What has your startup venture financially cost you?
nailer: $AU 25,000, before I realized that employing other people who were more experienced as web developers was harder than learning web development myself (I have a hardcore Linux background, with no experience of the web until the last two years).Fortunately I have a decent job and paid off the debt. I've integrated Python into my day job and get to spend most of my time coding. Interestingly, the quality of my work as an IT architect has gone up - I've been playing with SOAP, XLWT (Excel API), PyOFC, Django, etc. for a variety of networking, reporting and automation tools for customers.