You're in a pretty sweet position if you can go to an investor and say: 1) I'm an expert in my target market. 2) I have a functional product deployed in a rea

You're in a pretty sweet position if you can go to an investor and say: 1) I'm an expert in my target market. 2) I have a functional product deployed in a real environment. 3) I have five other customers lined up already. You'd be sitting better than 95% of startups, even if The Donald isn't shilling for you.