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34answers
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What fun and low-cost fringe benefits/perks would you offer to employees?
Let's face it. As startups, we can't really offer top-dollar salaries to our employees. But we can offer some fun benefits that the big companies can't/won't. Here are a few that w …
22
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27answers
2k views
Entrepreneurs, what are the 3 best pearls of wisdom you’ve received for your startup ventures?
This is general guidance that you've found is key in achieving success. Can be marketing related, funding, technology, hiring, anything. If you could just pick 3 that you think hav …
20
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14answers
728 views
How to start a business and not destroy your marriage?
Although the question has the word "marriage" in the title, it is really about any most important relationship in a founder's life, be it husband/wife, fiancee, boyfriend/girlfrien …
16
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8answers
823 views
How to split up revenue between partners who contribute different amounts of work
My co-founder and I will soon launch a micro ISV. Our current agreement states that we split ownership 50-50. However, since we reached the ownership agreement the amount of work …
16
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4answers
874 views
What are Some of the Most Successful Low Budget Startup Marketing Campaigns You’ve Seen?
I'm curious if anyone has great examples to share of their own startups or others achieving highly successful and visible media attention, customer attraction or general brand awar …
16
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15answers
562 views
[meta] Why is there so little voting on this site?
I was one of the early users of Stack Overflow (the granddaddy of the software that runs this site) and one of the things I notice here is that many people are contributing answers …
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26answers
2k views
What Blogs + Websites Have Provided the Most Help for Your Startup?
I'll share a few of my own, but I'm really curious about what others read:
http://techmeme.com/
http://delicious.com/popular/
http://news.ycombinator.com/
http://www.avc.com/
htt …
14
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8answers
2k views
Ideal office space layout - open or offices?
I have worked in a variety of environments wanted to share my opinions and see what others thought on the subject of ideal office space layout. Once our lease is up (in a few year …
13
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9answers
482 views
What personal productivity / time management / motivational tips & tricks do you use?
What little tips and tricks do you use to try and be as productive as possible each week plus be as motivated as possible? Here are a few I use:
I will schedule meetings that nor …
13
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6answers
446 views
What’s the best way to find/evaluate a Marketing co-founder?
As a follow-on to my last question What is the ideal mix of founders for a SaaS startup? it seems that a Marketeer is important to a SaaS startup. I think it's fairly easy to find …
13
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8answers
556 views
What mistakes have you made trying to “save money”?
I "SAVED" the $40 per month in fees for a payroll service by doing everything myself.
Even though I spent quite a bit of time dealing with tax forms instead of my product, I still …
13
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15answers
924 views
How to become more of a risk-taker?
I hear stories all the time about entrepreneurs who take out a second mortgage to start a business, run their personal credit cards through the roof, and put a whole lot on the lin …
12
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10answers
408 views
How to reject Feature Requests?
How do you reject feature requests nicely especially when the feature request is made publicly via twitter, uservoice or something like ideastorm?
For us general reasons to reject …
12
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20answers
1k views
What’s more important: releasing early or getting it right?
Hi all,
From your point of view and experience, what is more important when you are building a web based app:
release ASAP (eventhough it might not follow best practices) or
r …
12
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30answers
2k views
How to pick a platform for a startup web 2.0 app?
I am looking for recommendatins from the successfull entreprenurs on this forum to advise me on the best software technology platform to develop my web2 webapp on.
The web2 app wi …