They can be tactically used with little funds. 

IT’S POSSIBLE TO MAKE A LIVING FROM A STARTUP FAIRLY FAST

Businesses used to take years and years of losses to get to the point of making enough money to pay for you to live. You had to raise a significant amount of capital up front, usually in the form of credit cards and savings from your job. But today it is completely different. You can start charging for software, increase your customers with a certain level of profitable scale, and get to the point that your fundamental living is paid for.

THE CAPITAL TO GROW IS WIDELY AVAILABLE IF YOU NEED IT

The investment world is going through an interesting transition period. Since, entrepreneurs need less money to get to certain milestones, new classes of investors have come up, leading smaller and smaller deals. You can get funding from Venture Nursery or Startup Village for just the idea + being a smart team, a seed round in multiple flavors, a traditional larger angel round, or the full Series A.