Comment on How VC’s Get to “Yes”parentComments−diziet12y100k MRR does not mean that much if you've got staff costs. Let's break down super simple costs:Office - 5-10k/mo Employees - 10k/mo ea Servers - 5k/mo Legal/accounting/etc - 5k/mo Misc - 10k/moAll of a sudden with 10 employees you're losing 20-30k/mo. Want to hire 5 new amazing engineers? Now you're losing 80+k/mo.100k mrr is great if it is you by yourself or a tiny team, but to scale you need a lot more.
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100k MRR does not mean that much if you've got staff costs. Let's break down super simple costs:
Office - 5-10k/mo Employees - 10k/mo ea Servers - 5k/mo Legal/accounting/etc - 5k/mo Misc - 10k/mo
All of a sudden with 10 employees you're losing 20-30k/mo. Want to hire 5 new amazing engineers? Now you're losing 80+k/mo.
100k mrr is great if it is you by yourself or a tiny team, but to scale you need a lot more.