VCs are not all created equal. Some are better than others. Some like to stick to a company’s vision unless things are clearly not working while others don’t care and will make you flail around. Some understand and specialize in a given market and others just throw spaghetti at the wall. Some are decent people and some are assholes.
Terms matter a lot too. If you raise a ton or raise on a super high multiple you will have to show cocaine growth to make that make sense. If you raise sanely the expectations are going to be more sane. (Lots of companies raised overstuffed rounds in 2021 to 2022 at batshit multiples. Expect some carnage soon.)
That being said it does put you on a certain track. If you don’t have something that can show VC scale growth, you shouldn’t take VC money. As with all other things know what you are getting into.
Right now I would consider VC for B2B but not B2C. There are no VC scale B2C business models right now that do not involve exploiting people. B2B can be done in much more above board ways because businesses will just pay for things directly. You will have to build a sales org though.
Terms matter a lot too. If you raise a ton or raise on a super high multiple you will have to show cocaine growth to make that make sense. If you raise sanely the expectations are going to be more sane. (Lots of companies raised overstuffed rounds in 2021 to 2022 at batshit multiples. Expect some carnage soon.)
That being said it does put you on a certain track. If you don’t have something that can show VC scale growth, you shouldn’t take VC money. As with all other things know what you are getting into.
Right now I would consider VC for B2B but not B2C. There are no VC scale B2C business models right now that do not involve exploiting people. B2B can be done in much more above board ways because businesses will just pay for things directly. You will have to build a sales org though.