$500 worth of sats is enough to run a decent pair of private channels but not much point if you don't need to move sats fast or receive them... 

one thing that is clear to me now, you open an outbound, with your 100k+ sats really you need to make them a bit bigger but that's minimal with many channel partners, and then you should open a bigger inbound one because you can, they are a lot cheaper, outbound channels you fill, inbound channels the other side fills