How much should a startup company spend on office ambience?

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Any takers for this discussion?
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  Ambience can come in when the firm strong enough to handle a larger work force and have enough resources
  
  Initially Just a table and a chair for the employees will do them a great good
  
  Spending too much in every small bit and loosing focus on the main objective is not really wise in the initial stages
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  micheal john

  First of all i work in a startup company, and i rate my company 2. as a fresher i wont look much into the posh stuff, but the main objective what to do or what you learn?
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  Abhijit Dey

  When there is enough traction and the company has gained enough revenue to break even on its investment, it would be the right time to spend on office space. If the work can be done from home then only a small office space with cubicles or desks for each employee would be good. Also included should be restrooms and a pantry room. If it's in terms of hiring then if you're sure that you could get very good talent, the ambience would matter to them. We have spent more on the working area and restrooms.
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  Anoop Kumar

  My take 4 (ambiance least matters), when a start-up going to hire new chicken heads they attract with what they have proved in market, founder's talent and vision to lead team and expertise.
  
  
  Off topic but here I found interesting Quora discussion about
  What have you learned as an early employee at a startup?
  #-Link-Snipped-#
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  Ambience doesnt matter at all. Startup essentially doesnt mean that we hire fresh graduates and we work with their physical presence.
  
  the days are long gone, we can work online like people work for CE. Ambience only matters after having sufficient funds and if we have many people coming into office to provide them some environment (which basically should be clean). Nothing else matters!
  
  I think if we are working on great stuff the free coffee doesnt matter much.