[0des]

On a sidenote, I'd be interested in reading an article exploring the inverse of this! How to -not- raise investment. Most people look at funding like "yeah well I mean that's just the thing you do" but it's not for all cases. Sometimes tossing gasoline on something is just enough to make it fizzle.

I'm looking forward to the pendulum swinging back around to 2022, bring on the slow-biz startups, the organic growth, gimme 2x and 3x, bootstrapped on shoestrings, companies run by people who created those companies.

I have this reflex every time I see something cool now where I can't enjoy new SaaS offerings because I'm always trying to imagine the ways in which this new cool thing can backfire and frustrate me once it takes funding or goes public. I don't think it's a problem in me, either, that model just sucks.

[satvikpendem]

You might be interested in indie hacking or bootstrapping as phrases to google when looking for such articles.

www.indiehackers.com

www.bootstrappers.com

[FinanceAnon]

I like this article: “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps”

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/23/18193685/venture-capital-money...