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Because I can't. I made personal commitments to them that we had the money to pay them, due to my faulty financial numbers of course. I feel particularly bad to break my personal promises...

I definitely learned a lesson though.

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Are you being serious? IF you can't afford the developer you HAVE TO lay them off, give them an extra week's severance pay or whatever, but give them and yourself a chance to move forward

Sure if I absolutely can't pay them, that's what I have to do. But I'm just trying to make it work. I'm trying to squeeze all possibilities in the final month or so to make it work for everyone.

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