{
  "id": 17259732,
  "title": "These Founders Chose Profitability Over Venture Capital. Here’s Why.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/these-founders-chose-profitability-over-venture-capital-heres-why",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-30T16:21:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/inc-video/these-founders-chose-profitability-over-venture-capital-heres-why/91428623"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Emily Hikade of Petite Plume and Lindsey Johnson of Weezie both considered outside funding, then chose more restrained paths. They explain the tradeoffs of keeping control, funding inventory, and avoiding the pressure to raise again and again.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}