It comes down to whether you want organic or exponential growth. If you make a high quality product that's hard to reproduce well, organic growth is fine, your long-term prospects will be good because you have a reputation for craft, quality control etc. If you have a relatively simple offering that's easy to copy, then you want exponential growth so you can maximize your market share and become the default brand in that space. Maybe you make very tiny profits from each person that uses it, but if there are a lot of them and 80% of them use your thing, then you will get rich. In the latter case you definitely want venture capital because it's ultimately about quantity over quality (and this will become increasingly obvious over time, but many prefer market dominance to being the best).
I think you mean 'scratches a major itch'.
It comes down to whether you want organic or exponential growth. If you make a high quality product that's hard to reproduce well, organic growth is fine, your long-term prospects will be good because you have a reputation for craft, quality control etc. If you have a relatively simple offering that's easy to copy, then you want exponential growth so you can maximize your market share and become the default brand in that space. Maybe you make very tiny profits from each person that uses it, but if there are a lot of them and 80% of them use your thing, then you will get rich. In the latter case you definitely want venture capital because it's ultimately about quantity over quality (and this will become increasingly obvious over time, but many prefer market dominance to being the best).