This article has a point, warning of some dangers of taking risk capital, but
it is too biased against it: better, more balanced advice would be to say: there
are use cases for risk capital, but there are also many use cases where bootstrapping or debt capital (taking a loan, borrowing money) is the right financing approach instead.
It all depends on how capital intensive your business is, and how fast you want or must grow to become how large.
It all depends on how capital intensive your business is, and how fast you want or must grow to become how large.