What ground can't move at any time? Being completely independent of anybody else is mind-bendingly hard. I bet you aren't either. Very few are — most are just lucky enough not to have had their dependencies fail so catastrophically.
I'd put it this way: there's building on shaky ground and there's building on ground that's designed to disappear as soon as you get something good going.
I'm sorry for iFlow's people but if your business requires to be approved by a potential competitor to exist you are going to be in trouble.
A web company is the most independent company that exists. They are even, in some cases, outside of control of the government (although this is starting to change). And it isn't mind-bendingly hard; a couple of the biggest companies in technology (Google and Facebook) were started by college students in their dorm rooms / garages.
My friend bought a building. 50 apartments. He got investment money from family to put a down payment on the loan. Fix it up. Have tenents pay rent and cover the loans while looking for a seller. Sell it for a proffit.
This was great. Except that he had ABSOLUTELY no risk-mitigation. He could not afford to keep the house on the market for 3 yrs to ensure that no matter what, he does not lose all the invested money.
Guess what? Problems arose trying to sell the house. Took 3 months longer than expected (9mo total vs expected 6). Money ran out. Boom foreclosure. Lost 800k.
The lesson I learned is that take what you are assuming will happen, and make at least SOME risk mitigation. How can you get out? If you can't what will you lose? Etc. Don't make long term risky goals based on hopes that everything will be alright. Assume the worst, can we still come out even if that happens?
You shouldn't build your foundations on ground that can move at any time.