[roosterjm2k2]

Anyone remember the day where you just made a business, and built it over time, and nourished it into a successful company? Where you didnt beg for money from investors and build your entire plan around using someone else's money? Where the best businesses came out on top, and not the best flashy idea or happenchance encounter with a VC? I don't get why every freaking idea has to be tied up in investors to take off, when if its a valid, profitable business, it would build on its own, and prove itself a strong business without needing help...

Im just tired of seeing so much tech tied up in the politics of investors...

[sreitshamer]

I think it's that those are the only businesses you hear about in the press.

[oldmanjay]

You seem to have an ideal of purity in mind that I don't believe ever existed. I certainly can't think of a time when "the best business came out on top" as a general rule, unless you make the definition tautological.

No one is forced to "beg" for money from investors. Every entrepreneur has the choice to go it alone and build things the way you describe. Parsimoniously, that means that the VC market adds value to those who choose to use it.