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Is ability to scale critical for the success of startup?
Many successfull former startups are currently well-established companies in BigData space. That means that their key technical competence is in handling the large volumes of data.
Question is: is ...
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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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Implementation partners-protecting source code
I have an existing SAAS platform and I am in the process of working with multiple implementation partners or vendors for some enhancements. How do I make sure my source code is protected? Some of ...
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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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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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How do tech founders keep control over the core technology as their company grows?
Take for example, Google:
As I understand, the search engine was started as a research project.
(by the way, was it patented or the code is fully open through the contents of the respective thesis ...
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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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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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How much equity should I give up to the app developers?
I am in the process of designing a mobile app and i'm at the stage where I need to finalise the cost with the developers. They have sent me a quote which I believe to be quite high, however they have ...
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Equity sharing for my particular situation
I have read numerous posts and articles on this topic and it is clear there are several schools of thought that involve many shades of grey. I have come to a conclusion but am seeking affirmation from ...
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Measuring customer satisfaction in ecommerce business
One of the toughest questions that ecommerce businesses face concerns what is at the heart of a business –customer satisfaction. At first glance, anyone doing ecommerce business or having an interest ...
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Wifi Tablet built to Spec
I have seen a lot of information on the internet about low-cost wifi tablets from India. I have spoken to a reputable tech company in the states about ordering them and they quoted a price of $37 ea ...
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Getting Funding for a Tech Startup in Florida
I'm well aware of the vast sums of VC money in the Bay Area, Seattle, and even Boston. I'm located in the Tampa, FL area and am starting my business here. I'm willing to move the business after a ...
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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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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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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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Incubator for pay? [closed]
Say, I have:
An idea for a tech company / product, that I want to get realized.
Sufficient time, right now.
Seed capital, which I am willing also to spend on guidance.
Citizenship in a country in ...
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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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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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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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Focus of limited resources, Marketing vs. Product Development
I work for an ISV startup as lead of technical development. We have recently refocused all of our committments to a new product idea that I personally feel can be a huge success and is already ...
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Should I suspend my startup? [closed]
I was working for a large financial firms as Senior Technical Architect, spending almost 15 hours a day. I quit my job around 18 months back to start this startup and taking an underpaid/under skilled ...
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From freelance to CTO: conditions
I am currently working as a Freelance mobile programmer for a start-up since the project started, but I have always given my opinion and advise about business development (for free),
and it came to a ...
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How to deal with the technology side of a startup, or scale a technologically-oriented startup?
This is two questions in one, but they're so closely related that they ought to be addressed together.
A. If I were founding a non-technological start up -- say a financial services group -- how ...
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Which is the right way Technology Consulting or Technology Centric Consulting
I am a regular reader of this forum and am trying to clear my doubts before I actually dive in the real sea.
I am a hardcore developer working in a specific stream, web2.0. precisely on Rich ...
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are lead lists still used? by whom?
have lead lists gone the way of the dinosaur or are they still used today.
I am asking because I became the owner of a leads database and i wanted to try coding a website to make them available ...
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What is our startup worth?
Last year myself and two other partners got together to work on our startup. We got an offer from one of the investors for 40K seed money. We turned down the offer because one of the founder was ...
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How many users use Google, Yahoo, MSN and Outlook Calendars? [closed]
I'm working on a product and needs to check how many users are using web based calendars. Or how many users create calendar events per year. I need this to figure out the market size. I tried to ...
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Searching For RFPs
I am in the IT industry and recently started an LLC. I have mostly been freelancing by myself on projects, but am looking to get into RFPs for bigger projects with a bigger team I plan to take on.
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Business opportunities around IPv6?
(I asked this a while back on startups.com but didnt receive any response. I hope its not a problem posting here)
There's a coming shortage of IPv4 addresses, for which IPv6 is the solution. eg: ...
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Raising money for a technological company
My partner and I have come up with a unique technology that can provide a solution to many small-scale problems.
We've been working on the technology full time for the past 5 months and now we are ...
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Need a senior rails developer quick
Our nascent startup in something of a desperate situation. We received a term sheet from an accelerator yesterday requiring us to colocate in NYC for the summer to work on the project in exchange for ...
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What qualifies as a “tech” startup? [closed]
I hear the words "tech startup" thrown around a lot when talking about various sorts of online businesses, apps, social networks, etc.
I know this question seems vague but I really haven't been able ...
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Tumblr, EverNote, Facebook - How Do They Start? [closed]
There is a lot's of start-ups that not protected by a patent like tumblr/twitter/evernote and more...
How do they start getting massive users without letting copycats and Competitor disturbing them??
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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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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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Likely to take a new move [closed]
Myself a newbie, Graduate in electronics likely to enter into software field seeks help from professionals....
Am little bit confused about choosing a technology to get started up...
Here comes my ...
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What is the fastest method to create the current, trendy websites (static 'n' dynamic)? [closed]
What is the fastest method to create the current, trendy websites (static 'n' dynamic)?
I have seen website being built from scratch, and from a pre-defined template.
I am little curious to know - ...
