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Are there any Open Source Digital Signature Solutions that would Comply with Various US Regulations?
We are interested in using digital signature in our extremely paper intensive world. However, we need the signatures to be valid digital signatures. Are there open source solutions available that ...
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Why would OKCupid write their own web server?
OKCupid wrote their own web server. Isn't the technology stack basically a commodity at this point? They serve a lot of people and want to be fast, but there are very large companies that use MSFT ...
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Fair stake for a technical strategist?
First time posting to this Q&A so please be kind!
I and a partner are looking to build a web community. However, my partner and I are both business folks. We understand to build a successful ...
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What's the most compact solution for a new website with split testing?
I meet a lot of wantrepreneurs who are very smart but not at all into the plumbing of websites. They totally get concepts such as minimum viable product and split testing, and they want to be hands-on ...
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Business Card & Personal Details
I'm a 15 trying to start a small tech support service for family computers with my friend and I've started designing the business card. I've put my mobile number and feel its my obligation to tell ...
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Equities for co founder developer employee
I have been employed in a small web agency for about 2 years now and I'm a tech guy. About 6 months ago one of the project managers started talking to me about an idea and suddenly(with the support of ...
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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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Outsourcing “product development” for Tech startups
what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing "product development" eg new social media website project?
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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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Did you use the technology your former employer use?
All,
I am wondering whether there are tendency for someone to build a startup using the technology their former employer use. So do you use the technology your former employer use or some other ...
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Screencasting - camtasia, IshowU, others?
I have a new site and I need to make a quick video tutorial for new users.
The debate in the past has seemed to revolve around using either Camtasia or IshowU. But which one do I go with? Camtasia ...
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Investors for aquaculture company
Any ideas on where to look for investors in an green aquaculture company? The company will have signficant revenues in year 2 in a $5B market growing at 15%/year. Are there funds for start-up food ...
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Platform / Language question for Photo site with mobile support
This is a newbie question :-) Wasn't sure if StackOverflow or one of its sister sites would be a better place to ask, but thought I'd go ahead anyway here first.
A friend and I are toying around with ...
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Is there any video editing software available for a PC that is as easy to use and robust as iMovie?
In an effort to avoid spending $999+ on a Mac, I am looking for a PC equivalent of iMovie. I spent a few hours on a friends Mac and found iMovie (2009) extremely easy to use with a really professional ...
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How does one create a startup without any seed funds and developers/coders?
Ok there is a startup idea in place; Not a big thing!
Even the plan is 99% on paper; Considerably not bad!
Two fellows have shown faith in the plans and agreed to partner; good considering team is ...
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How can I find someone who is well versed and can consult on all of the technologies available today for building a SaaS project?
I am working with a User Experience/Information Architecture professional who is not a techie. We are at a point where we need to make some decisions that will be based on the specific programming ...
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Framework for a question/answer site
Is there a framework which lets me create a Question/Answer site like this one on which I have created this question ?
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What kind of timelines have you experienced delivering software
Was curious to hear about other peoples experiences regarding getting software to a point where its ready for a paying customer. My personal experience regardless of the venture or technology stack, ...
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When to target a new platform?
I tend not to treat new platforms as serious or viable business opportunities.
My reasoning goes like this...
Selling $1 apps in the crowded IPhone app store - unlikely to be any ROI there...
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Do startups fail because of poor technology?
Plenty of startups fail because they don't get traction in the market, their market didn't exist, or they get elbowed out by competition.
But does it happen that startups fail because their ...
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Keeping current with new technology and applications
What sites, blogs, etc do you use to keep up with new business technologies and applications that do not market by traditional methods? I am non-technical and realized there is so much out there. If I ...
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Pointers to pick up challenging startup work
Can you please provide me pointers to websites where i can pick up some real challenging work and contribute?
Regards,
Siddharth
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Looking for .NET CMS [closed]
I'm looking for .NET content management system.
I've done some research and found a lot of software (like Telerik's Sitefinity or DotNetNuke), but I don't want to make wrong decision. Please advice.
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View and Markup Options?
Greetings,
I am looking for options on reasonably priced (or free / open source) view and markup software that can be integrated into an existing web based, product development software. I know this ...
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What is the best web site chat provider to use? [closed]
I want to add a chat capability to my web site. Wondering recommendations from folks. Looking for something relatively inexpensive and relatively easy to implement but want it to be functional.
It ...
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Why do companies acquire other companies?
Why is it hard for companies to learn and replicate the features of a company rather than acquiring it. All the source code including the technologies and framework used are visible to anyone.
For ...
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MySql scalability [closed]
Can anyone point me to any data that shows validates the scalability promises of the MySql database ? Specifically I am looking for real life examples of applications running MySql server and handling ...
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How to help businesses see that a new technology may help solve problems for them
In my town there appears to be no business using a technology called functional programming. Microsoft is including a new language for this in their next version of Visual Studio.
I am thinking about ...
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Marketing clean technology
How does one convince customers to spend more money for the environment?
Following the inconvenient truth, global warming and raising oil prices last year, it seems that developing clean green ...
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How can I determine potential market demand?
I would like to determine the potential market demand for a non-software, travel product that requires significant up-front capital for manufacturing.
What open source software, if any, would you ...
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Making money from Improving existing products
If I come up with an improvement to an existing product, how do I protect myself when sharing it, and get some of the revenues the idea generates?
There are many times when I look at an existing ...
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Tips for running a virtual office
Having a virtual company empowers you to hire talent anywhere in the world and manage a team of employees using the wonders of modern technology. I have personally worked this way since January and ...
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Scaling up from 1 Web Server + 1 DB Server
We are Web 2.0 company that built a hosted Content Management solution from the ground up using LAMP. In short, people log into our backend to manage their website content and then use our API to ...
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Would you (Java Developer) learn PHP? if management decided opensource (PHP) projects could fulfill business requirements
(Apologies for the long post. I'm really keen to get sound and balanced advise. The only way to do that is to provide you with a good overview of the situation.. :) ..)
I would like to say upfront ...
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How to pick a platform for a startup web 2.0 app?
I am looking for recommendatins from the successfull entreprenurs on this forum to advise me on the best software technology platform to develop my web2 webapp on.
The web2 app will potentially be ...
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How do you set revenue goals for your business?
Early stage technology startup in the software space. It is the beginning of the year or quarter. Do you recommend setting quarterly revenue targets which are based on yearly projection? or do you ...
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Top 3 Marketing Tips for new Technology Startups
You have just released your product into the market and you want to start to get the word out there. What are 3 things that you think every startup should be doing to build traction?
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Is it more important to choose the “right” tech or tech you know?
If you know a technology well, should you use it for new projects?
Or you should try to objectively choose the "right" technology for the problem at hand?
If you go with what you know, you can get ...
