I would say technology wise, you don't need to launch with more than a VM for hosting if frugality is important to you. That way your costs don't explode. I wou

I would say technology wise, you don't need to launch with more than a VM for hosting if frugality is important to you. That way your costs don't explode. I would put the rest of my money into the sales pipeline. I think the requirements for initial scale are usually grossly overestimated, and the throughput of a simple $30 VM underestimated. Unless I built my stack out of mollasses, or I was anticipating 1000s of concurrent users, concurrent being the important part, then I wouldn't touch cloud stuff personally.