I think you can outsource much more than accounting as a startup: graphic design to 99designs, html/css to CSS Ninjas javascript to oDesk coders. HOWEVER, you s

I think you can outsource much more than accounting as a startup: graphic design to 99designs, html/css to CSS Ninjas javascript to oDesk coders. HOWEVER, you should be able to edit your html/css/javascript in house, so you should know how to write it and make sure you don't get funked inflexible frameworks. However, you should write the backend in house otherwise you have no idea what you're getting. I worked for a startup that got someone to build their site fast and cheap, and they got stuck with a php QCubed framework. We spent the next 3 months deciding whether to re-write or if we could live with it. I think they are still struggling today. Would have been much easier/cheaper/efficient to get it right from the start.