Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start Fog Creek

Re:Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start F... by mixmax on Thursday April 17, 2008 @06:10PM (#166740)

Interesting to note how to Joel Spolsky says that $50.000 is "a very small amount of money". Where I'm from that amount would be fairly high for an angel investor.

Maybe it's time to move...

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Re:Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start F... by aston on Thursday April 17, 2008 @06:49PM (#166768)

That sort of thing scales with cost-of-living. Joel was making NYC money at the time of founding Fog Creek. $50k in South Carolina takes you halfway to a decent house. In NYC, a salary that big is barely enough to pay for an apartment in Manhattan for a year.

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Re:Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start F... by mixmax on Thursday April 17, 2008 @07:46PM (#166810)

This makes it even worse - I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is the 6'th most expensive city in the world to live in, just behind Hong Kong.

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Re:Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start F... by weezus on Thursday April 17, 2008 @07:45PM (#166807)

He was some kind of manager at Microsoft for a while, so I'd guess he got some nice options from that.

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Re:Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start F... by shiranaihito on Friday April 18, 2008 @07:01AM (#167125)

$50k is not pocket change for everyone, and besides, what exactly was the article's message anyway?

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