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The Road not Taken … where's the restart button?
If failed at a business startup, what does it take to have another go?
Precis: Left a safe academic job to start up my own services company ... just in time for the Global Financial Crisis. So now ...
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when invest in new ideas?
I've been working on a new product for a year. This new product allows me to start developing custom software to fit the needs of each customer but developing the same software isn't very interesting. ...
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Copyright infringement issue google play (An android app)
Today I received a mail from Google which state that your app has been removed from Google play due to copyright infringement. The person who register this copyright issue is a person who run his non ...
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getting reviews on a new website?
I am starting a price comparison website of a niche product category. when I go live I want reviews of the products and the vendors to exists. I see a lot of reviews on yelp and other review sites, ...
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FLOSS licensing: should I force copyleft notice in footer?
I'm developing a fairly large web-application with a public-facing JSON REST API, mobile apps for every platform (using AngularJS with Apache Cordova) and specialised e-commerce configurable by users.
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Legalities of company rating system
I'm thinking about starting work on a system that allows companies that have previously done business together to essentially rate their experience. Allowing other users to see if their potential ...
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Does a visible sales tracking board have a positive effect on the sales team?
We are considering tracking sales in our business and within the company publicly displaying the performance of the team and each member.
What are good ways to implement this and is such a strategy ...
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Terms and Conditions for a Meetup.com-style network?
I am about to open up registrations to my open-source meetup.com alternative, but am worried about the legal side.
What sort of things should I put in the Terms and Conditions, and do I need them to ...
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What's the simplest way to calculate my tax burden?
I'm looking at starting an online game, with revenue coming in through the purchase of in-game bonuses. I've got a team of four people, counting myself, working on setting it up, and it should be ...
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Collaborating with virtual marketing teams?
I understand there are a LOT of project management tools out there. But they all seem to be focused on development teams. Now my startup will include a distributed marketing team, so i would like to ...
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What specific metrics should I collect as I'm monitoring an early stage web startup?
I'm looking to measure performance of a web-service, and collect meaningful information. What metrics should I be looking for, in order to measure how well the startup is doing?
What have you used in ...
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Sales Commission website with Geolocation?
I'm looking for a Customer Relationship Management solution with an easy to use interface.
The simplest way to describe what I'm looking for is through a [very rough!] mockup:
The idea is that the ...
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Backend software for - pre-sales, sales, offline bookings cycle [closed]
I'm helping a friend out who is starting up a business providing bookings in independently-owned serviced apartments (in Cambodia) and I'm trying to find out what software (open source or otherwise) ...
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How to start a web development/design business without appearing too “corporate”?
These days, I've noticed that a lot of the one man (woman) shops all try to appear larger than life, i.e. go for a corporate look. I find that given how Social Media has progressed, this isn't a very ...
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Fulfilment services?
I have started an online business and was considering using a fulfilment service but all the providers seem to be to expensive for my needs. The majority of the products we sell weigh less than 2g ...
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Writing a Company Profile for a early stage startup?
Some key aspects include:
1] Writing the product desciption (obvious).
2] Describing unique features of the product.
3] Adding some personality to writing.
4] Describing use cases for the product.
5] ...
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Are future earnings always about your reputation
Are future earnings always about your reputation. To get my start-up up and running I will need to short-circuit a relationship I believe is flawed.
This basically means cutting out a middle man and ...
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Is it practical to start a small business while still employed
I have a business idea and would like to start up my own company (providing solutions to theme parks). I could write the software in my own time however im worried starting a business whilst still ...
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What should be the typical starting amount for an Adwords campaign?
We are looking to start an Adwords campaign for our startup. We are keen to know what levels of spend people started at and what responses they found to be typical. for reference this is a service ...
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Is there a video conference app that will allow you to share screens? [closed]
Is there a video conference app(preferably an iPad app) that would allow two people to view the same screen. For example, revising a slide or browsing while chatting and collaborating.
Ivisit do it ...
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What is better, apply early to accelerator programs, as a single founder, or wait until I have a team?
I am in a conundrum. Accelerator programs such as YCombinator and TechStars advise entrepreneurs to apply as early as possible for additional consideration. However they stress out that they are ...
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How do you make people start searching with your keyword phrase?
I have found a good keyword phrase to target, however, there is no global or local search for it. How do I make a user start typing my keyword phrase, which is almost at zero according to the Google ...
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How do you get data on prices and deal offers from local merchants?
What the best way and economical to get updates about the prices and offers from local dealers?
I want to cover 58 areas local dealers/retailers from my city.
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Where to find designers / programmers for equity
Investors want to see the finished project (+ maybe private beta results).
I came a long way, but I have the feeling that I cant run the last couple of miles without being surpassed by competition.
I ...
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Good ecommerce website for small transactions? [closed]
I want to sell some software online for about $10-15 per unit, probably very few units will be sold initially. Does anybody know any good ecommerce website for this kind of small and infrequent ...
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Comunications Skills
I have technical background and founder of software startup. Now, I started learning the importance of Communications Skills in demos and meeting with prospective clients.
