[krageon]

You could start them with little investment, but your time is also worth (a lot of) money. That's not coming from anywhere if you work for any startup, including your own. You might make that money back later, you might not. In the end that is part of your investment and it's a gamble. If you do not have the financial cushion required to sustain you for the amount of months it needs to become profitable for you, you cannot do it.

[goatherders]

Baloney. Those are excuses. If you have no money the opportunity to make some/plenty is abundant and all around you. Everything else is excuses and procrastination. You dont need other people's money. You need to sell something.