[kimixa]

It also requires significant capital investment on top of whatever it takes to hire them. The equipment isn't cheap, and the entire stack of knowledge you need to hire in spiders out significantly, and with the lack of experience likely would take a long time to truly fill all the knowledge gaps. It may not be obvious what you're lacking until you start hitting walls.

Bootstrapping via external investors experienced in the sector is way faster, but comes with costs, as shown in the deals here. But that's true in every market.