Why bother with investing, why not just build it small and sustainable to begin with?

jamessb 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

In this case, I think VC investment was essentially required because the idea for Val Town originally came from a VC (Dan Levine), rather than a founder - see 9.04ish onwards from the interview with Steve Krouse: https://puckacademy.substack.com/p/steve-krouse-on-val-towns...

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anewhnaccount2 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think that's what's he's cooking now: https://github.com/mech-lang I still keep checking on it. There were a lot of great ideas in Eve.

	▲	grimgrin 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To be clear, the "he" is not Steve, but the parent poster. Maybe obvious, wasn't to me 8)

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unshavedyak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That was my question. The little i understood of ValTown seemed like a sustainable, small business. No need for it to get huge. As long as it doesn't require hosting cheaper than customers would be wiling to pay. Given the type of services you could probably multi-tenant the boxes quite heavily and predictably (lots of crons you understand, etc).

I didn't look at it closely, but everything i saw looked like a great small business. VC money seems confusing, i must be missing a lot.

	▲	bombcar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If you're in the "vc-world" a small business is hard to wrap your brain around; it's an entirely different think and thing.