[mattbuilds]

I wish we could stay away from generalities. There is no one size fits all answer to questions like "should I take funding?". The answer depends on your goals and where you are competing.

If what you are trying to do is capital intensive, has tons of competition and generally will need the scale in order to compete/turn a profit, you should probably take VC funding.

If you want full control over your product or are operating in a niche and think the explosive growth necessary will hinder you, you have different priorities. You might not be trying to make the next "big thing" and in this case probably don't take funding. In fact, you probably don't want VC funding because your goals don't align with theirs.

Like most difficult questions, the answer is: it depends.

[Nevermark]

Few people are pedantic enough to misinterpret “never” slash “always” premises detrimentally.

It is a pervasive rhetorical shortcut.

1. Flatten a proposition to an all or nothing form to simplify communication.

2. The reader steps back into the real multidimensional world with clearer insight into one of its dimensions.

Anyone confused by this has deeper problems than VC or not VC questions.