re: Small business owners, what kind of business do you run?

I actually hate kickstarter. Really viable ideas go nowhere and dumb shite gets funded 400%.

I've been really against using crowdfunding but it's a worthwhile tool, and I'll be licensing my biz model to put it in other markets, so It'll be more like a marketing ploy for me than a seed stage funding. I've saved up enough to bootstrap this, if there's some cash that comes through from it, then it's nice to have extra safety money.