To add, VC is for when you have a market that is large enough to pay off their investment with something left over. There are a lot a business opportunities out there that only can return a million per year and they won't scale. This isn't worth VC time, but if you can find one, a million - overhead is still a nice income for you the private business owner. Just remember that as a business owner you need to watch the bottom line, many small businesses go under because they don't account for all the costs of running a business (both time doing bookwork instead of what the business is about and costs of supplies)