What Could You Build with Just $10,000?

Many of those I know very well because the founders contacted me with questions before launching a cheaper competitor. In all honesty I don't think about them at all. Our goal isn't to build a $1B company and have this complete monopoly position. The opposite is true. We deliberately stay small, work only with a few companies and basically do work that we really really love. The reason all the great companies have big in-house design teams is that design is about more than cheaply moving pixels from one person to the other. Because we go deep with each startup, we learn a lot about everything what works and what doesn't. In other words, we learn about how our design decisions impact business. How they increase conversion, profits, etc. And so this deeper level of involvement allows us to use that knowledge and expertise with the next startup. For many startups, just having something that looks ok is enough, and for those, the cheaper competitors are the way to go. For others who want to build a great product for their customers.. those who care about details and using design to grow their business, those are the only companies we work with.

Every time that problem occurs, we hire new people. The model basically funds its own growth, so when scaling issues rattle the system, we can hire people with the cashflow that's already there.

In many of these cases the founders were drawing salaries relatively early in the company's lifecycle. A couple had substantial early revenue so it wasn't much of a hardship.

My first thought was a medium sized shed, maybe with a cement floor.

I'd completely misread it and came to a snap judgment. My apologies.

$6200 for an LS3 on eBay. Pull the heads and send them to advanced induction for their porting services. $1100 for that, then a matching cam from them.