You don't raise money if you don't want to be a VC funded hypergrowth company. If you don't aim that high no one funds you anyway. It's a difference in definiti

You don't raise money if you don't want to be a VC funded hypergrowth company. If you don't aim that high no one funds you anyway. It's a difference in definitions, for their definitions see Paul Graham's startup = growth But yeah once you take the money and you need that exit, you're going to have a hard time. It's up to the founder to decide from the beginning