Try to make some sense out of the OP. Start with some examples:

Google: As I recall, two guys in a garage, literally, until they had a good start on a good business, offered to sell out for $1 million.

Amazon: Bezos and a few programmers.

FedEx: I was there early on and saw a lot of stuff about the BOD (board of directors), Founder-CEO, executives, General Dynamics, visitors from big NYC banks, funding of the airplanes, deals with Memphis to get space on/near the airport, the worker bees, etc. Was close to the action, office next to the Founder--CEO F. Smith, reported to a Senior VP with office across the hall but really reported just to Smith, was close to the BOD ("you just keep doing what you are doing until someone tells you to stop"), twice in work for the BOD enabled crucial investment and literally saved the company, etc.

Plenty of Fish: One guy, three old Dell servers, Microsoft's .NET with ASP.NET and ADO.NET, on-line romantic introduction site, sold out for $575 million.

Compared with Plenty of Fish, how Google started, and the arithmetic in the post, a summary: For the invested money: (a) Too many big, powerful chiefs, and not enough working indians. (b) Big hats, too few cattle. Too much overhead for the work done, e.g., per line of code written and running.

So, one approach: Start cheap, dirt cheap. Sole, solo founder. Only an LLC and with lawyers and accountants like, say, a grass mowing business -- LITERALLY. Founder lives cheap, say, in an area with low cost of living, in a used manufactured house, that is also the office, old used car. Take advantage of the still exploding Internet and cheap, powerful tower case computers (assembled from parts) for development and servers, $60/month 1 Gbps Internet connection, etc. Find a market need can meet with this dirt cheap approach and can get to profitibility with rapidly growing revenue.

So, leave out the time, cost, botheration of: Investors, lawyers, accountants, rented high quality offices, investor meetings, Board meetings, a management tree, manager meetings, reports to investors and the BOD, 10+ employees with all the expenses, legalities, lots of plane travel, employee stock plans, vesting, etc.

For a while, tried to raise funding; time wasted. Lesson: In simple terms, most VCs won't look at a business idea or technology before there is rapidly growing revenue. Then nearly all the VC money is used for the lawyers, other overhead, etc.

Comparison: (A) Dirt cheap: Invest $50-K a year. (B) Angel, VC, private equity approach: $10+ million a year. Big difference.

Problem: Investors need the lawyers, accountants, and other overhead so go for approach (B) where %10- of the money goes for the real work of getting the business going.

Back to work!