&gt; Engineering, product design, graphic design (these are not the same), marketing, and sales are all needed in various proportions, depending on the product, to make a &quot;marketable product.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m well aware. I&#x27;ve done this many times.<p>&gt; Between all of those roles you could easily chew up $1million in 1 year<p>You could easily chewup $100 million too. Does that mean we should go ahead and say we can&#x27;t make a marketable product for $100m? Of course not. Constraints are a fact of life - whether that be time&#x2F;money&#x2F;whatever. The challenge is getting to market given the resources at your disposal.<p>&gt; standard Silicon Valley compensation<p>The business in question is based is OR. Also, and I&#x27;m going to sound facetious here but I&#x27;m really not trying to be, most businesses are not based in SV.