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Re:Your Startup’s Office Is Missing a Room by sebkomianos on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:21PM (#6072325)
I think it has to do with culture: They don't spend it exactly for the sake of it but because rooms with shiny iMacs that get featured on blogposts like this one are usually the validation of one's investment.

One trend I have noticed a lot in Berlin is money being spend in all sorts of things that are in no way related to the product or service the startup was trying to create - and the few times I dared asked I got the same "they are investing a lot of money on us man, that party should better show it!".

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Re:Your Startup’s Office Is Missing a Room by soneca on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:28PM (#6072370)
I think you are right. The founder thinks: "If I don't spend all their money, they will think I raised more money that I needed, which is probably true, but they don't have to know."

While the investors think: "If they don't spend all our money I will think they are lowing the chances that this investment will pay back, so they better spend it all".

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