Even though I get tired of all the "rules" the entrepreneurial community sets out, half of which contradict the other half, I can completely relate to "slow and steady is bullshit" idea.<p>I started a company when I was 23 and found product-market fit almost immediately. But, being young, naive and completely unexposed to "real" entrepreneurship, I tried to grow the company organically, customer by customer, market by market (in my case, TV markets) rather than raise money. I woke up every day, hit my cold call targets, and spent the rest of the time coding, dealing with other IT issues, recruiting, managing employees, bookkeeping, etc.<p>While I was busy gathering rinky-dink customers in one corner of the country, my competitors raised money, expanded nationwide, and completely ate my lunch.<p>While this may be of the "well, that sounds like a personal problem" variety, I believe the following holds true when a new "gold mine" (i.e. as yet unrecognized market opportunity) is discovered by one or more companies:<p>"Even if you're growing, if you're not growing like crazy, you're falling behind, comparatively."<p>For example, let's say there's a company competing with Uber that's growing by 2x per year. In a vacuum, that's great, right? But not in reality. Uber is growing at like 100x per year and will eventually destroy that company.<p>So yes, I completely agree with OP, a least in terms of startups.