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Old 01-06-2013, 07:15 PM  
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Originally Posted by Xxaru Media View Post
I think this all speaks volumes about the state of the industry. And as for what it would cost for a newbie to break-in today? I think things have clearly progressed beyond the financial reach of the little guys nowadays. I think you’d need a team of people and a corporate sized budget to stand a chance. Even if you could get off the ground with as little as 50-100k, that’s still more than the average startup business has to work with. The small guys just aren’t going to have that kind of capital to invest.
look at Crakmedia - they went from 1-2 people in 2007 or 2008 to 60 (or 80?) people today

it's not impossible but they started just with traffic, not production, so the costs were not that big to start out with
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