My question: why is outside investing considered the norm around here? It feels like so many people are worried about "playing the game" if you will, ie gettin

My question: why is outside investing considered the norm around here? It feels like so many people are worried about "playing the game" if you will, ie getting funding, creating a "startup" and moving to the bay. To what end? To just make a bunch of money? Everything seems backward. Taking VC funding is but one of an infinite number of ways to sustain a business (keyword: sustain). Personally I don't even think about funding, marketing, any of that jazz until I have a badass prototype that is not only fun for me to use, but gets others excited as well. That feels like what should be the norm to me. It all seems funky when people are thinking of business opportunities before thinking of a product, then seeing an opportunity to make money off of it.