Software is a set of computer programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation.
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Business equity [closed]
The last few months at my company have made me worried. I work for a small software development company, there were 5 of us: 2 techy's, 2 developers and my boss. 1 tech left leaving me to cover her ...
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Speech Recognition Software Development [closed]
I was thinking of launching a speech recognition software that would be directly installed on some websites. The problem is that it is difficult to find relevant information regarding the cost to ...
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Appropriate equity for marketing / development work?
Looking for a little guidance on an equity offer for a project I'm involved in.
I was approached six months ago by a founder-developer who has written software to accomplish an idea originated by a ...
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How to be a resource and asset to new start up software development in E-commerce? [closed]
Looking to be a resource and asset to new start up software development in E-commerce (online finance) / I have API for automated invoicing / registration / custom gateway / mobile etc... I think of ...
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Selling products online in the US from India
My Business is to have an to sell products online (online store). My business name has just been approved and I have also purchased the company desired domain. I am in the process of taking my first ...
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How to do marketing research in Finance related software?
I am a software developer in Canada. 2 years ago, a close friend referred me a business owner who is running Futures trading firm(12+ employees) in Chicago. He need some system to help them manage ...
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Should I use WebsiteSpark or BizSpark with my startup?
I am starting up a new company with 3 others which is going to be a software/web company. I have already started on writing the software in C# 4.0, as I have a VS 2010 license, but my other partners ...
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Approached About Partnership
I am a software developer and for the past 4-5 years I've worked part-time on an application related to fantasy sports. I enjoy toying with the marketing side of things but I focus mainly on writing ...
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Fairly Sharing Proprietorship of Software Product
I am currently working as a Software Developer with a company. As well, I provide solutions also to some clients part time. Recently I got an inquiry for a software product. I believe that the product ...
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Equity distribution software SaaS spin-off
I have been working in a consulting agency for a couple of years. Besides my standard job responsibilities, I was accountable for the technology. Some years ago we developed a software, for internal ...
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Sale commission for someone who brings a big fish (SaaS model)
I was wondering what is a reasonable/fare commission for someone (call him an agent) who can introduce us to a potential big client. I estimate the client can generate at minimum 400K-600K a year for ...
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Equity in a business driven by software?
I am completely new to negotiating equity, and I don't know where I stand with regards to pushing back on potential offers of equity based on a new project.
If anybody could give me their view on my ...
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Should I show a prototype to BigCompany? How can I encourage them to buy me out?
I have a software prototype that integrates with a product from BigCompany (like really, really big). I predict it would take 6 more months to polish it so that it's of commercial quality. But I'm ...
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How To Protect My Unpatentable Simple-But-Effective Product Against BigCompany
I have a simple idea (I think it is not patentable) that I have turned it into an effective software. It need some more effort to make it commercial. By the way I am not unwilling to sell it to THE ...
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Software Contributions to a LLC Partnership
I have a 33.33% stake in an LLC partnership, which was made with cash contributions. I have since developed software with an associate who is not part of the company that we would like to sell as ...
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Setting up a subsidiary of an Italian software house in the UK
I am currently researching the opportunity to open a foreign subsidiary of my software house in the UK. I am interested in a few issues:
Accounting help: Do I need to hire an accountant? Approximate ...
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Software for a “registered users self service” backend [closed]
Do you know any server-side software package for "registered users self service" / "service portal" backends?
Background: software shops (software developers) need a web interface where customers can ...
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Thoughts on offering Software development in return for Equity for a tech startup
I have been developing some software for an online venture in return for significant equity. I am working with another founder who is developing the business. The current thinking is to value our ...
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Explaining my software license to customers/users
My software comes with the standard Apache 2.0 License which covers our bases pretty well while providing flexibility for us and our customers to use/modify the software to their needs.
I have found ...
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How to find developers for a startup with next separation of the business?
I'm a software developer and I have made the first alpha version of my service. And now I need more human resources to make something significant.
I need people which will work for free yet. And then ...
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Licensing a compiler which outputs code of a pre-existing programming language
This is a cross-post from stackoverflow; I was told you guys might be more knowlegable in this area...
I have an idea for a project which, ideally, I would like to eventually make money from.
...
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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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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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Best way to commercialize a software
My associates and I own a services business. To improve efficiency we started to developed own software two years ago. The software we developed seems to be very effective and time-saving for us and ...
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software development project leads and sub-sourcing [closed]
We are just starting up and are into microsoft based software development services running from India. we are looking for some US/UK/Europe based software development firms which can ...
