Subj : Re: Resume questions, how convey? (was: How much should I charge
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Ulrich Hobelmann
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 11:28 am

gds@best.cut.here.com wrote:
> The amount of money necessary to start a business depends on the type
> of business, among other things.  You may only need a few thousand US$
> to build a small prototype, but you may need far more to build out an

You don't need anything to *build* software, as long as you can pay the 
rent and feed yourself (and all other developers).  Of course that's a 
problem not to be neglected ;), but if you can stay at your parents' for 
instance it might be cheap.

> infrastructure to support a client base of substantial size.  Your
> ability to attract investors may depend on being able to support the
> substantial client base.

That's true.  But server resources are cheap anyway, and hiring support 
people wouldn't kill a (working) business, either, so I guess it depends 
on how much support you'd have to do all by yourself (since I'm afraid 
you don't scale ;) ).

-- 
My ideal for the future is to develop a filesystem remote interface
(a la Plan 9) and then have it implemented across the Internet as
the standard rather than HTML.  That would be ultimate cool.
	Ken Thompson

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