Any books or courses ...
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Good startups resources on Europe? [closed]
I'm looking to expand my network in Europe. I have a good set of US-based sources that enable me to stay updated and in the loop about startups, funding and the sort of things I'm interested in as a ...
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Unsuccessful job posting, what did I do wrong? What should I focus on?
First, it is not my intent to abuse the Q&A forum to hire people, I'm asking about what I've done wrong. I've removed my company name, details, and industry from the posting below.
I'm a new ...
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How to get permission/integrate with ERP legally?
I created my own product(P) which is pretty much standalone but would benefit a LOT if it integrates with existing ERP package(ERP). Integration can be done 2 ways:
read only where I pull data from ...
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How to build a productive websites sites like elance, vworker and other?
If I want to get a website build like elance where companies and users post their jobs looking for online bidders.How easy/tough it is going to be considering that its not any new idea.OR is it a very ...
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Anyone recommend a startup-friendly PR firm? [closed]
I'm looking for a a recommendation for a startup-friendly PR firm. Anyone have a firm they'd recommend?
I see this question but there aren't any recent answers to the question. Anyone have any new ...
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Business plan with failure scenarios
I am helping a friend with some short to medium term scenarios/ projections for a business plan. I worked out some failure scenarios as in if the business folds in 6 months we will be able to salvage ...
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What do you do when you have an idea _and_ money but no expertise or experience creating a technical product?
I know that seems like a "how do I cope with my spoil of riches?" type question and I apologize in advance for being the type of amateur class that for all I know has a popular tumblr blog dedicated ...
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Determining Feasability of Information Product
Having just been recently laid off, I would like to give some attention to an idea that's been incubating in my mind for a while for an information-based product. This is similar to the model of ...
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What is the best way to get commissions from transactions on my web site
I am thinking building web application where buyers and sellers could meet and buy/sell items/service. (There wont be any item to sell butthey will pay for service )
But i dont know how to get ...
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Sales pipelines. Should you only have 1 in a B2B software development company?
So you understand our scope: We are a custom software development company who have 2 primary markets
Mid sized companies who have ongoing internal needs for automation
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In this tough economy, what is the single best trick to survive or even thrive as a small business startup?
After all this time, it is still pretty tough to be a small business startup nowadays, but I know there are people out there who have not only survived, but are flourishing! If you had to pick one ...
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planning a full scale web application
I've been wanting to build a full scale CMS application that will target certain career workflows but the obstacle that has been in my path is that I would need to sit down and fully learn the career ...
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How do you fighting back against internet “Protection Scams”?
First this happened to a client -- and now it has happened in a slightly different configuration to me. We have become victims of a classic protection scam.
You know -- the hire us to keep bad ...
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Our site sells an expensive product most people only buy once. How do we encourage word of mouth promotion?
Our start-up will sell engagement rings online. We recently discovered that a major source of traffic for the market leader is word of mouth recommendations.
We know that great customer service, and ...
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How to monetize established educational site with high volume traffic, good organic content, and high rankings
I have a website over 10 years old with over 300 pp of good organic content (all written by me), and have never advertised before. It's been up as an educational site, but I would now like to monetize ...
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Will people still use my app if I have an alternative spelling for my domain name?
abcTech.com is already taken and I'm thinking about registering abcTek.com. Sites like de.lic.io.us (I don't even know where to put the dots) still succeeded despite their horrible names (or maybe ...
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Entrepreneurs Ego clash with power game
We are a 7-month old startup, founded by three entrepreneurs with different backgrounds. We do not have any clients yet, but the product is ready and we are already in talks with four clients. One ...
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How do you organize your ideas and actions when starting something up?
I'm curious about how you guys organize your ideas for starting up a new business. I have a bunch of ideas that I never tried to implement, basically because I just don't know from where I could ...
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How to introduce a new service to a conservative target?
We have a shop that sells to resellers. So far, we get the orders by phone calls or faxes. I have been tuning a website that will allow resellers to do all those common tasks online, plus some extra ...
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What is the most effective way to market a Local Small Business?
We have successfully launched a small business providing services locally in a couple cities. Uptake of new clients has been slow and we want to spend some of our (limited!) cash to market the ...
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freelancers.com ,elance etc ask for portfolio web related
My basic idea here is for starting a software company
Well the people giving projects at freelancers and such sites basically ask for a portfolio, i have been in this field professionally for about ...
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How to startup an expensive idea?
Ok, so I've got (yet another) idea for a startup, which I think is pretty good. The innovative and most expensive part of it might just not be possible but the project could fallback to a good ...
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Is it legal using virtual currency in a swapping stuff website?
The site www.listia.com uses credits as a way to buy goods through auctions. These credits are not real money with the exception that you can buy more credits with real money if you desperately want ...
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Suggestions on sites for critiquing websites
I am looking for sites which enable users to give feedback or critiques on any sites for free.
Or for site owners to solicit feedback on their sites for site design and usability? Should not be fee ...
