>lean startup

You mean a bootstrapped startup?

http://steveblank.com/2009/11/02/lean-startups-aren%E2%80%99... http://practicetrumpstheory.com/2010/03/bootstrapping-a-lean...

The tools are free for a few years via BizSpark. A lot of companies find the bill at the end of the BizSpark period pretty painful, but you should usually at least be out of lean startup mode by then.