Aaron Dinin, PhD
1 min readNov 20, 2019

Good question. I find myself thinking that if you genuinely believe you are going to be cash-flow positive in the near term but need funding, you should consider alternate funding sources. Simply put, VC may not be right for you.

Banks and loans could be one way to go. Alternately, if you still want/need the risk profile of investors, consider angels or angel groups. Angel groups (particularly those outside the big tech hubs) will often happily accept companies needing limited capital and having a higher likelihood of a “small and fast” exist.

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Aaron Dinin, PhD
Aaron Dinin, PhD

Written by Aaron Dinin, PhD

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com

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