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growing. But you still need to anticipate the costsahead of time to be fully prepared. Here’s another analogy. Let’s say you havea commercial printing press company. Your main printer is currently printing5,000 flyers per day. It starts to malfunction, so you fix it with a “band-aid”solution. You know that your fix will get the machine back in action tocontinue producing 5,000 flyers per day. But if you ramp up to 10,000 flyers,the band-aid won’t be sufficient. Well, that’s a great problem to have. Whenyou get to that number, your daily business just doubled. But it comes withadded maintenance costs that you need to plan for. Hidden Cost #4: TrainingTraining is the most underestimated expense in terms of hidden software costs.The biggest mistake that people

make is assuming that their staff who is maintainingthe app is going to stay with  Japan WhatsApp Number List them forever. But that’s not going to happen. Inreality, some of your staff will make career decisions and leave you. You’ll beunhappy with other team members, and you’re going to fire them. This is juststandard procedure when it comes to running a business. There will always beturnover in personnel. What happens when you lose someone with crucial domainknowledge? Don’t assume that whoever you hire will be able to replace thatperson immediately. Just because someone is a good developer or a goodengineer, it doesn’t mean that they understand your software.

They are a goodengineer for the software that they’ve developed—not necessarily what you’vedeveloped. So it takes time for them to understand your business model,technical depth, infrastructure, and other components of your software. Theaverage cost to recruit, hire, and train a new employee is $4,000. In the techindustry, you can expect these costs to be even higher. I know some of youmight think that engineers are a dime a dozen, and you can find them anywhere.But even if someone is a blackbelt and an expert, they will not be an effectivepart of your team as soon as they come in. This takes time. So