[thayne]

> As a result, this approach often falls short of investors' expectations for significant returns, which makes it hard to raise funding and thus prevents most founders from being able to go full-time on their project.

This is IMO, a major problem with VC. VC doesn't care about funding companies that are moderately profitable. They only care about companies with extreme growth that can lead to an extremely lucrative exit. Which means that viable business models that might work well with Open Source may not be attractive to VCs.