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Read This: "...funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape"

That's a lesson for each of us -- aspiring entreprenuers and the likes (or call them whateveryouwant) -- if you can't fund yourself, you are better off elsewhere (writing codes for EDS, for eg). And this is how you "fund" yourself.