[jdsully]

A startup is just so difficult that you really can't get away with stuff like that and survive.

It's very rare you can fire your dev team and get away with it, your product will not be good enough for years on end while you learn and grow. On the flip side customers will wonder why their point of contact is now gone if you fire the main contact they were dealing with. Plus how are you going to get more of these customers now?