What is the inital costs for a tech startup? Do you have any checklist or spreadsheet?
16th July 2013
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Initial costs can be incredibly low—a few bucks for a domain name, $40/month or so for VPS hosting. Things only start to get expensive when either you need to scale up to multiple servers (which means you’re doing well) or when you start to pay salaries.
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