I've been working on a start-up alone for half a year now. I have very limited capital and unless I get a loan or something it will only make sense to start hiring after I have secured seed investment.

And things ain't going great. Burnouts happened much easier than I initially expected. I got a chance to pitch to some investors and screwed it up.

I have been thinking whether I've cornered myself into a unbeatable game here. Perhaps I should get back to work, save up, and do start-up again when I have enough capital to hire people without outside investment, or at least do it with a co-founder.

So I'm wondering: what are some examples of sole founder without captial founding a successful startup?