Any reasonable investor will say (not in so many words), use your own money to prove that your idea works, and then I may invest some of my money.
You may find some risk taker investors, who may take a bet on you, but if they are professional investors, they hedge their bet by making sure that they can wrestle control of the company from you if you don't deliver - and that's unlikely to be appealing to you either, so your best bet is to try to show the world that they were all wrong in not backing you - and they (investors) will all come crawling to you.
At the moment, the way I see it, you're not holding any of the cards (though I'm sure you see it differently), so investors will call all the shots in the current scenario you describe.