My cofounder refused the idea of seeking accelerators (even YC, at least for now) for more or less that reason. He (and the seed investors) agreed that the comp

My cofounder refused the idea of seeking accelerators (even YC, at least for now) for more or less that reason. He (and the seed investors) agreed that the company will do what we wish only. We are now happily seeking investments that are bigger than an angel, but smaller than VC, specially from private individuals, in a way to not be pressured into the classic VC model (ie: not having to exit, or return the VC investment in 5 years and so on)