When I started, I got one of those card boxes that contains a manual pump, a chicken stick, a rechargable glow starter and some other bits.... I must've spent hours trying to hand crank my first engine over.

Now with the benifit of experience, a well set up engine when correctly primed will start in the first couple of flips. I always keep the starter handy though, in case the engine doesn't want to cooperate....

If you don't budget for a starter, you'll curse yourself on the first trip to the field...