If you don't have any money, then it's a foregone conclusion that nobody has a salary and you're not going to hire anybody. That drops your operating expenses down to the cost of keeping the server alive, which paradoxically means that you don't need to bring in any outside money to keep going.

The main reason we haven't taken any VC for Twiddla is that we couldn't for the life of us think of anything to spend it on. What exactly are you supposed to do with $12M when you're only burning at $600/month?