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Code Review & System (Re)Architecture
I've recently been brought on with a small startup to serve as their technical advisor to a group of developers offshore. The product is an ASP .NET WebForms application. One of my first tasks was ...
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Can I train a programmer from internal staff?
I have a person on staff who has been doing a lot of admin type work: support, billing, etc. I am thinking that I will want another programmer (PHP/MYSQL/etc) in the next 6-12 months for some new ...
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How to manage developers who are inconsistent (i.e., very hot and cold)
I have worked with several developers who are very "hot and cold" in terms of their motivation. Sometimes they will slack off for weeks on a project and make zero progress, and other times they go ...
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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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In-house vs. 3rd Party PPC Management
I own a successful website selling a software product, but we do absolutely no in-house marketing at all. 75% of our sales come from affiliates promoting us. So, we'd like to become more involved in ...
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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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Micromanaging partner
We are a start-up working on a few projects and trying to build some strategic products alongside. This is a 3 member partnership setup with a development team of about 15 people. One person, let's ...
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Functional model of co-founders work
Here's the problem for software development startup.
We're two. One can do a decent hard-skill programming. The other one don't know anything, except he has some capital ( approx. less than 10k, in ...
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Mentor requesting for board of director role, should i offer director or advisor role to him?
We recently met a person through our contacts and he has shown interest in our startup & super liked the Idea. We had initially requested him to be our mentor, for which he agreed. In our next ...
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Will employer invest in my idea?
Let me describe a situation I happened to be in by now several times. I work in the field of detector/electronics/imaging systems development. I often get some new technical ideas and solutions, ...
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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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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 startups select relevant performance indicators?
Performance Indicators in existing businesses that have a defined business model and market are much easier to identify performance indicators for.
Within startup businesses, are there any ...
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Help with usurpers
I run a paranormal investigation team which was founded by me, the logo designed by me and the paperwork designed by me. Initial funding was from my credit cards and the group has been running just ...
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What are some best practices for managing user feedback?
After months and months and months of work, our team finally launched our first application.
We have been very fortunate to receive a lot of feedback and one of my first "goals" post-launch is to ...
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New Project Management startup business
What's the best way to market startup project management/facilities consulting company for homeowners, churches and businesses?
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best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling? [closed]
Best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling?
Actually, I am searching for the best protocols in managing follow up calls.
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Determining Limits of a Software Development Team
I'm currently managing 5 member (whom are also my friends) software development team for my startup and instead of looking for an angel investor I decided to finance my own product by my own. And in ...
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Managing multi-lingual website when you don't know the language
Internationalization and localization are some ways to test the water in various regions, to see which market you fit in best.
I wonder if any of you has any experience in a multi-lingual web (with ...
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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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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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Increasing the rate at which a startup gets things done
How can I improve the rate at which as a startup a group of 3 people get things done?
We are a group of 3, and have a few web apps that run in a mostly automated fashion. But improving on these ...
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Hiring and Skills Testing
Does anyone know of a comparable service to test a users skills to what they provide on elance? I like the ability to test various skills but I'm not sure if it preferable to have them set up an ...
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Any examples of large companies measuring profits and cashflow instead of making traditional cost/revenue budgets?
The following is a copy and paste from this discussion with Pierre 303:
Let us take an example where I believe that it is clear that there are no reasons for budget. Imagine a company, which has ...
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Looking for Project Management Software [closed]
Hi i am looking for a project management software or app for the mac that all the members in my company can use and see who is doing what and users can assign tasks for people to complete. I am ...
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Two services under one company. Is it OK to have this specific structure?
In my mind i have two companies. A in the A industry and B in the B industry. Even though in some cases those two industries may have things in common, they are different.
Of course, name branding, ...
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Operational Improvements for Tech Company
I'm looking for the magic trifecta of good/quick/cheap, what are some options for improving operational capabilities around...
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- Clients email a support email, this opens a ticket, notifies ...
