Are you a single founder ?
chops: 1) Started officially working on the project December '05 (before that, it was just a personal project for fun - no serious business intentions)2) Never applied3) No.  Bootstrapped, launched running a single crappy tower server in colo (AMD XP 2100 with a gig of RAM). Started part time, on the side from consulting work.  I was offered a pretty meager sum ($20k) in my earliest days, but I was already profitable, and turned it down.4) http://www.dkpsystem.comI've been profitable since the beginning, and went full-time January '07.  Business has been much slower lately, but I'm working to adapt.