A website is a collection of related static and/or dynamic web content containing pages, images, videos or other multimedia assets accessible via an Internet address.
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When a huge company copies your startup
What do you do when a huge online company (as dominant as say Google, Apple, Microsoft etc in their respective niche) has a big feature that's been lacking in their very popular product, and your ...
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Hosting images outside main site?
I noticed that sites like StackOverflow host user-submitted images outside their site, (in the SO case, at imgur). I've also seen forums do the same thing.
Are there advantages to taking this ...
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IS .com is better than other extension ? How? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I get a .co or .com?
Statement - 1) Many peoples says that .com is better domain extension than other extension like .org, .net, .info, .gov , .in etc. According ...
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Should a great project to solve one problem become a start-up?
Some time back, I set out to solve a specific problem:
How can I help people who haven't met yet collaborate to create great ideas ahead of weekend startup events?
I couldn't find a site out there ...
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257 views
How to find a programer/partner to my idea
I believe I have a great idea and want to make a website for that. The problem is that i can't find any CMS which fits my needs and my capabilities to develop myself the PHP MySQL solution are very ...
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Ecommerce website development - advice needed
I am starting an eCommerce marketplace. I am about to give the go ahead to my designer to start work- however I have already paid 2000$ for development.
But, for the maintenance only he is charging ...
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Recognise Business Partners on Website
Is it any kind of practice to recognise companies in which I have a business to business relationship with? For example, putting a small logo for my attorney on my company's website. "We enjoy doing ...
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How can I protect my website concept?
My dilemma is that I have the ability to design and develop my web concept to a certain extent and I'm doing courses to equip myself with as much knowledge as I can get to take it as far as possible.
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Do I want to pull clients to my company's facebook page or its web site?
I am writing an iOS app which I hope to publish in the next month or so. In parallel, I will set up a web site and a Facebook page for my company. The purpose of these sites is to show other apps I've ...
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118 views
Split main website and core application
I have question about some organizational issue. Is a good idea to split my main information website (home, about, contact, ...) and my core application service to domain and subdomain?
For example:
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Selecting a Pricing structure-How to offer free membership?
We are nearing the launch of our website which is a wholesale marketplace and network, which hosts transactions between Buyers and Sellers. We are deciding between two offers for a period of free use ...
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Considering hiring advisors/consultants for my startup website
How should they be paid; what is an average fee for a professional...non professional?
I really don't know how much time or useful info they will provide so is giving them a percentage of ownership a ...
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Is it smart to use remote programmers/web designers for my first startup social networking site?
I have the option of using remote staff individually at a cheaper rate, however I am considering using a local company that has a team because I can sit down with them and explain what I need on an ...
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Startup project - hide from employer or cooperate with him?
I am a software developer. I have a good idea and I'd like to create a startup. I am planning to invite one or two of my colleagues as co-founders.
I am concerned about the relationships with my ...
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3answers
217 views
How much should I expect to receive per website (for web design)?
I am a student who wants to start a small web design business with a few of my friends. Our clients will be local small businesses (e.g. family-run businesses). We're not expecting them to request ...
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Website - Do I need a lawyer?
In the next few days I want to start a gaming network.
Now I have written everything by myself and I am wondering about legal issues.
For example: Payment, User-agreement, TOS?
I currently live in ...
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Starting a website, do I need a trademark? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it worth it to register a trademark for a software product that I am developing?
I am creating a website that has potential for thousand of users, the name is not ...
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228 views
What format for a software homepage will result in more sales?
Currently reviewing two types of homepages for software products:
Stylish with minimum content on the homepage: boxshot, download button, buy now button and sometimes features listed as small ...
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Charging a transaction fee, what's the right number?
My partner and I are developing a marketplace website that connects retailers with product makers, allows them to communicate with each-other and hosts wholesale transactions-we are looking for advice ...
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What are the pros and cons of hiring a developer for your startup in some other location? [closed]
The design for a website is ready and I am looking for a developer who can to start with develop the minimum viable product (paying the resource monthly or as a contract) and if we get along well, ...
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Complete Rookie Here. I Need Advice On Where to Begin From Only an Idea
I'm a complete web/entrepreneur rookie with an idea that I believe in passionately and don't know where to begin. I know for a fact that my idea is unique and will fill a huge hole in the market and ...
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242 views
legal issues releasing my personal website
I've been trying to make my personal website for a long time, and now that is almost done, I've been investigating about some legal details that I must solve in order to release my website, based on ...
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Which business domain to forward to?
Question:
Should I forward my business website to my easier to remember .co or my longer .com?
I have two domain names, one of which I was going to forward to my longer .com one. Except when I ...
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Is it legal to sell game templates?
I'm thinking about setting up a membership based site where I design game website templates and allow the members free access to the templates as a paid member.
I see websites selling actual gaming ...
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Equity share in product not company
thanks for taking the time to read this, any advise is welcomed.
