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I know it isn't really helpful advice as such, but have a great track record and a great network. I worked for this one, non-technical, guy on a couple of companies (as an employee, not a co-founder), and while I don't know exactly how he did it, he had list of people whom it seemed he could just call up and get a few $100k in investment from whenever he needed it. Of course this was far from his first company, he had years and dozens of companies (of varying degrees of success) behind him.