[carom]

The people aren't cheap but you can do more with less. Having one expensive competent engineer is cheaper than four bad ones and a PM.

[aleksiy123]

I can always easily burn extra money to spend more for the same thing.

But that doesn't really tell me anything about how to hire competent people who can build things fast for cheap.

What I'm getting at is "just hire extremely competent people" isn't really a way out of the original statement.

Pick 2 (fast, cheap good).