1) While Google is efficient, there is no market need to create Google killer. Even if there is such a need, the goal of startup would be to create a model tha

1) While Google is efficient, there is no market need to create Google killer. Even if there is such a need, the goal of startup would be to create a model that at scale would overperform Google. Such model is likely to be created at less than $30K monthly burn. For example, team of two developers in couple of years may implement and fine tune some efficient social way of ranking search results. $30K/month * 24 month = $720K. 2) Jason Calacanis empirical rule: "if startup is overfunded then as soon as profitability is achieved it would be crushed by Google." :-) 3) "The internet is biased toward big..." -- I agree. But it's "big product scale", not "big organization".