On: Venture backed or bootstrapped? There's a third wa...

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I'd wager most venture-backed companies only raise one round, and this endless-money fever dream is the rarity

do you have some statistics to that? i'd expect that most startups that raise only once do so because they failed before they could raise again.

how many startups raise once and then become a successful profitable business without ever raising again? that's what "this third" way is about.