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Holiday gifts for employees
I am pretty bad with gifts and in the past years I was awarding monetary bonuses to folks who work with us. I am not particularly keen on the idea of bonuses mostly due to the fact that we can't quite ...
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How do you manage employee holiday requests?
I'm currently doing some research into how companies manage employee holiday requests for a startup I'm considering.
So, my question is:
What do you use to manage holiday requests, and what systems ...
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How do you structure/run your company to ensure you maintain control over the finances?
I've repeatedly heard the advice (from successful business owners) to not give up direct control over the company finances. It seems that enough founders out there have been burned by seemingly ...
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Manage Business Name while keeping Personal Brand
I am going to start doing freelance web development starting in the next couple of months, but on the side I a going to work on some software to put forth in a SaaS model. I would like to do ...
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Is there a market for yet another Project Management tool?
I have the ambition to build a Project Management tool, that has visual analytics capabilities. I have successfully tested the concept of my idea 3 times. But before putting all my effort into ...
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Rules of good email communication
What are the rules of good style in business email communication, regarding timeline of message exchanging?
I mean, how fast the incoming message should be answered? What are the most possible delay ...
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What skills should i get to start?
im a system administrator and have some ideas and small amount of money to spare.
Despite i am a tech guy, i actually have a problems learning programming(trying a few times with deplhi then with ...
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Field Service Management
I need to manage going door-to-door to 700 properties. I need to be able to account for each property whether they require my service. Then I will need to provide that service every 2 weeks. I've ...
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Trying to figure out a general business modus operandi. What's yours?
In terms of personal business practice, how do you generally handle things?
To be more specific, do you do the all-eggs-in-one-basket approach? Or, do you diversify with many projects ...
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How does an entrepreneur's perfectionism do harm to the business?
Maybe in order to be better, a business loses more?
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What's the core to assure a small business successful from a management perspective? [closed]
Please don't tell me that it is "hard-working". I certainly want to play it intelligent.
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So I'm building a web application
I'm building a pretty standard web application - login, do some searches via some well defined paramaters, get a list of results, drill down on a result to see details about the results. While I've ...
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How do you manage ideas (engineering changes) in a start up?
I'm involved, as a software developer, in an early stage (pre-profit) start up. The product is at a point where the basic core is implemented and we are building out features and adding polish, so ...
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How to recover from the loss of a project?
I had a project where I had employed 25 people, and the client took back the project. Now all the employees are completely idle.
Any suggestions for how I can cope up with the sudden loss? I am ...
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Best way to conduct a private beta of an application?
I have an app which I'm looking to start in private beta testing soon, but I'm needing an application/cms to allow me to manage it (i.e. hand out codes, provide tickets, help centre). Any ideas? ...
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What to look for in a Chief Operating Officer?
What traits/requirements should we look for in a successful COO? (We are in software development)
As someone who would maximize the output of our development teams, our COO would oversee multiple ...
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Tool for reseller management
We have a web application we want to start selling on a per month basis.
We have several resellers that we would like to have resell our application and make a margin on doing so.
We don't want to ...
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The Startup-CEO Roadmap - What's the best approach for being a great startup CEO?
At best it's a tough job and at worst its an impossible job. I've hear experienced CEO's complain about investors that "they love you 'til they hate you". Over the course of a number of CEO gigs or ...
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At what point do you cut features?
I have a couple of features in my product that are really important but, as it stands, are not fully implemented / designed or integrated.
At what point do I remove them from the product?
I know ...
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How do I manage my time as my startup grows?
I am in between blogging daily and running a new expansion to the blog where we expanded into a new social network, this means managing features, launches, marketing, PR etc. what are the best tools ...
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What is a standard practice decision model for a new parent company?
I've been working for a few years in a small IT consulting company. Recently, I came up with an idea for a software product (unrelated to the company's core business), presented it to the board, and ...
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Do investors require a mangement team? What if there isn't one?
From an investor point of view, the cliche is "investor prefers type A management team with a type B product rather than the reverse".
A startup cannot afford CFO, CEO. Founder has to roll up the ...
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Who are some of your role model startup leaders?
Who comes to mind when you think about extraordinary leadership behind a startup? What qualities make them stand out to qualify?
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Can a non-developer/non-technical manage developers?
Any positive/negative experiences? Advice? I personally feel that my professional life as a developer is now more difficult, it feels harder to explain things and also to prove my worth without being ...
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How do you manage risk in a venture?
What are the types of risk that one can encounter in a startup? How can you manage or cope with uncertainty? How can you minimize risk?
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How can I best utilize AdWords to test product ideas?
In order to test interest in a product, I've been told that its useful to use AdWords. What's the best way to maximize the usefulness of AdWords. How do I measure whether or not an idea is useful? ...
