I don't know about that... There are quite a few little snowball startups that started out as self funded that do pretty well. I'm thinking about Buffer, Drip,

I don't know about that... There are quite a few little snowball startups that started out as self funded that do pretty well. I'm thinking about Buffer, Drip, Litmus, Basecamp to name a few. Sure, some of them did raise money, but that was a long time after they were profitable.