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		swolchok on May 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lean movie-making: Zombie flick wowing Cannes made... Your startup is certainly impressive, but I take issue with the statement that you only need $20000/year to develop it -- is your time worthless? If your startup makes $120000 in its first year, I doubt you'll be jumping in joy over a 200%-500% profit.

jerf on May 23, 2009 [–]

Uh... no, no that argument definitely doesn't scale like that. $100,000 profit for a year's work sounds like a plan to me.

swolchok on May 24, 2009 | [–]

The point was that we also measure startups by their cash costs, not their cost+time.

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