Right, but note that the VCs are effectively asking you to bootstrap anyway before you get any real VC, and absorb all that risk yourself, regardless of whether

Right, but note that the VCs are effectively asking you to bootstrap anyway before you get any real VC, and absorb all that risk yourself, regardless of whether or not the lottery ticket story is true. That's not to say there aren't ideas that really scream for VC: enterprise sales take a long ass time and require expensive sales-bots to get done, for example. But for a lot of SAAS type stuff, that isn't the case.