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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7655209" data-attributes="member: 58197">Actually it's not, considering the stated size of their staff. They have, what, eight people? When you factor in the costs of running a business (you have to have a building, keep the lights on, et cetera), plus salaries, benefits, corporate taxes, and all the rest of it, the bills add up quick. $425,000 is a lot of money for individuals, but in the business world it's--not chump change, exactly, but certainly not unreasonable for 5 months of dedicated work by 8 people.The real problem is that they don't seem cognizant of the need to scale back their ambitions, or they simply can't conceive of how to do it. It's obvious they aren't going to hit their goal, or half their goal. They'll be lucky to get a third of the way there. If I were in charge over there, I'd sit down and look at the software as it stands. I'd figure out the absolute minimum required to get something to market, even if it's just a character builder for iPhone. Then I would assign one (1) person to executing that minimum, scrape up the money somehow to pay that person, and send the rest of the company back to doing whatever they were doing before Morningstar came up. They would have a much better shot at getting this project off the ground if they could show us something functional.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7655209, member: 58197"] Actually it's not, considering the stated size of their staff. They have, what, eight people? When you factor in the costs of running a business (you have to have a building, keep the lights on, et cetera), plus salaries, benefits, corporate taxes, and all the rest of it, the bills add up quick. $425,000 is a lot of money for individuals, but in the business world it's--not chump change, exactly, but certainly not unreasonable for 5 months of dedicated work by 8 people. The real problem is that they don't seem cognizant of the need to scale back their ambitions, or they simply can't conceive of how to do it. It's obvious they aren't going to hit their goal, or half their goal. They'll be lucky to get a third of the way there. If I were in charge over there, I'd sit down and look at the software as it stands. I'd figure out the absolute minimum required to get [i]something[/i] to market, even if it's just a character builder for iPhone. Then I would assign one (1) person to executing that minimum, scrape up the money somehow to pay that person, and send the rest of the company back to doing whatever they were doing before Morningstar came up. They would have a much better shot at getting this project off the ground if they could show us [I]something[/I] functional. [/QUOTE]

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