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Go it alone as long as you can.

• astrowilliam 13y ago
  Why so? I plan on going it alone for the next 5-10 years. This is my true passion and I don't intend on stopping any time soon.
  • Guest978120 13y ago
    Why do you need investors? Is a lack of funds holding you back at the moment? I run a site with 6 million uniques a year, and half a million registered users. I do it alone. Investors sounds like a headache. Right now my site pays for itself, and my life. If I want to take a month long vacation, I go on vacation. If I had an investor, I go back to having a regular job, and answering to someone else. That has very little appeal to me. This works in my situation because my project is fairly polished at this point, and the content is entirely user driven, so I simply work on sorting out the occasion bug, managing the servers, and carefully planning the direction to take the site, and features to develop. More money, more offices, more employees wouldn't bring anything to the table, aside from more stress. If you have a project that needs people out there selling, that needs people writing content, that needs more developers, or that needs more capital, then maybe you do need an investor. This isn't always the case though.
    • astrowilliam 13y ago
      The reason I'd like investors is to bring on more content creators. At this point I don't need them, but in the future I know this will become overwhelming so I'm thinking ahead.
      • nicholas73 13y ago
        I was astonished to hear what my friend paid his content writers (on a millions/month user celebrity gossip site)... let's just say it's around minimum wage. You don't need a VC for that, even if your topic takes a bit more edification.