<i>&gt;3. It&#x27;s fun and exciting to use someone else&#x27;s money to try to come up with a new business type.</i><p>Most startups are not able to raise money from outside investors.  In fact I&#x27;d say outside of the Stanford student&#x2F;graduate&#x2F;dropout crowd, it&#x27;s probably less than 1%.  The other 99% also don&#x27;t get paychecks because they can&#x27;t draw from investment capital they never got.