<prompt> Human: I seem to struggle with this one quite a bit. First let me say thank you to this community for providing such wealth of information related to personal-finance. I was curious how PF entrepreneurs fund their entrepreneurial endeavors. Do you create a separate investment fund or pull money from your taxable investment accounts? I understand that most of this is subjective but Im just curious to get a feel for how others are successfully doing so. Risk aversion is not conducive to a highly successful entrepreneurial career yet it is what we somewhat seek to maintain when dealing with our long-term investments. I, like a number of other PF members, tend to get anxiety if Im not consistently adding to my savings accounts and working towards my savings goals.  <response>: What do you mean by entrepreneur? The term is thrown around a lot and, depending on your definition, will affect your strategy.Im an old-school entrepreneur, meaning that I have a physical office, full-time employees, and a business can operate without my full-time involvement. My company is a single-member LLC thats taxed as an S-Corp, which means Im on the payroll. I get a paycheck every two weeks along with everyone else. Part of my deductions are for health care and my 401k of which my company matches 100 up to 5. This isnt much different than if I were employed elsewhere.There are three things that I can do with my profit and I dont consider my salary to be part of my profit, its an expense:1. Reinvest it back into the company to fuel growth2. Save it for a rainy day so I dont have to layoff people when things slow down.3. Take a draw from the business and put it into my personal account.Almost all of my profit goes into bucket 1 because Im in a super high-growth industry and I dont want to take a lot of debt andor investment. Bucket 2 is a bit lacking, but Im not too concerned about it because of our strong growth. Im eventually going to begin diverting more and more cash from bucket 1 to 2 as our growth levels off.Im not really a money-motivated person, so Im not all that concerned about bucket 3 taking money out of the company. But as opportunities present themselves, I will invest a few thousand dollars here and there. Its mainly because its interesting though; its not really a cohesive investment strategy. Im still young though 37 and my company is too 5 years. As my company maturesslows, that will change and Ill begin seriously looking at investing profit into other opportunities. But right now my company is sucking too much cash to do that, nor would I have the time to pursue them. My current investment strategy is no different than most other corporate employees.Hope that helps. 