[krisrak]

hiring engineers is not a good idea, your startup team should have enough talent to do 90% of the work. Some use of the money could be for design art work, or marketing (free swag). For example if you were planning to launch your startup on iPhone only, you can now use the money to contract someone to develop for Android, WP7, blackberry, this money can make the startup more complete at launch.

[jaxn]

uh, wouldn't that be "hiring engineers"?

Or do you want the designers to build the blackberry app?

I think spending it on swag would be a horrible idea. I can't think of any company that succeeded because they had really great swag in the early months.

[krisrak]

I meant not hire full time engineers, $150 can only get u 2 engineers, get a app done on contract basis.