Software is a set of computer programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation.
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How to minimize risk of software copyright infringement claims
I had a software developer create a software program, which I copyrighted and then assigned to a software company (and LLC) that I co-founded. I plan to sell the program to the general public.
Then ...
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Approach competitor before marketing new software program?
I set up a company and had a software developer create a new software program for the company. I thought that the idea for the software was novel, and before developing the software, I did some ...
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What's the most efficient and cost-effective way to become PCI compliant?
I'm working on a business-to-business web app.
About a year ago we gave our users the ability to charge credit cards (from customers calling them over the phone) directly within our software system.
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Suggest web app for managing small business
I'm looking for a web app with CRM, ERP and simple accounting features to run a small software shop.
Will be very grateful if someone could help me out with this.
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How to start a software company?
I have an idea in my mind, for this idea I want to invest more time and money in making it a fully developed product.
So far, whatever small software products I have created are for a small niche and ...
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Creating a Business for Side Programming
I'm an Android developer that has made money over some of the apps I've created in the past year. I have no corporate filing so I am currently considered a sole proprietor in the state of Florida. I ...
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Widgets for feedback
I have embedded forum software into our website using Yet Another Forum (ASP.NET plugin which you can see on our site at http://labslice.com/Forum/). It works just fine, but obviously needs a bit of ...
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Income estimation
I'm developing a product for creating software installers. Initially this was a hobby project; just prove to myself that I can acheive my technical goals writing this product. The product is available ...
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What is the best invoicing tool you have discovered? [closed]
We're running an online store of electronic devices, and we need to start creating invoices for our clients.
What is the best invoicing tool you have discovered?
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What is needed to digitally sell and distribute software (videogames) to the US?
I'm currently developing a game with a few friends and have plans to sell it and distribute it worldwide via digital means. I'd like to know what I should take into consideration if I want to sell the ...
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How to organize a multi-national startup, with distributed work between its members, located in different parts of the world?
How to organize a startup, which contains different people from different parts of the world with no common office? Where to register it? How to deal with taxes? Which legal issues could arise?
For ...
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How to spread the word about software updates these days?
I am a MISV veteran but have to admit that I feel a little bit lost in the media space these days:
The editors of major computer related media seem to be fully occupied with ventilating Apple, ...
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Business models for a software component
My company has developed a .DLL, meaning a software component, which needs to be a part of software to have value. This software component can be useful in a range of applications in everything from ...
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Giving away a free copy of software to entice people to leave their email
I've just been reading a book by Rob Walling titled "Start Small, Stay Small" and I came across an interesting idea (one of many he has in the book). I wondered what people on here thought.
My ...
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How to market web based beauty salon management software in UK?
I'm looking for new ways to market our product, a web based software targeted primarily at spas, hair & beauty salons (and could be used by dentists or other small appointment-based businesses) in ...
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How many paid users during, near and after the trial period
I just started selling my software and I wanted to know what is your average percentage of paid subscribers for each week during/after a 30 day trial period.
Example: For 100 users who have paid for ...
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How much should we charge for an IT job?
The scenario
We just got our very first medium/large size client.
They are opening a new company which operates around a web application that will be entirely developed and maintained by us.
We ...
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Business model for a White-labelled service
I've been asked by a client to create a White-label service similar to an existing product I have. The service will have the client's logo on it. The customers they bring to the service wouldn't be ...
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Will you pay to watch Software Conference Webcast?
I attended Internet Summit at Raleigh, NC for last two days and there were 1400 people there. I wondered how many more will be out there who wanted to attend but could not, for whatever reason.
How ...
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Pros and cons of FatFreeCRM?
What are the pros and cons of using FatFreeCRM?
It appears to be a lightweight, open-source CRM package.
What important features in other CRM packages is it lacking?
How difficult is it to migrate ...
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Do I need to pay for a commercial licence?
I'm working on a software application in a large company as consultant. I use a library released as Dual License Model (AGPL v3 and Commercial).
Do I need to purchase a commercial license to use the ...
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Looking for uncompleted software projects
I have a bit of spare time at the moment and was thinking of starting a new project or picking up someone else's uncompleted project.
In relation to the latter, is there a marketplace for this ...
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Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics or some kind of CRM
We're a small company of 4-6 developers/designers. We have bizspark so we get free software. Now I see Microsoft Dynamics CRM available to us and from what I understand, it helps us with customer ...
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Start-up IP dispute in Canadian Corp
I'm currently in an intellectual property dispute over software I developed in a new start-up (Canadian corp). It was written under the false pretense that I would have 25% ownership of the company, ...
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Is building a web appliation from scratch cost-effective?
I am trying to find the most cost effective approach to building a web application based in PHP. I want to know if using a PHP Framework such as, Social Engine would be best to avoid having to avoid ...
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Online marketing software?
