There's a world of difference between, at one end, taking VC that puts you on a rocket ride of "get rich or die"; or, at the other end, not taking any money at

There's a world of difference between, at one end, taking VC that puts you on a rocket ride of "get rich or die"; or, at the other end, not taking any money at all so that you cannot hire even 1 engineer to help you making the essential backup service into something that's one bus away from losing all my data.