Having a goal of not raising capital seems like a silly goal to state. I think you better addressed it in your actual post: "concerned with creating an amazin

Having a goal of not raising capital seems like a silly goal to state. I think you better addressed it in your actual post: "concerned with creating an amazing product, growing slowly, having it cover its own costs, and becoming profitable as soon as possible " I took amazing product and becoming profitable (same as covering costs, no?) as self explanatory and not needing explanation. However, growing slowly needs a reason in my mind. There may be some justification, but you haven't stated why. I also don't like limiting ones options for arbitrary reasons, you might need a big pile of cash to take your product to the next level despite being profitable. VC could really important at that point because the opportunity might be time sensitive.