Comments on: Costs and Startups – Advice for your CFO http://markmaunder.com/2009/costs-and-startups-advice-for-your-cfo/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:44:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mark http://markmaunder.com/2009/costs-and-startups-advice-for-your-cfo/comment-page-1/#comment-852 mark Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:55:30 +0000 http://markmaunder.com/?p=373#comment-852 Hey Justin! Such a funny coincidence - I wound up on your blog yesterday after googling something about Wordpress plugins. :) Good thoughts - there is definitely a time to spend money. Hey Justin! Such a funny coincidence – I wound up on your blog yesterday after googling something about Wordpress plugins. :)

Good thoughts – there is definitely a time to spend money.

]]> By: Justin Laing http://markmaunder.com/2009/costs-and-startups-advice-for-your-cfo/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Justin Laing Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:46:30 +0000 http://markmaunder.com/?p=373#comment-851 Hey Mark, Awesome point to have someone as a gatekeeper of expenses. We should totally be doing this more than we do! That being said, there is something else that has to be balanced here. The cost of the time to implement the improvement. Say that the limiting factor for your growth is engineering time. Partially that is money cause you can't afford to hire more people. If the choice is spend $1k more per month or take up 25% of an engineers time optimizing. I'd probably go for the $1k. If you have a non-technical person just blindly telling you to always optimize instead of buying hardware you might be spending more in time than the money to solve the problem with hardware. Always a tough balancing act. Hey Mark,
Awesome point to have someone as a gatekeeper of expenses. We should totally be doing this more than we do!
That being said, there is something else that has to be balanced here. The cost of the time to implement the improvement. Say that the limiting factor for your growth is engineering time. Partially that is money cause you can’t afford to hire more people. If the choice is spend $1k more per month or take up 25% of an engineers time optimizing. I’d probably go for the $1k. If you have a non-technical person just blindly telling you to always optimize instead of buying hardware you might be spending more in time than the money to solve the problem with hardware.
Always a tough balancing act.

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