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Dreams of starting your own business are often filled with fantasies of coming up with a great idea, and venture capital firms fighting to fund it for you.

But as Bill Reichert of Garage Technology Ventures puts it: “The odds of raising venture capital are equal to the odds of getting struck by lightning while standing on the bottom of a swimming pool on a sunny day.”

 

To read the original article: To bootstrap or not? 5 questions to ask yourself | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Jake Gibson, NerdWallet