Frozen_Turtle

Eh, kinda defending OP here. I work for a tech consulting startup/small business and our web page is literally a 403 and has been so for 3+ years. We've had no need for a web site, we get plenty of clients through word of mouth. Though recently things are changing and we may have to get one soon.

Take care of the people who are already giving you money!

Yeah, the priority should always be take care of your current customers before attracting new ones (with a working website). Hard for engineers to digest, but that's why they're not business people!

Nope, but as a startup you have very limited time and resources. So if you have a great client base and a well stocked portfolio that doesn't need a public facing end, why dump time into something that will get you customers when you're not really looking for more internet customers and instead want to focus on the projects you currently have going?

Word of mouth and references are way more convincing than a flashy website. At least that's how we've been operating for the past few years.

Have you started hiring underlings yet? How do you find good CS people, especially when your main product isn't "sexy", or you're a small consulting company, or doesn't have a central consolidating idea other than "Hell yeah code correctness."

I'm part of a startup that keeps doubling in size and revenues... and suddenly we've had a dearth of technical talent. It's actually starting to be quite a bottleneck; we have started hiring people remotely in Canada, which isn't a long term solution. (We're based in Illinois, USA)