We've always grown within our means as Elliott has alluded to (you forgot VAT by the way :P), and we've never taken any VC money even though it's an option for us as we're concerned we'd lose control of our vision and some of our processes.
FWIW, and I've mentioned this elsewhere the total GGJ entries is a signal, but a weak one. Even though GGJ entries have dropped, we're seeing great growth YoY and the GGJ is of no concern to us. (Note, you'd probably want to normalise those numbers by total # entries and not compare them YoY to the absolute figures).
More employees -> better engine quality -> more users -> more profit. It work like that right?
Throwing new programmers at software to make it better is rarely true. I like Warren Buffet's quote for this:
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Regarding pricing, we've just rolled out monthly pricing globally for personal editions. These are now available. Going from one off payments to annual payments to monthly has cash flow risk at each step which is one of the reasons we've taken our time with it.
I know there are weaknesses on certain parts of the website, but they will addresses in due course. We have to prioritise and we do our best to prioritise for what's best for the business as a whole. There are lots of factors involved in this, some which will be opaque from the outside.
I'd like to point out as well we're quite happy with our performance! We've seen other competitors take on VC money and crash and burn. Other competitors keep announcing years after years of delays in releasing promised new versions. We've always delivered, and deliver well.