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A comment on Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for?.
* Carrying inventory, if you sell hardware.
* A 6-10 region direct sales force.
* A full time customer service operation.
* The reconstituted powdered startup marketing packets they sell you when you buy your CEO.
* The pro-forma engineering staff-up you do almost subconsciously to end up with a 50/50 b-team/engineering split.
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* Carrying inventory, if you sell hardware.
* A 6-10 region direct sales force.
* A full time customer service operation.
* The reconstituted powdered startup marketing packets they sell you when you buy your CEO.
* The pro-forma engineering staff-up you do almost subconsciously to end up with a 50/50 b-team/engineering split.