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All of the startup mantras hacker news recites go out the window if you raise lots of capital, apparently.

• plamb 16y ago
  And they should. There's a big difference between two guys renting a house and living of their savings accounts pre-launch and 41 million dollars and 27 employees pre-launch.
  • pclark 16y ago
    Why?
    • plamb 16y ago
      Well for one, you shouldn't have issues like the app crashing when someone tries to take a photo. 27 employees means you have plenty of QA and a testing environment. Two guys in a house means you maybe have one iPhone version to test on and no time to do thorough QA.
• dglassan 16y ago
  ya, it applies to a team of founders living off their savings who need to push their product out and get quick feedback from initial users to set their product/service in the right direction. A team of 20+ people with $41 million in the bank has the luxury of not having to worry about missing a rent check and they have the resources to do thorough QA testing and run a beta program to get initial feedback (maybe color ran a beta program I'm not sure). Color definitely has the resources to run a 6 month beta program to get feedback and test their app....a founding team of two living off their savings may not have the time or money to do this.