[blackrock]

This may be true for small lifestyle type businesses.

But some problems can only be solved with VC money. Because of time limitations.

You may only have a small window of opportunity to capture a certain market.

If you grew linearly, and built up product idea A, in order to fund product idea B, in order to fund product idea C, then by the time you’re done with product idea B, a decade may have passed by. You’ve also grown older, and may not have the energy of your younger self anymore.

Also, a competitor, one with a larger funding pool, may have jumped in and captured that market, right in front of you.

[fishingisfun]

I agree. I can use the example of flappy bird for this. Overnight development teams pumped out 3d versions of his game with better controls than the original. Sometimes timing is important for small players because other teams can take your idea and execute better and faster once they know the market is there for such a program or product.