People cost a lot. We raised a bit of money, and about 80% of our budget is for salaries. We spend a few grand a month on hosting and services, and all of tha

People cost a lot. We raised a bit of money, and about 80% of our budget is for salaries. We spend a few grand a month on hosting and services, and all of that is less than a single month's pay for someone. Computers and software ... unless you're using some very expensive software it's not even going to add up to 1 month's salary for a person. Office rent etc is negligible compared to the people in that office. It's not even a competition really ... one person can cost you more than your hosting, office space and computers and stuff combined, and you're probably hiring more than 1. You don't even have to go to extremes and hire a ton of people like silverbax88 mentions, if you're hiring 5 people that's 100s of thousands of dollars.