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Dealing with Free and Lite Version of Competitors
We are new to the software field and have been launched ~4 months = 8 sales so far.The conversion rate is 0.5 %.Product is priced around $25-$30
We are in a market with lot of competition,in fact the ...
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software / digital signage start-up early stages
In the early stages of a start-up, my key market is digital signage, a hardware development kit I use requires signing an NDA to receive the SDK, as stated in the early stages of the start-up.
Do I ...
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How to simplify my quickbooks items list
I am using Quickbooks to handle invoicing, purchasing, sales, etc. and so, to facilitate all these processes, I have an 'Items' list; I know, pretty standard stuff, right? Well, here's my problem, ...
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What do tech startups look for in potential employees? [closed]
I'm a computer science student at Bristol University in the UK, and I'm looking to work for a startup when I graduate, as I have always had a strong interest in business and feel working for a startup ...
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How to license closed source free-ware application for distribution to the public?
I have created a small application/tool, and I would like to release it to the public under those conditions:
It is free. (donations are welcome)
It is closed source.
In the future, I might create a ...
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Deciding between a web app and desktop software for an academic tool
I want to develop a tool which makes it easy for teachers and professors to write tests: multiple version, multiple choice, long answer, scantron, the whole works. The question is, would I be better ...
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Starting relationships for offshore software company
I'm a software developer from Argentina looking to start a long lasting trust relationship with software entrepeneurs for providing high quality offshore development/programming services. Does anyone ...
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How do I ask help and search people for contribution for my git/open source project
I am basically involved in wordpress site development but a self starter for rails. I want to transform my idea into a rail app and I am contributing it on git(at a very initial level this time), but ...
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Finding a client for software development outsourcing project
I have led an established IT-company in Ukraine for several years now. The company's business is in the different fields, including an outsourced software development. Currently I realize that I am ...
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How to outsource a software development process?
We are having a good idea for a software product. Since its complexity surpasses the capacities for a one man army or perhaps of a small software team, it will be necessary to outsource software ...
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Contract employee and IP in a not so related business
If I create an application for a client and I am employed as a contactor to the client by a contracting firm in a different capacity, who owns the copyright?
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Where should I promote this product?
I built a tool for myself and some relatives. It's a windows keyboard tool that allows someone to instantly type accent marks, other diacritics and often used special characters. No key combinations ...
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CRM with email integration and useful views for support?
We're not really a startup, but we're still a small (9 employees + 1 part time sales), growing company and we finally need some CRM software.
Our Owner has been using and loving MS's Business Contact ...
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Does expensive software need trial download?
I have the following situation:
My product is enterprise software and costs 50k.
We don´t want our competitors getting their hands on it, so we dont offer a downloadable trial.
A potential client ...
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What are the costs and tax implications of hiring an independent contractor?
Our company is currently thinking about hiring an independent contractor to expand our software product.
I was wondering what the costs (insurance etc...) and tax implications of this might be if ...
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Getting projects for a software development company
We have formed our company (that is, incorporation is in progress) this November (2012).
Our company focuses on IT service management (ITSM) solutions and have very skilled professionals in the ITSM ...
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What Are My Restrictions With “Non-commercial Use” Software?
Basically I want to start a company. I realize you cannot use this software for commercial purposes; hence the name. Basically I have lots of "Non-commercial" software installed on my main computer.
...
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How can fewer features be better?
Just today I started to get interested in this field and I've started with Getting Real. I kept seeing answers here that recommend it and it also seems trustworthy.
However, one thing I don't get is ...
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Choosing between complex or simple business ideas
Having spent the last 2 years plotting business ideas and dreaming of the day I would resign I have finally given notice and am preparing to begin pursuing my dreams.
However I have reached an ...
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Is an open source prototype a bad idea?
I'm building a prototype for a web/mobile application. The goal is to collect user generated content, let user rate it while at the same time being entertained and do something interesting with it. If ...
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Should we be turning down software resellers?
We get emailed nearly daily from various software reselling companies around the world. They generally enquire as to the cost of 1 - 5 units of our software, and we generally turn down these requests ...
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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
I have come up with an idea for a new social networking application. It's not something I expect to be hugely successful, but I think it does have some potential. I've approached a few close friends ...
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How to promote Education Management software in India [closed]
I have designed and developed Education Management software. How can I promote a Education Management software product?
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Should The Income Of Programmers With Different Experience be the same In TeamWork
I want to begin to write a Software with my 2 other friends.I worked hard on c# for 4 years and they worked on it approximately for 1 year.Now One Of them got this project and want to make it with ...
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Hiring a development company
Imagine that I want to launch my web site or other product in six months. It's too much work for one person - perhaps it will need four to eight people. Let's also imagine that I have a good but not ...
