You Don’t Need Investment to Start a Successful Company

Four wrong reasons to seek venture capital and what to do instead

Joe Procopio
6 min readApr 22, 2021

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A lot of advisor-type people will tell an entrepreneur that their startup is either investable or it isn’t, with no middle ground. Experience has taught me that there is always middle ground when it comes to seeking investment.

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com