[dcheong]

Thanks for the follow up. I'll stress again, I'm not implying there are any hard/fast rules as you can see from the comments I've made here. If I have set the wrong impression, my apologies.

We all know here that being an entrepreneur is more like art than science. There is no one true way. Something which worked for someone in one instance may not work for you even if by rationale it makes sense and all the stars are aligned.

[tptacek]

It's also the case that not wanting to kowtow to investors is a valid reason for bootstrapping. It's why we switched to bootstrapping a few weeks into talking to VC --- the VC pitches were fucking up our product plan.