I know little (okay, nothing) in marketing... I have the checklist from Bob Walsh (of 47 hats) as to what steps to take next with respect to targeting my prospective clientele and building out a ...
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Mention of LGPL/MIT source code in a commercial software
My commercial software is using some code source licensed under LGPL or MIT.
How and where should I mention this?
Is it mandatory?
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Are affiliation networks too expensive for startups?
Should we build our own network of affiliates instead of using software such as zferral?
If yes, what are the best value for money affiliation softwares?
If not, what are the best value for money ...
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How big software companies get projects?
When a big business tycoon opens a software companies, they get projects of millions of dollars, and the company is always flooded with projects. While if it is a startup that initiates from a room, ...
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What do you use/do to stay in touch with business partners that are in a different geographical location?
I'm looking for a good way to stay in touch with the hosts of my Momtrepreneur Exchanges around the country. There's a host in each of our 23 cities so far. It's a pile of people in different time ...
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An idea to implement R&D in a software services startup
I have seen that working in a fledgling software services firm as a programmer entails a lot (in fact, all) of the time being spent working on meeting client specs and requirements on their software ...
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What does it mean to 'Tell a Story'?
What exactly do these startup mentors mean when they say 'Tell a good story'?
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Why are so few commercial products (sold, downloadable software) built on ruby on rails?
Is there a reason why there are so few commercial products that are build using Ruby on Rails?
Is there market so small where it doesn't make sense?
Is deployment an issue?
Update
I'm referring to ...
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How did Magento create an commercial Enterprise version when magento is open source?
It's interesting how an open source product has a commercial version, nice business strategy to get market penetration!
How did Magento create an commercial Enterprise version when magento is open ...
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ecommerce and pci pa-dss, is it legal to sell/distribute with out it? many o/s carts are not certified
There are many open source shopping carts that don't have any PCI compliance certification.
Is it legal to sell/distribute ecommerce related software that isn't compliant?
It makes no sense, since ...
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I am setting up a European Branch/Subsidary of a US based Software company. What is the best way to go for this?
Is anybody able to give some advice on:
How would I go about setting up a European branch/subsidiary of this company?
CHOICE OF ENTITY: Should I register as a branch or subsidiary?
LOCATION: What is ...
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How do I convince a client to use a computerised accounting system?
This is marketing question but don't know where to ask it.
My possible client is relying in traditional manual accounting system. I want to convince him to use acomputerised accounting system.
As an ...
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Keeping track of shares, options, etc in a corporation?
What software is available to keep track of who owns what shares and stock options once I incorporate?
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Fair equity/profit split when taking on a partner?
I am about to take on a partner to develop a software prototype I built almost a year ago and I need some guidance on deciding equity/profit split.
I know out of past experience that I cannot ...
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Have you had any good experiences with training software?
There is a sea of training software out there. Many don't have open demos. I'm trying to avoid sales pitches from dozens of companies to demo their software. I'm looking for a good lead or two from ...
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Is it legal to market a tool to help individual to download Flash video?
I usually have the requirement to download some flash video to local disk and then look it because my bandwidth is too limited to make a fluid playing. So, I made up a software tool to achieve this ...
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Do I need a business partner?
My first post here, finally decided to stop reading and start asking :)
Apologies for being long-winded, but want to make sure I explain myself.
I'm a tech-guy myself, have been ...
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CMS for online magazine startup?
I want to start an online magazine website and I'd like to know what platform to use.
Something like Wordpress, Drupal, and other CMS systems, any recommendations?
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How to launch software: Hollywood launch or Gmail approach?
As far as I know, there are two recognized way to launch Software:
Hollywood launch
1) Teaser
2) Preview
3) Launch
Gmail Approach
1) Few invites
2) Beta
3) Buzz and Marketing
4) Public
From your ...
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How do you protect your code from a freelancer?
I want to hire a freelancer to fix some bugs on my startup code. How can I protect the code from being stolen?
Thanks
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Scaling sales in a SaaS software company
We are a small software company in the Virtual Data sharing and management space. We are looking to scale our buisness quickly and believe our next step would be into the software reseller channel. ...
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Software development team troubleshooter/auditor. What do you think?
I have an idea for a business and would like some feedback.
The other day I was thinking about software development teams and how they function, the things they do right and the things they do wrong. ...
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Advice to become a technical founder
My aspiration in life is to become a entrepreneur and because of my background (4 years as a software developer) I figure I would go best if I start out as a technical founder at a start up.
I guess ...
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Selling through VARs and Systems Integrators
We're developing an extension to a commercial open source enterprise software product. Most customers of the product we're extending buy it trough one of its system integration partners.
To reach ...
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Getting customers for a startup IT Services Company?
I just started an IT Services company here in Chennai, India. I would like to know the different ways in which I can get clients so that I can grow my company. I have not yet started the recruitment, ...
