So, here's a question: Who's the competition? How did readers who didn't go through Y-Combinator get off of the ground? How'd you first get in contact with a

So, here's a question: Who's the competition? How did readers who didn't go through Y-Combinator get off of the ground? How'd you first get in contact with angel investors? Or incubators or seed funding or whatever... As much startup rhetoric as seems to be kicking around this site and others, there seems to be a gap between "Go YC!" and "We just did our A-Round..." We've been scrambling to get together as many contacts in the ramp up to quitting our jobs and there are some interesting leads, but before we start playing the find-funding-or-die game it seems prudent to have as many leads as possible.