Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for?

Post by redrobot5050 » Thu, Jan 29, 2009, 4:15 PM UTC

zepolen wrote: post #13

justin wrote: post #5

1) Salaries. Many engineers, salesmen, etc who have been out of college for a year or two don't want to go back to making basically nothing. Yes, you can find talented people who will work for you for little, but it's going to take a long time to do so. It's lovely to think that every company should be able to bootstrap off ramen indefinitely, but it turns out that often times you find that in order to do all the thi…

Thanks for your first hand experience input. Your first two points I can agree with, but it's the 3rd that troubles me. Shouldn't a company that means to stay in business want to have slow but steady growth, a gradual climb, giving the them time to adapt. Doesn't a company want to put its money making plan in action before it goes big time? I know justin.tv has major bandwidth requirements, and from what I can see th…