A friend of mine is trying to get launch a new piece of software. As we work well together and he wants to keep initial development ...
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Who should I contact if I want to sell my website to big company?
I am a founder. I'm planning to write a letter/email to sell one of my website to big company, but the question is: Who should I contact?
The CEO of company, the product manager or just anyone that ...
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242 views
What kind of development team will we need?
How many developers would it take to build another Facebook? Or at least a trimmed down version. Can one good developer do it, or would we need a large team? I have three partners, none of us has ...
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Current web technologies in business point of view
I am a software engineer with no experience on web development and I will work on a startup which main product is a website.
We are in the very beggining of things, we are not commited to any ...
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1answer
127 views
Travel website - 3rd Party Data Integration
I'm creating a travel website that lets users select points of interest for a particular city (a restaurant, museum, etc.). These records are to be displayed on a google map as markers. This I've done ...
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Evaluating competitors assets
I'm curious to know how most go about gathering information regarding their competitors? I am interested in developing an application that would directly compete with numerous websites and I am having ...
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1answer
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Monetizing a webapp
I am building a website that solves word games (scrabble, wordfeud, angry words etc.). It does it better than any websites I have seen.
I am thinking about how to make money on it (I have three ...
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Does 20,000 free downloads mean at least 10,000 paid sales?
I have found certain shareware software products have large number of downloads. My question is if there are some 20,000 free downloads, how many of the downloaders would have actually bought and ...
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Starting a software company without registration
I want to sell a software product. I would like to use a brand name e.g. mysoftcompany in the EULA (End User License Agreement) and in the contact details of webpage. So that the software is sold ...
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I have a great idea, a working site, and no clue where to go!
So like others, I had a great idea, built the site and it functions very well. There is no other site out there that does this, and it's truly a very useful site.
Now here is the problem, I have a ...
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170 views
College Interns v/s Professional Developers?
We are currently facing a dilemma as to whether should we hire interns from colleges (as their summer vacations are about to start) or should we approach some professional guys to build our website?
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Using customers' logo on my website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I use the logos of other companies on my site?
This is a legal question, so I suppose I should consult a lawyer ... any lawyers reading this? ;-)
After almost 2 ...
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155 views
Acquiring a website with unclear ownership
We want to acquire a website that is driven by a large community and non-profit. Before going to the attorney I want to do my own research on this topic.
The problem is that the ownership of this ...
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1answer
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from hobby to the real thing
I started a few years ago a few blogs with the format of a directory with some business listed on it. It started by using all free stuff (free blog services, hosting, templates, images etc etc) today ...
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How important is the quality of the website?
I'm planning to launch on iPhone app. In doing so, I am also starting my business; whether personal or LLC etc is still undetermined.
I am in the process of creating a WordPress website for this ...
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Company Names and Websites
I have been running a website for a month or so and as I now have some revenue coming through it, I have registered a limited company.
The company name is different from my website name, as I didn't ...
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Starting development company, how to start?
We are a team of 3 people who are developers. We would like to offer services like
website / webapp development
mobile app development
desktop app development
We are only coders, we dont have ...
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How do I Distribute Online Games to Other Websites?
I am currently starting a website that promotes the collaboration of artists programmers and musicians to develop web and mobile games. Once these games are complete I would like to distribute them to ...
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Complex Website Architecture Design w.r.t Usability and Design [closed]
Are there any good websites/blogs which discusses about Complex website architecture designs when it comes to usability and Design. For example if some one wants to build websites like Amazon, Ebay, ...
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Legality of selling recreations (website templates)
I've been doing webdesign for a couple of years now and I really enjoy designing the initial layout for my pages. That being said, I've also had some fun projects were I created "look a-likes" of ...
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Can I sell an open source project to my client?
i have one open source project, i want to sell this to my client by making some modification in the existing project. Is it good to sell or is it permissible to sell the open source project to ...
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Does one man startup require signing any legal documents?
Ok, let say. I have created a web based application, registered a domain name, and hosted it on the Internet. Can I say it's a one man startup?
If not, then: What will it be if I just host my app on ...
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1answer
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How should I monetize a game development network app?
I am building an web app for game developers to exchange artwork, code, music, etc., however I cannot decide how to effectively monetize this network.
The most obvious way would be to advertise. I ...
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Partnership Gone Bad
For the past 6 months or so I have been working on a project with 2 partners. Here's the breakdown:
Partner 1: Finance, marketing, sales, legal
Partner 2: Product dev, design, branding
Me: Tech, ...
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Issues with Start-Up and Co-Founders
Currently I am stuck in a messy situation where I am the only designer/developer for the web driven start up, along with being co-founder, the other two co-founders (business guy and editor), are ...
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How realistic is it to fund grad school with a web start-up?
A little background first: I just got accepted to a one year master's program in chemical engineering at my school, but I need to find a way to come up with roughly $20,000 - $30,000 over the next ...
