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I completely understand your hesitation! I feel the same way. We used to say we straightened paperclips to save money. I would say: Don't turn off the switch

I completely understand your hesitation! I feel the same way. We used to say we straightened paperclips to save money. I would say: Don't turn off the switch! Not ever. Maybe a better way to think about it, especially at the beginning: Let's say you get a big order or have a big month and you have just an extra $1000. Then how to spend? Is there a particular ad campaign you'd like to try? Offload some crappy work for 1 month and see how much time it really frees up? Etc. That is, make it $1k instead of $100k. Maybe more practical?

jeremyw 17y ago
Indeed, it's very practical to open the spigot slowly as a way around the two ways of thinking, penny-pinching vs labor/resource abstraction. I would quibble about turning off the switch. It's fine to hand that function to someone else (CFO-type), but when I've had nice budgets (e.g. 5mil) it's been necessary and efficient to ignore the spending noise to some extent and focus on the big picture. But that might be a personal fault.