Can a poorly presented startup website do well?
tsally: Tarsnap has reached profitability with a website that has no style. http://www.tarsnap.com/  Of course, the crowd he is catering to doesn't really care about frills.  Heck, frills can actually be dangerous in the security world.  And Colin's got the reputation to back his company up.For your average case though, a lack of presentation is going to hurt you.