The process of applying ideas to practical problems; may refer to creation of a Web site, service, or software.
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Speech Recognition Software Development [closed]
I was thinking of launching a speech recognition software that would be directly installed on some websites. The problem is that it is difficult to find relevant information regarding the cost to ...
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Incubator for pay? [closed]
Say, I have:
An idea for a tech company / product, that I want to get realized.
Sufficient time, right now.
Seed capital, which I am willing also to spend on guidance.
Citizenship in a country in ...
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Pricing for Onshore/Offshore Product Development [closed]
I just opened a software solutions startup and I have questions about customer pricing. The business model is to use offshore engineers with a US project manager, as well as local engineers, with ...
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What should I do with all this data? [closed]
I have been collecting data on domain names for 7 years now. My servers visit about 18 million domains per day updating my database. There are about 150,000,000 active domain names in the database. I ...
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How to educate customers about importance of code quality?
I work as a remote developer for a small product development company. I always try to write code that is easily understandable, easy to manage, reuse and low on defects. I am quite a good tester as ...
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Equity in a business driven by software?
I am completely new to negotiating equity, and I don't know where I stand with regards to pushing back on potential offers of equity based on a new project.
If anybody could give me their view on my ...
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Building a B2B platform [closed]
My question is, what kind of "developer" or "programmer" would i need to find, that could help me build a similar platform to that of amazon, with their third party sellers selling to customers? Also ...
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Finding Investors/partners to fulfill the following needs
You've probably heard this before, but I came up with the idea for great product and I developed it. I measured the demand for it personally, by demonstrating it to the target audience and got a ...
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Do I need to register as LLC even if I plan to make my iOS apps free?
I have personally made some apps and I want to put them on the Apple app store as free apps. I will probably also make them open source on github or something. I had been reluctant to do so because ...
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How do I ask help and search people for contribution for my git/open source project
I am basically involved in wordpress site development but a self starter for rails. I want to transform my idea into a rail app and I am contributing it on git(at a very initial level this time), but ...
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Feasibility of a narrow focused development firm
I am curious if there is demand for a development firm which specialized only on front-end development. Most companies that I know of offer wide range of services — front, back, mobile, native apps, ...
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How do I develop my idea for a web app while lacking resources and development drive?
I have a web application idea with great potential that I trying to turn into a start up business. I currently work with building application in a .NET environment but for this personal project after ...
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Outsourcing development with friends and family money
My cofounders and I have bootstrapped so far to get a hardcoded (doesn't connect with a server) iOS prototype for $10k from a local outsourced developer. We have no traction yet and are in need of ...
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How do you ensure product quality is met when outsourcing development?
What terms can be written into an agreement to make sure that a product developed with an outside company meets quality standards such as uptime, speed, etc?
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What are the pros and cons of a web-only app?
I've developed a web-based RSS reader and it seems the next logical step would be to create apps for the various mobile platforms (iOS, Android, etc.). But I have no idea where to begin and I would ...
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As an app developer, should I have an NDA?
I am in the process of launching an LLC for app development. I already have a potential customer who has inquired about an app which I am currently creating mock-up designs for. Before I present the ...
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Getting projects for a software development company
We have formed our company (that is, incorporation is in progress) this November (2012).
Our company focuses on IT service management (ITSM) solutions and have very skilled professionals in the ITSM ...
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How to get started in the defense industry?
I've always been particularly intrigued by the defense industry in general amongst many other industries as I have a pretty strong entrepreneurial spirit since I was a kid, starting my first website ...
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Do I need a CMS or should I build from scratch?
I am working on my first web application, and can't figure out whether I should use a CMS like Joomla or Wordpress, or have the site built from scratch. For some background, the site will be sort of a ...
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When a huge company copies your startup
What do you do when a huge online company (as dominant as say Google, Apple, Microsoft etc in their respective niche) has a big feature that's been lacking in their very popular product, and your ...
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Startup looking for help in researching web development agencies [closed]
I'm a partner in a startup company, and we're having issues trying to find organizations within the US that are capable of certain skillsets in Web Development.
We are looking for great ...
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How do I get sponsors or funding for a project?
Here in Tanzania it seems that education is becoming less and less important. So I decided to design a "READ for SUCCESS" project which will convince people to back college/school and to motivate ...
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Find an engineering position at a startup
What is the best way to find an engineering position at a startup? Typical job listing sites don't often have postings for these opportunities. While I realize networking is key, how does one get the ...
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What is the fastest method to create the current, trendy websites (static 'n' dynamic)? [closed]
What is the fastest method to create the current, trendy websites (static 'n' dynamic)?
I have seen website being built from scratch, and from a pre-defined template.
I am little curious to know - ...
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What general terms should be in an agreement to market another company's product?
