Great comment. On the metaphor end, while traveling I usually wind up moving around based on meeting people who live in the country, it usually leads to some re

Great comment. On the metaphor end, while traveling I usually wind up moving around based on meeting people who live in the country, it usually leads to some really memorable but non-flashy memories... no Mount Fuji's, but lots of hole in the wall spots hanging out with great people, off the wall drum concerts, and more of the day to day experiences of being in another country. I think the cool part of your comment is the implicit point of timeframe- if you have less time, your best bet is to make sure you have a great experience by going the big bang route- making sure you hit the top of Mount Fuji and making sure you hit the major parts of the country. If you have more time, or are sure you'll return, you can just kind of fall forward through the travel experience and see what happens. Relating it back to business, if you look at Starbucks or Walmart, they expanded aggressively, but there was a 20 year time-frame there for building out the business. They had time, they used it to the full for sure, but they also were able to execute on their long-term plan. I think the whole raise funding -> one year runway -> sink or swim flow is just an odd way to build a long-term business. We started off approaching things from that perspective, it didn't work, and we fell into our current approach- my viewpoint is completely dictated by my very limited experience. Our long-term plans are massive in scale, but our short-term plans are two week ship periods to grow revenue and give us a more solid base to operate off of.