Re:How to Start a Startup (2014)
by codingdave on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:37AM
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To be clear, he is incentivized to dish out advice that is good for the investors. That is not always the same thing as good for the founders. A solid, sustainable, bootstrapped, slow-growth company is great for founders. But you won't find advice on how to do that. On the contrary, you'll often find it dismissed as "not a startup".
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Re:How to Start a Startup (2014)
by Rastonbury on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:35AM
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You don't raise money if you don't want to be a VC funded hypergrowth company. If you don't aim that high no one funds you anyway. It's a difference in definitions, for their definitions see Paul Graham's startup = growth
But yeah once you take the money and you need that exit, you're going to have a hard time. It's up to the founder to decide from the beginning