As a new startup with funding just around the corner, I am starting to think about tech purchasing policies as we on board new employees. We've budgeted $2500 in our financial statements. I believe in how dual screening enhances productivity, but I also believe in portability. Our product is a SaaS+ play directed towards enterprise so our tech team. We intend to configure the laptop as dual boot with linux mint (primary) windows 7 64 bit secondary.<p>Also, at what point should we start funding cell phones for our team? We will probably be dragging our feet on this point one unless we hear some cautionary wisdom from the crowd. :-)
New funding is not an excuse to burn money. I am a bit concerned when you bring up a comment like "funding cell phones for our team". The majority of startups don't do that, if any does at all (as far as I am aware of). Even if you guys do get funding, ask yourself what you "need" vs what you "want" and buy things that will ultimately help the people on your team and the company itself move forward. If the company needs to buy computers because everyone has been using their own machine, fine. But getting funding isn't an excuse to splurge, it shouldn't change the fact that you guys should still optimize and stay lean.