When people visit your startup, they should be surprised how few people you have. A visitor who walks around and is impressed by the magnitude of your operation is implicitly saying "Did it really take all these people to make that crappy product?"
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in fact, every non-technical person in my family says exactly that when I make them guess how many people work at Facebook or Twitter. What do they need [ridiculous number of engineers] for?
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They need them to absorb all that revenue.
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Well said.
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Ouch well our bootstrap operation is currently running with zero full time staff and is expecting infinite user growth any time soon... as soon as We [the zero] pull that MVP out of the prototype http://projects.invisionapp.com/share/main/meta/key/S8I7N60U246 … Expecting much visitor surprising!pic.twitter.com/dXHu4K0nyB
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But I remember tales of
#rentacrowd being brought in to small companies to convince prospective clients of their viability.
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In the enterprise market you lose deals strictly because of your lower headcount regardless of how much you punch above your weight.
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Hmmm... Is that really through? I always believe we'd need outside investment only when we've reached problem/Solution fit and product/ market fit. At that point, all the startup has in mind is scaling... Which always may require hiring more people.
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