[scarface74]

If you take venture funding - by definition you’re not trying to run a lifestyle business - your only goal is an exit strategy.

[rorykoehler]

Whose exit strategy? The companies or your own.

[scarface74]

What’s the difference? If you take investor money you have given up control of your own fate.

[kjs3]

When I did my (one, never again if I can help it) venture funded startup, "the only goal is an exit strategy" came up a lot, and always when one of the founders talked about a growth opportunity that would pay off over years and not months.