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What to do when a finishing shop ruins 10% of our parts?
Our brand new company has had 200 sets of aluminum parts machined.
We then took them to another shop that grained and anodized the parts for us.
When we went to pick them up yesterday, they told us ...
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Development Costs for a Tablet or Reader
How much would it cost to let an engineer develope a tablet like touch device for me? And how to find one?
I only need a ballpark estimate for calculating. I have no idea about the costs of a ...
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Server costs for video startup
I've been going over some of the posts here regarding server costs but couldn't really find any information specific to my needs. I'm planning on creating a mobile app that deals with users uploading ...
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Where to find the cheapest electricity?
Say I wanted to start a business that relies heavily on electricity (though not induction-heavy electricity, like welding or the like would produce, standard electricity used used by computers). A ...
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Are there any benchmarks for hosting/infrastructure/licensing costs for a SaaS provider?
Does anyone know of benchmarks or comparisons for hosting/software/infrastucture costs for a SaaS startup?
We are running at about 3.2% of Gross Revenue and 11% of net revenue. We feel like we are ...
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Mobile Software Pricing - How do I find the right price?
My startup is developing a mobile web application for an established enterprise ERP/CRM software package.
The software is essentially a mobile web application that is installed on the customers ...
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Finding boxes for a startup
I have a startup operation in the lines of a traditional business. Shipping tangible products to customers. I order the inventory in bulk from factories in China. However, I need to ship orders to ...
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What are the variables that I must consider in putting together the accounting and legal fees budget?
I am estimating the total amount I need to spend to get things started the right way, but I can't figure out how much I should allocate for accounting and legal services.
My startup will be ...
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Payroll concerns?
Has anyone used the online payroll system called "SurePayroll"? If so what were the pros and cons? Please tell the good, bad, and the ugly.
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How to best project cost of storing and streaming videos?
Cost of streaming video is just so subjective of how much time a particular video gets seen by individuals, because that would impact I/O cost.
Whats the best way to project costs in this scenario?
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Is building a web appliation from scratch cost-effective?
I am trying to find the most cost effective approach to building a web application based in PHP. I want to know if using a PHP Framework such as, Social Engine would be best to avoid having to avoid ...
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Estimate Hosting Fees
Is there a good resource for estimating the cost of app hosting? I am bidding on a project that will likely receive a large amount of traffic (100,000 uniques/mo is reasonable). The app is fairly ...
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What it takes to be a “nimble” startup?
Having worked in a startup since the mid 1990s, the most evident advancement in starting a co. or launching your idea is that the cost barrier to entry has been drastically lowered. Infrastructure ...
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Source for average customer acquisition costs by industry or retail category
My partners and I are building a site which provides a unique way for merchants to acquire new customers.
To guide the development of our initial pricing strategy, we are looking for some benchmarks ...
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Can anyone recommend an inexpensive on-line service for expense tracking?
In my last job, we used an on-line tool called webexpenses to capture and process personal business expenses. I get the impression it is targeted at medium to larger firms & I wasn't a huge fan, ...
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How totally insane would it be for your price to be “whatever you think it's worth”
This is a hosted (zero-install) web application. You create and account and stuff happens. The unattended costs (ignoring tech support, ads, etc) are easy to compute per customer.
Here's the idea: ...
