Rendering Community

[Jeff Mottle]

Originally Posted by EddieLeon

If you mean volume of work then I believe the site could have lots of it. It would just need to be marketed properly to a broad audience, such as, developers, architects, ad agencies, realtors, and other 3d companies/artists.

Regarding logistics, it would need some serious investment to get it off the ground properly ($200k - $500k). It will need a team of full-time programmers, designers, sales, etc... It can be started for less, but then the growth curve would be too slow and you would risk having a better funded competitor swooping in and beating you out.

I can definetly attest that the programming of somethign like this would definetly run in the 30-75K range if done properly.

[Justin Hunt]

I have a very good friend who is a project manager. Basically this is very close to what he does, set up the framework from location, IT, staffing, etc.

The project he is working on now is fairly modest in size but starting up from scratch a new branch of a call and research centre. Before he started the esimated cost of the project was around 1.3 million dollars. Now that he is on board and scoped out the real costs it is around 4million, conservitivly.

Just taking this as an example of how easy it is to underestmate what is involved in setting up such a venture, it would take a very special type of person to take on such a venture.

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