If you have development skills and a bit of sales skills. The best way to do it is to do a web design gig for about $4-10K. DO NOT do anything more complex than

If you have development skills and a bit of sales skills. The best way to do it is to do a web design gig for about $4-10K. DO NOT do anything more complex than a form on the site as it will just snowball into a ridiculous sized project. Go to a web tech convention (in Boston, WebInno) and wear a name tag or shirt that explains that you build kick ass websites. You WILL get attention. Our startup did the same thing until recently: do web design consultancy. In the past 3 months (and next 1) we've saved up (two of us) over $60,000 which is more than enough for at least a 6month full time run on our web startup. This on top of building our web startup's prototype and going to Ugrad (and doing decently I might add). If you have any further questions on how to get your web design co going in a hurry... pm me.