How much does it cost to start a software company in the early stage? What kinds of servers are there?

I have been a software company 18 years. Let me talk about my experience.

If you are a software company, either you are in charge of sales or you are in charge of technology, otherwise you don't understand. I suggest not to do it, it will cost too much.

10 years ago, the salary of developers was very low. It used to cost 3,000 yuan, but now it costs 20,000 yuan to start a new company.

I will take myself as an example:

The cost of 1. server is not high. It is enough to buy 1 and 2 servers in Alibaba Cloud in the early stage, and then increase them according to the number of customers. Early period1-20,000/year. At present, our company has been established for 3 years, with 200 customers and 200,000 servers invested 1 year.

2. Personnel cost, I am responsible for the technology myself, but I don't do code development.

The personnel cost is 654.38+00,000/year.

Develop 4 people: 2 front-end +2 back-end, considering five insurances and one gold, 20,000 people, 1 month 80,000 * 65438+February 960,000, regardless of bonus. Why do we have to have two technicians? It is particularly difficult to recruit technicians. I talked to hundreds of people on the front-end BOSS. Once someone is not suitable to leave, your development will stop, but the salary will be paid as usual, so the technical post must have a backup.

Test: I just started to work part-time, but I still have to recruit 1 later, so I can take care of customer service.

Customer service: I started as a part-time job.

Sales: I started as a part-time job.

Product design: outsource or do it yourself.

3. Rent: find a shared space (save everything at home), 5 people, estimated at 6,000 yuan/month *12 = 72,000.

4. Develop computers, a total of five, 25,000.

5. Personal living expenses are 65,438+00,000 * 65,438+02 = 65,438+020,000 per month (you must provide living expenses for yourself when starting a business).

Regardless of outsourcing and product research and development, it is planned to make no money at least 1 year, and the estimated investment is =100+2+2.5+7.2+120,000.

Before I got the investment, I actually spent more than 2 million yuan, and most of the things were done by six people (four developers+1 customer service/testing+myself). When I first started my business, the front and back ends were not separated, and the cost of technicians was relatively low, but I invited five people to the sales team. Now personal contacts and sales ability have improved, and a lot of money has been saved in the initial stage of sales. Moreover, starting a business now requires comprehensive ability, and it is difficult to succeed by individuals. Without this money in the early stage, I will be very passive. I was in debt to start a business, so I suffered a lot in funding negotiations to survive. In the end, you will find that the money invested is much more than the one-time investment.

The success rate of starting a business is low. You must have a sense of accepting failure. You really want to do something, and you can go all out for your dreams. Otherwise, starting a business is not recommended.

Of course, starting a business is also beneficial and will change a person. I am a wooden IT man. Through starting a business, I learned how to develop, design products, do sales and talk about investment, and my personal psychological endurance was N times stronger. I don't regret earning less money, and I will choose again, because starting a business has given me more possibilities. Even though I am heavily in debt, many people give me a chance to start over every year.

Therefore, money needs to be considered, but more importantly, why do you start a business? If you have an internal goal to guide you, you can start a business even if you have no money.