Years ago a VC who passed on my startup drove my co-founders and myself past a restaurant in the western Philly suburbs. He pointed to it and declared that he a

Years ago a VC who passed on my startup drove my co-founders and myself past a restaurant in the western Philly suburbs. He pointed to it and declared that he and his father had almost bought it. "Why didn't you," I asked. He laughed derisively. "Because we realized you could only fill the tables, and once you did that was it: you'd never make any more money."