All of your action items are defeatist items. How about: work at your day job and bootstrap a startup until it's cash flow positive or work as an apprentice fo

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