Raising money from VCs means that your business must one day become an unicorn. That’s just how VC math works [1][2]. But what if you don’t like the low odds of building a unicorn? What if you’d love to build a unicorn but you’d also be happy with a 50M business or a 5M business? That type of non-unicorn business, one that’s a cash cow and one that would make you - the founder - a life changing amount of money, isn’t interesting to VCs.
Non-VC Funding Options
Non-VC Funding Options
Non-VC Funding Options
Raising money from VCs means that your business must one day become an unicorn. That’s just how VC math works [1][2]. But what if you don’t like the low odds of building a unicorn? What if you’d love to build a unicorn but you’d also be happy with a 50M business or a 5M business? That type of non-unicorn business, one that’s a cash cow and one that would make you - the founder - a life changing amount of money, isn’t interesting to VCs.