Andy Rossignol
Launching and living off of https://www.salesGet.com
I'm bootstrapped.
In the beginning of my company, I received a small grant. I had a horrible experience. The program made me feel that all investment money is evil and not worth it (yeah, pretty bad, right?), so I decided to just keep bootstrapping instead of try and raise money.
Maybe later in my business life I will raise money, but VCs are waiting for companies to mature anyway...Seed raises are getting harder and harder to achieve, while the cost of starting a PaaS or SaaS is lower than ever.