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How to tell my co-founder that he is lazy and needs to step up his game?
I have a two member software start-up with a co-founder who is also a very good friend.
We make decent money through our products and services, but could do much much better if my co-founder did not ...
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Should we pick a “boss” in a startup with friends?
I recently began working with two longtime friends on a startup, and we are hitting a wall when attempting to progress on anything.
We all possess fairly similar skills, so we can each handle any ...
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What software for Time Tracking and Billing? [closed]
A friend of mine is running a consultancy company and she needs a software to manage the people that go to their customers. I've been using Project Management Software before, but this case is ...
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When is the optimum time to launch a landing page?
I've seen a gap in a niche for a SaaS product that I know that there will be a demand for. I'm currently working on developing my MVP to launch as soon as possible and am wondering when the best time ...
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best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling? [closed]
Best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling?
Actually, I am searching for the best protocols in managing follow up calls.
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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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How to manage time remaining from main job?
I have a paid job and it takes most of the daytime.
After that I am back home and when all the home things are done there's a couple of hours left for startup work.
Quite often I go to bed at around ...
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How do you keep yourself and employees from goofing off?
I have noticed that for the past few months, I have been wasting a lot of time on needless things. How do you keep yourself focused in your business?
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Time Management Techniques
I am learning Inbound Marketing techniques and trying to apply it within my company. No doubt, I have become a big fan of it.
How it relates to time management? Time management is always easy to read ...
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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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While working on my startup, should I keep track of my time?
I'm a cofounder at a startup.
One thing I have been thinking about alot lately is time tracking. I usually spend the day at the office, and then I get home and continue to work on more stuff. I ...
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How do you manage ideas effectively?
I've been working on an idea with a while now and plan to go full startup come the summer. However, every now and then I'll get another awesome (at least, it seems awesome) idea. I'm never sure what ...
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escape-velocity (escape from the work paradox)
I can't concentrate on a startup, other than 2-3 hours a day because I have to work to make a living. In practice, an idea will take me 3 years to implement at this pace which makes it meaningless to ...
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Can anyone recommend a multiplatform shared calendar for team of 7?
I am looking for a shared calendar which works via Outlook, iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Web browser which will allow separate coloured entries for each user each person must be able to see each ...
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What exactly take takes up a lot of time and effort starting a business
I have heard (and believe) that starting a new company takes huge amounts of time and effort. Having never done it myself I don't know where this time and effort is normally expended. Say for a tech ...
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How should i slice my time in various activities involved in a startup
This is my first post to this forum. I started a company offering outsourced software product development few months back. Things were moving slowly so far with myself doing all the coding for entire ...
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Should I have a girlfriend while bootstrapping a startup? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to start a business and not destroy your marriage?
I began to seriously work on a startup idea during the summer after reading a bunch of blogs and watching startup ...
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Should the time devoted to development be proportional to the market share?
Should the time spent on developing a new software product be proportional to the market share of the platform? For example, if Android is 50% of the market share and Apple is 25%, then for every 2 ...
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A Lazy Entreprener - the Full/Part Time Dilemma
Question: Can a lazy entrepreneur/perfectionist make it?
I am 50, single, and after 15 years have built a very nice sole prop web design business. I became more disciplined last year and might ...
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Is a startup a full-time job?
For the last 5 years I was in a PhD program and I'm currently in the writing phase of my thesis. In addition I work on my startup, for the last 4-5 months. However, due to limited time, the startup is ...
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Finding more time to work on our startup
My business partner has a full time job and I do full time contract development. We are both married and have kids which means that there is not much time left over for our startup idea.
What would ...
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Running a dating site - Use volunteers for administration - how to keep them motivated?
I'm running a dating site and I have 3 volunteers working on the administration (approving photos, profiles, removing stalkers, etc). The problem I'm having is that they are, as volunteers, very ...
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Starting a company to do computer security training
I want to do training in computer security: it's been my life for 30 years after all. But I want to keep my day job as a college professor as well. My university (like most universities) allows me 1 ...
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When is it appropriate to delegate overhead work?
Currently, I have both a start-up and a consulting business (self-funded), and having some trouble deciding when it is appropriate to delegate overhead tasks. The most common advice given to ...
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What do you think about working only 4 days?
Our startup is getting bigger and I'm thinking about decreasing our weekdays to 4. I always wanted this for myself and now I thought I can give it a try in my own company.
We are fairly small, about ...
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Mental/physical risks of working hard and how to mitigate them
It is of course best to only bite off what you can chew. And many workaholics are accomplishing just as much as someone who puts in half the hours. But! If you find yourself in a long-term ...
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What's the best automation trick you know that would relate to most startups? [closed]
Believe the question is clear, if you have questions, just let me know. All real answers will get a vote up by me, and I will select an answer in 24-48 hours. Cheers!
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