“Whenever someone tells me that they can't figure out how to raise the first $25,000 they need to get their company started I stand up, walk over to the cereal

“Whenever someone tells me that they can't figure out how to raise the first $25,000 they need to get their company started I stand up, walk over to the cereal box, and tell this story. It is a story of pure unadulterated hustle. And I love it.” https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/ https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/ Edit: if you were to create something really capital intensive like rockets, Boom is a great story for that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346947