Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just for advertising?

Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by coffeeaddicted on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @04:30PM (#82576)

Yes, that are also the usual monthly costs we had. Servers could mostly be ignored in our case (below 20$ per month). Usually some one time costs are also needed. Like some hardware or for us the most expensive thing where the software licenses (though open source got us very, very far). I also paid for some legal advice, but it wasn't really worth it's money.

Oh - and in countries like germany don't forget the health insurance, which is the highest monthly cost I have to pay.

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by zaidf on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @09:43PM (#82646)

Some of us are less lucky. Our last month's bandwidth cost was around 4k--all pushed to our credit cards.

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by rms on Thursday November 22, 2007 @02:35AM (#82691)

David Rusenko:

>call any investor in the valley and tell them "I'm growing so fast and I need $15,000 to pay for servers and hosting" and you'll have convertible note paperwork signed by the end of the week"

http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-you-wont-run-out-...

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by coffeeaddicted on Thursday November 22, 2007 @02:23AM (#82688)

That was one of our biggest fears and the main reason we chose our current provider. He offered unlimited traffic and we are offering a rather large demo (about 25 MB) and some videos. But by now I found out that getting above 500gb (which was a typical limit for other providers) seems not to be possible with our weak vserver so the unlimited doesn't mean much (but maybe I'm just not a good enough admin for that).

We lost a lot of downloads that way, though when I now read how much you had to pay - that sounds really worse.

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by cperciva on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @04:58PM (#82580)

Where do you get servers for less than $20/month?

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by coffeeaddicted on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @05:25PM (#82592)

We did only need a vserver for a start which are not hard to get at that price. Also I won't recommend my provider as we had horrible downtimes for a while and it's still not that good. So while we pay less than $20 per month, I wouldn't recommend it and the main reason we stay is that we have a 1 year contract.

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by cperciva on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @06:57PM (#82612)

while we pay less than $20 per month, I wouldn't recommend it...

Ok, that more or less matches what I thought -- that it's possible to get a VPS for less than $20, but not necessarily a very good idea.

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by omouse on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @05:07PM (#82582)

I know the question isn't directed at me, but I found a web host that lets you pay according to how much bandwidth you actually use: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

The bonus is that they support haskell, scheme, common lisp and ocaml web apps :)

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by lsb on Thursday November 22, 2007 @05:30AM (#82711)

And the downside is that their disk access, from experience, is really slow.

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by wlievens on Thursday November 22, 2007 @04:14AM (#82703)

Isn't food (and rent) a personal expense, rather than a company expense? So your company has to first pay a wage to yourself (taxed) and then you personally buy the food? Same for rent, unless you're renting an office, right?

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Re:Why do startups need all that funding money? It is just f... by rms on Thursday November 22, 2007 @04:19AM (#82705)

That's what I thought, but anyone feel free to pipe up if you're managing to buy all of your food as a company expense.

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