps you don’t have what it takes.

>>throwu+(OP)
>Hard is fine. The point is, taking VC money makes building the company (you wanted to build) straight up impossible.

What if you and the venture capitalists are on the same page and have the same goals?

Or what if you keep control, have a good money making plan and you don't ask for funding just to pay expenses and acquire unpaying users but use those funds for growth?

>>DeathA+H3
Isn't that arguably what Ello thought they were doing?