I commented on the blog, but really my comment probably belongs here.<p>This is a great advertisement for SeedCamp, but I find it strange that SeedCamp/Y-Combinator/TechStars focus on people with ideas, pre-launch.<p>Is there anything like this availble to first time bootstrappers who have just gone and gotten it done?
Build/Launch/Revise - but it would be great to have access to these kinds of resources - lots of knowledge and a bit of money.<p>Seems to me that once you've got a product out there, it's difficult to get small amounts of money to keep things going, and the publicity that YC etc. provide is unbeatable.
I think that looking to 'validation' from investors demonstrates some level of insecurity about your idea.<p>And it leaves power in the hands of investors.<p>Don't believe for a moment that all investments were good idea (obligatory pets.com reference here).<p>There's power in looking for validation elsewhere: users, competition, press. If you get it from there, the investment will follow.