"But I challenge your assertion that we'd need 'big growth just to survive'" You say this while literally telling me that your big hope was to get a pile of mo

"But I challenge your assertion that we'd need 'big growth just to survive'" You say this while literally telling me that your big hope was to get a pile of money so that you could "bend" your growth curve towards reaching bare profitability after about another year. When would a realistic assessment of your actual growth curve say you'd reach that point? Was there enough customer base that you could actually reach to get to that point, much less beyond? I won't call your plans "dumb", but the whole startup approach is one that almost always fails, even compared to starting other businesses. It's really hard to call it "smart".