alt Hacker NewsVC funding gets you paid, which is a good thing.
Not getting paid is less good.
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grishka • yesterday at 4:24 PM
VC funding gets you enslaved. There's no such thing as free money.
latexr • yesterday at 5:18 PM
> VC funding gets you paid
So does robbing a bank. But it’s far from the only option. Plenty of indie developers thrive without any VC funding, and I thank every one of them for it. VC funding is essentially a guarantee that if the software isn’t shit now, it’ll be in the future, and that the creators care more about the money than doing something good. Case in point, the deterioration of 1Password.
But more and more, as a user, VC funding is a pretty good sign that either the product is shit or later will become shit.
Which is great because it means whenever I can I should go with the underdogs and SMBs.