As someone whose best friend started a business that is being grown organically (no seed money, no investors, no venture capitalist, just an idea), my perspecti

As someone whose best friend started a business that is being grown organically (no seed money, no investors, no venture capitalist, just an idea), my perspective is probably different than most of HN's. The risk he endured was literally starving. If it wasn't for us, he very well might have.