Ask HN: Influx of investment?

[curiousquestion]

ASK HN:

Question #1: If you had an influx of investment capital into a web startup and wanted to be sure to spend the money wisely (Technology department) what would you spend it on? It's not a done deal, but this would be a multi-million dollar influx of capital into our project.

Question #2: What are the questions you would ask yourself to assess the scenarios, or are there any good "rule of thumb" formulas out there?

Question #3: the initial word is approx. 15% would go to Technology dept. Does this sound like a reasonable allocation given that this is a web startup?

PS. Please don't ask specific questions about the identity of the startup. I would prefer you pose your questions or comments to the thread as hypotheticals.

I'm fairly frugal by nature, but when I see something I have to have, and understand the value, I'm not shy about pulling the trigger.

[maxdemarzi]

The point of the money is to scale fast. So everything that supports that.

From the tech side, enough machines/devs/ops/training to get continuous integration flowing and increase your development speed.

[websiteguy]

For a web startup - large monitors, powerful dev machines, extra servers for testing and running stuff, free drinks and free food