[daxorid]

Indeed. The flip-side to this is that speculative investment on unprofitable moonshots seems to be where ALL the equity-finance money is.

My company reliably earns low-7-figures on high-7-figures revenue, with respectable but not amazing growth, but the only capital "market" open to us is bank loans and merchant financing.

Nobody cares about boring profitability.

[scarface74]

Why is that a bad thing? If you are profitable, why would you want to give up equity and control?

[x0x0]

Serious question -- why would you want something besides a bank loan? Because a loan at a couple of percent is way cheaper than VC, who will typically want at least 20% of your company?