Your work is cloud-based; your start-up has a $25,000 per year subscription to Amazon Web Services to host your work pages. Access to the Amazon suite of tools that you use in your computer-aided-design service will be $13,000 per year per new design professional. You are advertising the job as a $60,000 per year position; with taxes and benefits, that will be a $70,000 charge to the start-up per new design professional. You and your partner do not draw a salary, but you receive the profit from the start-up.

These new professionals are design specialists, but they have never worked with your start-up before. You estimate that each of you will put in extra time during the week supervising these workers; that time commitment is listed in the last column of this table.

1. Will you be a profitable start-up if you don't expand? Explain in detail your definition of profit and how you reached your conclusion.

2. If you wanted to have the highest accounting profit for the start-up, how many design professionals will you hire for the coming year? Explain your reasoning, being sure to define and calculate the accounting profit of your start-up.

3. What is the difference between accounting profit and economic profit in this example? Explain. If you wanted to have the highest economic profit for the start-up, how (if at all) would you change your analysis from what you presented in (2)?

4. Make a graph that illustrates the marginal revenue from each additional designer and the marginal cost of employing each one. Use that graph to illustrate your answers to questions (2) and (3). Be sure to provide an explicit explanation of the connections between your answers to (2) and (3) in the graph.

5. The Professor of the Practice in your Entrepreneurship class heard about your plans to hire and said "You have another scarce resource that you are ignoring!" What could she talking about? Explain how your answer here is different from your answers in (2) and (3), and outline in two sentences a way that you have dealt with, or will deal with, her concern.

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline Number of added professionals for the coming year & Dollars of revenue generated by your start-up in that year & Your time spent per week on start-up (each of you) \\ \hline None & $150,000 & 15 \\ \hline One & $270,000 & 20 \\ \hline Two & $360,000 & 25 \\ \hline Three & $400,000 & 30 \\ \hline Four & $430,000 & 35 \\ \hline \end{tabular}