The document estimates the costs to build a typical web startup over 6 months. It breaks costs down into 3 parts: costs of having a company like accountancy ($300/month) and lawyers ($500 one-time); costs of building the product like a graphic designer ($1000 one-time) and front-end developer ($700 one-time); and costs of production environment like a domain ($5 one-time) and server ($20/month). The total estimated cost to build the startup over 6 months is $4,625, which the author says is an amount that could be invested without raising money from investors.

1. Karol Zielinski
karolzielinski.com @KarolZielinski
How Much Does It Cost to Build
a Startup?

2. Yeah, I know one startup does not equal
another startup.

3. But let’s say you want to build more or less
a typical web business, web startup.

4. In such case your costs could be split into…

5. 3parts

6. 1
Costs of having a company

7. Accountancy
$300 per month should be enough

8. Lawyers
one-time cost of $500 should be enough

9. Other costs
let say $100 per month

10. 2
Costs of building the
product/tool

11. Let’s say you are
the business/product guy
and you have a co-founder
that is able to code

12. Graphic designer
one-time cost of $1000

13. Front-end developer/webmaster
one-time cost of $700

14. 3
Costs of production
environment

15. Domain
one-time cost of $5

16. Server
$20 per month

17. The other costs?

18. No, there’s no place
for other costs.

19. You don’t need to travel and attend
conferences at this stage

20. You don’t need to travel and attend
conferences at this stage
You don’t need to buy other SaaS
services at this stage.

21. You don’t need to travel and attend
conferences at this stage
You don’t need to buy other SaaS
services at this stage.
You don’t need to hire more people
at this stage

22. You just need to focus
on building your product.
And only on this.

23. Let say you’re going to build
your startup in half a year.

24. Let’s sum up all of that…

25. ($300*6) + $500 + ($100*6) + $1000 +
$700 + $5 + $20

26. $4 625

27. A lot or not?

28. You are able to invest such an amount
of money on your own, without raising
money from an investor.

29. http://karolzielinski.com
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