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How to charge a client for outsourced work on hourly contracts?
I run a small web development company.
I take on a few clients and do much of the work myself.
Typically I build e-commerce shops or basic wordpress sites.
Sometimes the development is beyond the ...
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Freelance subcontractor used to be great, but now becoming less responsive
About a year ago I started working with a remote subcontractor, who has done some really great work for me since then. It is an ongoing project, and he has been very responsive and easy to work with. ...
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defining voting and non-voting membership interest in a Delaware LLC agreement [closed]
In a delaware llc agreement can an initial member be non voting?
If so, and according to the rules below, what is the appropriate language and format to define membership classification in exhibit A?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do I pull this team together again?
I'll try to keep this as brief as I can. Recently I have taken up a position within a big agency where I am responsible for an 'innovation cell'. People can voluntarily join this cell and they get to ...
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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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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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Looking for advice on developing my skills as a CTO
I'm currently in the process of building a startup with two co-founders (both are business people). Since I've been a developer in a wide-range of technologies I'll handle the CTO role.
This won't be ...
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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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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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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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What are techniques to elicit requirements from customers who don't understand their needs?
Question:
How do you prevent a situation where you have to produce work-product work first and get client feedback before getting on the right track to meet their needs?
Are there techniques to help ...
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What business model “frameworks” are available to help lead/manage a business?
As the FAQ for this site notes:
Topics include financing, hiring employees, legal, marketing, sales, compensation plans, banking, payroll, benefits, and more.
There are a lot of different but ...
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How to structure even number of board of directors?
We are in the process of setting up a board structure for our startup. Everybody on the board will have their own veto rights on important matters, such as capital injection, spending limits, getting ...
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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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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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Employee abusing sick leave
We have a very important employee at our startup who has been consistently abusing sick days. Unfortunately being a small company we would have a very hard time replacing him at this point but his ...
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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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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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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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The startup I work for is slashing my last pay periods paycheck without notice
This question is not directly related to a creating or running a startup, but I guess this is one of the things that can happen at a startup and I'd love to hear responses from both sides of the ...
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How to Guide the Amount that Employees Work?
I run a well-funded startup. We're fortunate to have built a kick-ass team with a great product and good early traction. But I worry that our team's work ethic is sliding into stasis. Most of my ...
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E-Myth Revisited - how does it apply to an ISV startup?
A few people have recommended the "E-Myth Revisited" book to me (and its on Joel reading list IIRC) and it gets very consistently good reviews.
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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...
Support
- Clients email a support email, this opens a ticket, notifies ...
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How do I motivate someone who values his time significantly more than money to come to work on time?
I'm looking for a strategy to negotiate punctuality with an employee who is quite skilled. However, I fear that docking his pay may not have an impact because he values his own time more highly than ...
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What type of employee do I need?
My SaaS company consists of myself (founder and developer), another developer, and a support person. Our new app is starting to gain traction, and as a result, I'm on the phone with potential / new ...
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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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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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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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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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What are the best books to learn project management for a start up? [closed]
I was wondering which books are the best to learn good project management techniques to successfully run a startup.
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What are good books on management and organization to excel as a startup COO?
Preferably specifically targeted for startups in Tech/IT.
I seem to find a lot about large corporations, but very little good literature about scaling from a small/midsize into a large corporation, ...
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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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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? ...
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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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Running a dating site - Use volunteers for administration - how to keep them motivated?
I'm running a dating site and I have 3 volunteers working on the administration (approving photos, profiles, removing stalkers, etc). The problem I'm having is that they are, as volunteers, very ...
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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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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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How to go ROWE (result only work environment)?
Even though we are a startup and heavily leaning on result-only work environment model, I noticed it's really hard to do this correctly, we still do have core hours and so many similar stuff and 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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How do I calculate how much my hour is worth?
I run a software development company (mostly potential so far, not amazing amounts of income). I am often in doubt of how much I should spend in order to save one of my own working hours. I know that ...
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Using a Staffing Agency - Is it a Bad Idea?
If you've exhausted your personal network (and friends' networks), and now need to hire people who have skills that you don't have, would you try working with a staffing agency?
I've heard a lot of ...
