Still not sure what kind of money we're looking for but talking to other startup friends (and assuming the money is in SV and have to relocate) it's about 175k-200k for 1 year of 2 full-time coders. I can personally live rather cheaply (heck $15k seed lasted over a year and I'm still running with it) but it depends on the going rate for rails coders and such. Not many coders I've come across care about equity these days and are all "fuck you, pay me" haha. https://qht.co/item?id=1097188
So increase that amount depending on what we want to do - 3 full-time devs and a business/sales guy for 18 months, or 3 full-time devs, a biz guy and part-time designer? Then I have to think about if I want to take the Venture Hacks route of "raise as much as you can, when you can" or the Om/Fred Wilson route of "milestone funding".. enough to get to X, then raise again. What do I know about funding I'm just a coder. :)
if that was the case i would stay in atlanta for sure. i live right next to a huge park (Piedmont) with my black lab. i often go running through the park with her, spend time out there on sunny days and so on. it can't get better than this for a dog owner! that and there are lots of women in Atlanta :) - a top 10 city for singles the last few years. I believe it was #1 in 2008 by Citysearch or some other site. Can't say the same about San Francisco.
So increase that amount depending on what we want to do - 3 full-time devs and a business/sales guy for 18 months, or 3 full-time devs, a biz guy and part-time designer? Then I have to think about if I want to take the Venture Hacks route of "raise as much as you can, when you can" or the Om/Fred Wilson route of "milestone funding".. enough to get to X, then raise again. What do I know about funding I'm just a coder. :)