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Rome wasn't built in a day. Unless you're 75 years old, there's always another idea you can build into something huge.
If you still don't know what to do after that, just watch some more episodes.
Also, and I might be reading this wrong, looks like you haven't got much feedback on your deck and model. Consider getting some feedback including an industry expert.
I'm really happy I'm not in your position but if I were I'd take the $14M. This is probably also why I'm not fabulously wealthy.
As far as the local venture scene is concerned: look abroad. US, UK, DE, FR all have lots (more than 1,000) active VCs in total, if your story is as good as you say then at least one of them should be willing to fund you.
Off-topic: I thought that tracking email opening was no longer possible in gmail? My memory of it was that you'd insert an image and track whether that was retrieved, but that GMail started caching all images ahead of time for their users so you couldn't tell if/when it was opened. See, eg, [1]. Is that not correct? [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail...
In the gmail web browser client, that is in the general settings:
(*) Ask before displaying external images
A few things, though it's hard without much info (re: revenue/growth). Regardless: 1. A $14m sale is a huuuge win. You'd be set for life. A 100% likelihood of $14m is something that is difficult to turn down in almost any scenario. Even if you'd eventually make $50m, your life wouldn't change much from a net worth of $14m to $50m. You could buy a nicer jet? Let's say you take the $14m. Your life would (presumably) ch…
OP hasn't mentioned the current ownership structure. It may or may not be a huge win.