We are looking at potentially bringing to market a SaaS application from a company outside the U.S. It's a wonderful product that would benefit from our visibility, customer base, expertise, and more. ...
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Lead Generation Niches
I'm playing around with the idea of starting a Lead Generation Startup. I think there are some really experienced marketers who I don't want to compete with (like Experian, AppSumo, etc.), but at the ...
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Contact Us Forms
Are "Contact Us" forms still relavant to small businesses/startups or have other more social means (facebook, twitter, etc) become the preferred method of contact.
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To the Coders…what would you consider acceptable terms to join a new start up?
If you were approached by an idea guy (one with not much money), and lets say that the idea itself was an 8 to 10...what would you consider acceptable terms to join the start up? If you could give 2 ...
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Shares to programmers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
So I friend of mine has this idea for a kind of social network based on video blogging, for obvious ...
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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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What are the pros and cons of hiring a developer for your startup in some other location? [closed]
The design for a website is ready and I am looking for a developer who can to start with develop the minimum viable product (paying the resource monthly or as a contract) and if we get along well, ...
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what is a fair percentage ownership for sole developer of tech startup (4th co-founder)?
My husband was brought on as a 4th partner of a startup last year. Unfortunately, he did not take the LLC legal docs to a lawyer to make sure the % he was being offered was fair before signing.
He ...
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If I attend a hack-a-thon event to work on a prototype, how much ownership do I give up?
I was thinking about attending a hack-a-thon event to get help creating a prototype. I am a non technical founder and was told this route may be a good option. However, I just found out that you ...
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What kind of development team will we need?
How many developers would it take to build another Facebook? Or at least a trimmed down version. Can one good developer do it, or would we need a large team? I have three partners, none of us has ...
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Do 2 Part time Developers = 1 full time developer?
If I could partner with 2 or more part time developers, would this be enough and as good as having a full time developer? Eg 4 part time developers = 2 full time developers?
I am basing this on the ...
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Phone Apps service and charge back
I'm thinking to provide to my users the ability to receive some information on their phones for the sake of simplicity lets pretend that is a newsletter, so... once a month (user will decide the ...
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Equity when joining an established business
Given an offer to join an established company, earning at least a couple of million a year in revenue (under 10 employees) and which is a subsidiary to a multi billion dollar parent company; what is a ...
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Issues with Start-Up and Co-Founders
Currently I am stuck in a messy situation where I am the only designer/developer for the web driven start up, along with being co-founder, the other two co-founders (business guy and editor), are ...
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How do you manage ideas effectively?
I've been working on an idea with a while now and plan to go full startup come the summer. However, every now and then I'll get another awesome (at least, it seems awesome) idea. I'm never sure what ...
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What should be our commission/expectation if we can help a big company to stop losing money?
Short background: we are 3 developers who formed a small startup for a very niche market. We do mostly programing but recently we started to provide consultancy as well. We've been working with a very ...
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Do two co-founders pair program during early stage of startup?
I have a startup with 2 co-founders (me and my partner). My partner is a programmer, whereas I am a half-programmer, half-designer, half-business guy.
I have had exceptional experience with pair ...
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Have an idea - general outline - what's the next step?
A good friend (and former colleague of mine) has put together a general executive summary of a SaaS product idea. She has an excellent presentation, good statement of the need the product meets, high ...
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Am I a co-founder?
I'm trying to figure out what my role is...
Backstory:
Late last year (October/November) I was asked by an acquaintance If I'd be keen to help develop a SaaS product that he & his brother had ...
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percentage for revenue developer and sales man [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Im a developer of mobile apps [mostly iOS, a bit of android].
I work by day on iOS development, with ...
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Got a steady flow of Subscribers. Now how do I keep the ball rolling?
I've pre-launched my start-up two days ago. After being featured on a few sites, we now have a good influx of subscribers. Now I know an inevitable slow down subscribers will happen if I don't act ...
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How can I find Beta Test Couples for my New Game?
I am having trouble finding test couples to beta test my new couples' game and website. I have what I think is a great landing page, and get good feedback on it but because it's for adults (not porn ...
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Public transit app: possible revenues and IP issues?
I am looking at developing a website sort of like ones that NY-area commuter railroads have, showing train departure times and tracks. One major transit hub near me has no central location for this ...
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Mobile Web development environment; build or buy?
I already publish apps for the major platforms but our mobile development has lagged behind. I have my developers working on enhancements to our mobile site functionality, but I'm not sure whether to ...
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tech startup - code licensing and copyright
Me and my developers are developing the code for a tech startup that I have an equity with. I'm giving the code to the startup for the startup purpose use. However, since I'm the developer, I would ...
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Do I provide the development environment to an outsourced developer
If SaaS development is to be outsourced, do i need to provide the development environment for the developer, I mean is it pretty much a standard thing to do? Or a choice made out of personal ...
