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You're paying yourself? I would highly suggest keeping as much cash in the business as possible and put off paying yourself for as long as possible. You'll suffer now but thank yourself later. Get entrepreneurial on how to score free rent and food.

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Scoring free rent and food sounds like almost as much work as the startup itself.

I guess if you're in a college town, you could just pretend to be a student and attend student club meetings for the free pizza. I don't know how to handle the rent. You could always seduce girls, I guess. But that seems time consuming. And if you can score free food and seduce girls already, maybe your youth would be better spent that way rather than in a startup?

Unfortunately that doesn't really work for us. We do have some minimal costs - it would be great if we could live for free but that's not going to happen right now. I think even PG says that the money they give to companies is mostly to cover living expenses for a few months. Anyways, the question is how a founder in the earliest of stages takes money out for personal expenses when they need to.

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