I considered this myself once. The thing is, when you begin a start up you are investing yourself already. If you go for VC, you may get less return if you succeed, but the ability to do it all again if you fail.

SocialCinema.com. Collaborative video that did not see the light of day.

Developed an iOS photo editor (http://proc.es) which keeps me from starving. Though, come to think of it I am a little hungry.

It's hard not to be hungry with a 10 bucks app that has a landing page that says nothing about it and competes with Instagram, Camera+, Hipsmatic and such.

After your comment I was expecting a homepage with irrelevant information. Maybe some's blog.

I will not spoil the surprise for others but I will say that I did not expect what I did not see.

Buying your app right now. Go grab yourself a burger.