> Hire somebody. This is easier said than done, even if they're convinced it's worth the money. Not only are startup founders faced with the usual problems as

> Hire somebody. This is easier said than done, even if they're convinced it's worth the money. Not only are startup founders faced with the usual problems associated with hiring competent technical people (ironically a problem the OP is attempting to help), but this would be hiring someone whose competence they'd be much less qualified to evaluate. This effect can be seen in "DevOps" (as a title) postings from startups that emphasize Dev (programming against a cloud API and/or "automate everything!"). That kind of redefinition is much harder to do convincingly for office IT.