Should I raise venture capital or bootstrap?

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Accepted Answer

Raise when the market is being decided now, when a competitor winning it first ends you, and when money buys speed you cannot buy any other way. Bootstrap when customers can fund the growth, margins are healthy, and the outcome you want is a profitable company rather than a billion-dollar one. This free test scores ten factors and returns a verdict.

Raise or Bootstrap?

If you did nothing different for two years, what happens to this market?