How much did you spend on your startup before you got ramen profitable?
patio11: Disclaimer: I had full-time employment to put a roof over my head and food on the table for the entire duration I've had a business.$58.17 of my own money, spent in the one month before I had enough sales to fund all business expenses out of incoming revenue.If I had to do it over again, I'd tell my younger self that the "bring it in for under the price of a video game" discipline was worthwhile, but $500 or so on icons, visual design, domains, and directory submissions in the first few months would have made my life much easier.If you (somewhat arbitrarily) say having a day job is cheating and that my basic living expenses were de-facto invested into the business, then I'd estimate I probably spent something on the order of $15,000 of implied investment prior to ramen profitability.  I think that is a pretty useless statistic but, hey, full disclosure.