His point #7:
>[Myth:] It costs nothing to get a site up and running. Forget it.
>These days, almost no one but the richest companies can afford to
>staff a new large-scale Web site business. We lose a programmer, we
>can hardly afford to replace him. Just to hire an investor-relations
>professional costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars. The market
>for Web professionals is so thin that you have to pay fortunes to
>get anybody with a brain and then top that off with a hefty dollop
>of stock options. And once you get them, they tend not to know as
>much as you thought they did! It is expensive to open the doors
>every day. The labor shortages and labor costs for the lowest level
>programmers and execs are totally out of control. Just mind-boggling.
>
>(In truth the labor inflation is scary. There is now a barrier to
>entry. It is hiring quality people. They just don't come cheap.)
Doug