How much did you spend on your startup before you got ramen profitable?
jacquesm: Camarades.com was funded from a software licensing scheme that brought in about 700,000 annually. In one year all the licensing income was spent on salaries for employees we hired and bandwidth (which was very expensive back then), the second year the business became profitable when we added 24x7 media advertising.The licensing deal was abolished and the licensed software became completely free as long as people would host their video streams with us.After that the whole thing was spun out as a different company underneath the parent, and extra shareholders came on board.All told I figure about a million went in to it before it was really profitable, because it was launched off an existing stream of income we had in that sense a relatively easy time of it. It definitely is a lot of money to spend on something you are not sure is going to take off though, fortunately it did.