[jldugger]

> There's a reason why a lot of these "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" stories happened in eras where you could comfortably rent a workshop with little means and do things like solder your circuitry for a desktop computer by hand and ship it to clients yourself.

If only there was a discussion forum that could match up founders with venture capitalists ready to take on big challenges!

You have picked perhaps the worst example industry, on perhaps the worst venue to write it.