The story of my startup continues… After the setback I talked about in my last blog entry, we regrouped and started down another path. Having found a company willing to put in services valued at $500K, we still found ourselves “cash poor”. The services were great, but we still needed cash. We went back to our original plans (before being told we needed $1MM) and determined that we could build and launch the company with much less than $1MM. We reworked our plan again and set out to find our Angel, which we did a month later! Still it took 2 months to the cash. I was down to my very last dollar, it came just in time. So there we were, angel money in hand, we started working the launch plan. Not too far into the plan it quickly became apparent that perhaps we did not need the $500K in services either… WOW – in a good way. The bottom line is that we believe we can build the company for much less than we originally thought and SO MUCH LOWER THAN THE ADVICE OF THE SO CALLED ANGEL FUND… Who is right is yet to be seen as we are off to the races with our Angel money in hand, bootstrapping all the way!