> Hiring engineers is a bit difficult since we are not making any revenue yet. The only option is to give equity, I suppose. Give up equity to raise money to h

> Hiring engineers is a bit difficult since we are not making any revenue yet. The only option is to give equity, I suppose. Give up equity to raise money to hire and scale. Otherwise, raise money preselling the product to scale the company, but this likely chains you to customers that you may find later would be better with their own consultants. And if this means you're not getting paid, 20% (or 50%) of 0 and $12k opportunity cost is $144k/year investment