[kijin]

Settling down with a mediocre product that sustains your company should probably count as success. The vast majority of startups fail, after all. You might have failed to produce a unicorn, but at least you've got a decent workhorse.

[sgarman]

VC's have twisted the idea of what a success is for normal entrepreneurs because it doesn't fit VC's 100 failures, 1 unicorn model.