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Interesting to note how to Joel Spolsky says that $50.000 is "a very small amount of money". Where I'm from that amount would be fairly high for an angel invest

by mixmax 19y ago

Interesting to note how to Joel Spolsky says that $50.000 is "a very small amount of money". Where I'm from that amount would be fairly high for an angel investor. Maybe it's time to move...

aston 19y ago
That sort of thing scales with cost-of-living. Joel was making NYC money at the time of founding Fog Creek. $50k in South Carolina takes you halfway to a decent house. In NYC, a salary that big is barely enough to pay for an apartment in Manhattan for a year.
- weezus 19y ago
  He was some kind of manager at Microsoft for a while, so I'd guess he got some nice options from that.
- mixmax 19y ago
  This makes it even worse - I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is the 6'th most expensive city in the world to live in, just behind Hong Kong.
shiranaihito 19y ago
$50k is not pocket change for everyone, and besides, what exactly was the article's message anyway?