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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by zweep on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:37AM (#22395332)
Nobody doing marketplaces etc. should be using anything but off-the-shelf software until $10 million annual revenue.
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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by dman on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:16AM (#22395582)
Wonder how much of this is startups hiring early engineers who are only too willing to write new things to prove themselves.
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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by amoitnga on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:57PM (#22398323)
why 10 mil? where the number come from?
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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by zweep on Sunday February 23, 2020 @09:55PM (#22401258)
It’s obviously not precise. But roughly after that you are making about a million a year minimum in cash flow and can think about spending $250k+ on custom software.
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