[chrisgoman]

If you want a "safer" financial outcome, quitting your job and starting your own thing is NOT the answer.

If you can do your product without raising money by actually making sales (bootstrapping) and making a profit every month, then this is more "safer" than raising money as you will lose control over your financial outcome. The successful ones (there are not a lot) get a lot of press but there are a lot more failures with raising money and then figuring out profit