If your business idea is too big to make without large (seed investment size) amounts of funds then you should pick something else or get a job and slowly build it with your own income.
Suck it up.
If your business idea is too big to make without large (seed investment size) amounts of funds then you should pick something else or get a job and slowly build it with your own income.
Suck it up.
You can name the few startups that have done what you're recommending, but every other (high growth) startup did it the way you're knocking.
A great many people try to create startups while maintaining day jobs. You don't hear about those ones, ever.
These type of businesses get very little press, but they are very good to own and run - I of course know nothing about them :)
Though by the traditional silicon valley definition of startup, the ones like you describe can be labeled something like lifestyle businesses, solopreneur ventures, etc. I think people like Chris Guillebeau (The $100 Startup), Jason Fried / DHH (blogs and books), and Marco Ament are successful people to read that are also good examples of starting businesses this way. Maybe even Tim Ferriss (4HWW).