All of your action items are defeatist items.<p>How about: work at your day job and bootstrap a startup until it&#x27;s cash flow positive or work as an apprentice for an entrepreneur until you can start your own.<p>Every successful entrepreneur I know outside of the valley has started in one of those two ways.<p>The idea of a &quot;startup&quot; having to have funding is looking at entrepreneurship in a complete backwards way.