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In my pov: I would reject offer because I don't think there is any need of any type of funding and and try to work on my team which is already talented, strategies to grow it and try to expand my team, so that we can evaluate and complete the demands of our consumer,and to expand it I would try new marketing strategies , Something new something better than before

I would accept the VC offer for the following reasons: 1. Accelerating Growth:The $2 million investment will provide the necessary capital to expand the team, invest in technology, and increase production capacity, allowing the company to capitalize on the expanding market. This can help outpace the competitor. 2. Mitigating Risk:While bootstrapping maintains control, it also limits your ability to scale quickly. Given the market dynamics and competitor pressure, taking the investment reduces the risk of being outmaneuvered.

Worse deal, considering the offer of $8M valuation at 25% equity for $2M, the current ARR(Annual RunRate) of the company is $2.4M and considering the market is expanding at 2X rate y-o-y(min.) , they company will take around 3 years to reach that valuation. So my take is to not dissolve quarter of the company ownership at such lesser valuation instead negotiate or wait for a better offer.

If you have long term vision for company and your team is small but talented then you should keep it bootstrapped because now or later you will manage to get good funding with less dilution of equity and also for compeptitior getting traction you should be doing social media marketing that will develop your brand's presence for free or very nominal cost

25%is more but 18%is sufficient for exchange of $2million that's help in to reduce the control of company and use of funded amount in increasing the good skilled staff and expend the business through marketing

25% is quite a lot for $2 Million. So now gonna go for that. Would try to find other investors (if i need money) and if didn't got. Would continue to be bootstrapped.

If any new Investors are not available for me then i will try to get a debt for capturing market share also giving 25% Equity is bad decision at this stage because market is growing and in future you need to do new rounds for getting better funding also for increasing resources i will use 50% reserved funds.

Go ahead and raise 2M