"You don't really need investors to start something, nowadays, and when you do need them they'll usually be there."

Thanks, but like I said in my post, I would rather get an exciting team together, get the legal and accounting stuff out of the way, and build a trusted relationship with an investor, and put to use what I've learned over the past 4 years. And none of those people work for free.

If it's possible to take care of all that stuff right away, it makes life very easy.