Do You Have a Funding Source?

i wanted to start small, but i live in poloalto and you kind of have this notion that everybody who wants to start a business here just has checus witn to them. And not having any institutional capital makes you super scrappy. Makes you think about every cent you spend, what is the potential return on this? And is it useful? So it's a really interesting place to find myself,. which is, o my god, i'm isa. I should be able to raise lots of money. But then realizing that i can't raise any....