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When to drop a co-founder?
There are some excellent posts on how to select a co-founder and what qualities you should look for. I firmly believe in 'try it out', and have been for about 5 months. In that time I've also come ...
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Distributed team in a startup
Is it a viable idea to start a business without office space and relying on the possibility for employees to work from home?
What should be considered as main factors a distributed team to be ...
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How to reward early employees?
In many startups there are some #1 or #2 employees who helped the whole business all the way.
I've got couple guys like that, I'd love to give them more than the salary (even though our salaries are ...
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Creating camaraderie among people who never see each other
I have a team of people scattered across time zones and the world. Most of these people have never been face-to-face with even one of their colleagues. Most have never heard anyone else's voice. We ...
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Does it make sense for a SaaS company to also do consulting work?
As a SaaS company we have an entire team in place to do web and application development. Effectively, we have one client: ourselves. Would it make sense for us to take on consulting clients as an ...
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Should we add “About -> The Team” when our company is only 5 people?
It's widespread among (mostly web development) non-huge companies to add a page about the team members of their company, like SE's Team page here, where they have separate page for their team, or ...
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Building an “A-Team” — How do I Build a Team I can trust from those I don't know?
[Multi-part question with similar introduction because I thought the questions would be more useful separately.]
Hi all,
I'm currently a one-man dev team with what I believe is a killer idea. I've ...
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At what point should we apply to an incubator?
General Question:
Given that incubators are focused on early-stage companies, how far along should a startup be before it applies for consideration by an incubator? How strong must the team (and ...
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How do you hire your first people to your startup?
I really wonder how do you hire your first employees if you were working on an internet startup alone. I really wonder if there are experienced people which started their startup alone and expand it. ...
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How to build a founding team
I am working on a startup idea, and currently I am taking it solo. I would very much like to have 1-2 other people to work on it with me. I am a programmer, and I would like a 2nd programmer, and ...
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Where is a good place to meet coders?
I am not a coder. I know basic coding and some web design, enough to have come up with what i believe to be an interesting idea for a start up. I can design the website and software myself, but cannot ...
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Software Idea but Non IT background
I am an entreprenuer, who has always been keen on IT, but having no background of programming. I have several ideas which i would like to implement one at a time. These involve combination of Mobile / ...
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How do you make decisions in teams?
My [business] partner and I are constantly arguing about how we should do certain things for the SaaS we are creating and we reach a conclusion and a good decision (i think) after hours of aruging and ...
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Amount of time needed to allot to CEO responsibilities
Interesting story.
I'm 15 years old. Im planning on launching a start up. Now obviously, there are concerns that I have, not necessarily about the performance of future employees, but my performance. ...
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Splitting up revenue among development team members on Apple's app store
A friend and I have started developing an app to put on Apple's app store. Development is going fine, but thinking ahead, we're trying to come up with an easy way to share any revenue coming from our ...
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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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Do investors require a mangement team? What if there isn't one?
From an investor point of view, the cliche is "investor prefers type A management team with a type B product rather than the reverse".
A startup cannot afford CFO, CEO. Founder has to roll up the ...
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Project In A Week / development bootcamp
Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice?
The idea behind it is to get away from the ...
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Dealing with uncooperative co-founders
Just Started a business with some co-founders.
How do I set up a system so that:
When a co-founder is unwilling to work/cooperate with the rest of the team
He/she is removed
Thanks
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Proper team for a startup when there is little funding and a non founder
I want to launch a social networking site but I need a proper team to do it, but who are the key players to have it launched when there is little funding. I am the idea person and not a tech person - ...
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How to answer “How Did You and Your Cofounders Meet?”
At tech events and when talking with investors I'm often asked where myself and my cofounder know each other from.
Beyond the obvious, what kind of information are people looking get a better sense ...
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Price, cost, profit, on-demand software by enterprise to “us”
we are 2 developers that have been working for a consultancy doing a mobile app for about a year, now we are ending our contracts. The enterprise that has contracted our actual/anterior ...
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When a startup should hire a sys admin?
The startup is growing and you have now 5 full-time devs on your team. You have an older application which is up and running in production and a new web application almost ready to be released. You ...
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How to share income of selling iPhone apps with a friend/partner
I plan to develop an iPhone app with my friend. Each of us is specialized in different parts of the app. For example, I am responsible for interface design and server-side programming while my friend ...
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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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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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How to share equity among early investors, CEO and product developers in a technology startup
We are planning for a software startup and following is our setup.
There are 4 people who came up with idea. But these people can NOT code and build a product.
These 4 people are also going to ...
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Is it necessary to have a Co-founder and team and then go to VC
I have single-handedly written all code needed for an alpha/beta till date.
Now i want to go beta and hire marketing professionals and a developer.
For that i need money and VC funds.
Shall i look ...
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Build the team of a start up software business working on contract projects?
What is a popular way to build the team of a start up software business that takes on contract work from other companies?
Additional info
I founded a small company with a team of web+mobile software ...
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Startup Equity Distribution / Investor Equity
Thanks for taking time to read my post and sorry for the loaded questions -- please read patiently to help me. Here is the scenario:
Founder has the startup idea vetted 3.5 years ago -- but never ...
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Putting together a team for a web startup
I have an idea for a business which I want to pursue. This includes a concept, a target market and directions for growth and development. Whilst I intend to project manage, I have spoken to someone ...
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How to hire /recruit online for an online based company?
Specifically
•How did you find them? (craigslist-social networks-newspaper ads- etc)
•How did your interview them? (Phone/Skype video chat etc)
•How did you get passed the skepticism barrier? ...
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How much equity should an active investor get in an early stage of a startup?
I'm the only executive, I have 100% of the shares, I have 4 employees.I built the prototype on my own and I'm almost launching.
This person has intense experience in tech but not as an investor. ...
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How to force people state whether they will really contribute/work to a business
I am about creating a spin-off from University. I will quit my job later even. I talked with all my colleagues and they like the idea and support it. My experience with them in academic projects is ...
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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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Can/Do different departments work together?
Or are they isolated, where developers keep to themselves and sales people keep to themselves?
Is there a need for developers to even collaborate with sales or marketing people, for example? Im asking ...
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How to find a good team member online?
So, I started working on a project, and I have a shortage of good team members. The project is kind of secret and I would not like to share details about the project.
I could advertise on the web ...
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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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research resources for starting a sports team/franchise
I'm thinking of starting up a minor sports team in the world of e-sports and I'd like to model it after the more well-known models in hockey and football.
I've tried going to the official websites ...
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Employee Payment - From an Investor's Prospective
In the development stage of launching a start up. I am initially outsourcing the development as I am not located in a place where there is an abundance of programmers. The dev timeline is 6 weeks. ...
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Traction & Team Building… With Program Yet Uncompleted
To-date I'm self funding a new start-up. I've hired two programmers who have helped me get the web-based program to about 85% completion. At this point due to unexpected financial obligations on the ...
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Where to find enthusiasts to collaborate on startup development? [closed]
We're the team of 4 guys from Europe. Recently launched a startup and are on the way of development, but want to improve the speed of building up a successful startup. Hence, we're looking for ...
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Have launched a royalty free music & audio stock library. Looking for enthusiasts for collaboration [closed]
We've recently launched a marketplace of Royalty-free Stock Music and Audio:
Have got quite a good selection of music, sounds and sound effects of 8,000 items available for instant licensing and ...
