Short on cash? Not sure whether you should raise at a low valuation or go for a bridge round? How about cutting your expenses down to nothing.

Salaries are your biggest cost at a startup: Ben Sand has negotiated with hundreds of top engineers and professionals to work at 25-50% of their previous salary.

Prior to hiring, your biggest costs are your own burn: Ben has lived for 6 months on $2/day of food.

Travelling Internationally from Australia is either uncomfortable and draining in the back or way too much up the front. Ben pays for economy but flies in business and you can too.

Meta, which Ben co-founded built a product comparable to Microsoft’s Hololens. Microsoft reportedly spent over $4B while Meta had less than 2% of this to work with.

Stop raising and start saving. Here’s how to run your startup at a fraction of the cost while keeping people on mission and the results happening.