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Is there a free, open source inventory / order control system? [closed]
I am looking for a free and preferably open source system to deal with order processing and stock/inventory control, that can integrate into amazon, ebay, and our own website sales.
At the moment ...
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What are the processes and required steps to create new online company in Canada? [closed]
My friend and I planning on creating new company in Toronto. Both of us are founders. He funds the company in terms of creating the web application and I'll manage it, since he does not have time to ...
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How to keep information about the side business private from corporationwiki etc.?
I am looking to incorporate a startup online business as a side business in california. I want to keep the information about my involvement private until I'm somewhat confident about the enterprise. ...
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How to bring a simple product to market? [closed]
I have what I consider to be a simple and great idea. Like many people. Obviously, I won't describe it here, but I'll give a simple example of similar scale for answerers to work with.
Say my idea is ...
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How improbable is it that a founder with student loan debt will grab seed funding?
I noticed that student loan debt is almost never mentioned in articles discussing the acquisition of angel funding and funding from VC's. I have a hard time believing that investors will invest in ...
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Who is investing in EdTech? [closed]
I have a start-up in edtech, located in eastern Europe. I'm not supposed to promote it here, i know :)
The question is, probably someone knows the list of active investors in educational technology ...
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Choosing the right people for marketing the product [closed]
We have developed a new product that will hit the travel business soon at Pune India. One part needs to be installed on the cab drivers phone, and the other part needs to be installed on travelers.
I ...
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Proof of concept research [closed]
I do have an idea for an ecommerce store with niche to it. Is there a way or any practices how I can prove there is a market for it before I put all my money in?
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What's the best way to host a video startup [closed]
we trying to build a video streaming content startup, kind of like hulu, where subscribed users watch videos. We plan on creating iphone, android and blackberry apps later on too. But for now, we are ...
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iphone app revenue statistics
Does anyone know if there is any way possible to find revenue statistics for iPhone apps? I am aware of how secretive Apple is with the App Store but is there any way even if its not very accurate?
I ...
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choosing a hosting platform [closed]
How do I choose a hosting provider for a startup website?
It needs to be flexible and easy to maintain. Since I do not want to run costs of renting and maintaing a private server that I am not going ...
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How can I split income with a person I never met?
I am currently working on a game for the Android devices with a person I found from a forum. I have never met this guy before and so far we have only talked on email. He is from the UK and I am from ...
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Valuing a business based on time spent
We are a small online business that has been running for a couple of years.
We have an annual turnover of around £35,000, profit on which is around £10,000. We haven't spent much time or effort on ...
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Starting Online MLM Business! [closed]
Everyone in online marketing knows you got to have traffic in order to get leads. I am looking for free ways to get the ball started. I do free traffic sites, list builders, google email extraction ...
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Budget/costings for mobile app enhancements [closed]
I have been asked to compile a broad strategy and budget estimate for a V2.0 mobile app (there is a v1.0 on the market) in an agile setting for an interview and I am stuck on the how about to put ...
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1answer
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How to monetize payment processing within a SaaS [closed]
I'm designing a SaaS now that allows users to invoice customers and accept payments via the customer's credit card. The users should also be able to make payments to their vendors. What's the best way ...
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Where can I get a template legal document confirming my share in a startup? [closed]
I agreed to do some minor work to a newborn startup for percentage of shares, not cash as they do not have it (yet). Where can I get a template of legal document (for the UK) which says that I do the ...
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Finder's Fee - How to structure the agreement? [closed]
I have a memorandum of understanding I have been asked to sign. The agreement is between my Ontario, Canada company and an Ontario real estate developer for which I will be bringing in funds (either ...
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Virtual Web Conference / Tradeshow [closed]
Where do you go to when you want to have a virtual booth in a virtual tradeshow?
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Fundraising seed capital with just a business plan and no product
We have a great idea for a product in a niche market ripe for a paradigm shift on the way business is done. All we have is a kick-ass business plan with detailed projections, costs, marketing, etc - ...
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Selling a web startup idea in India [closed]
I am involved in a startup which might be also helpful in micro economic countries like India/Bangladesh/Pakistan/Indonesia/Etc. Basically South Asian countries.
My startup is a web 2.0. I am living ...
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1answer
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Getting divorce after starting a company in Florida
I am a married guy in state of Florida and I am in the initial phase of my first web startup. Well, the things are not running smooth at personal level and sooner I will be getting a divorce with my ...
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Creating Continuous Income through real estate rentals?
I'm very new here but I'm happy to have found this site.
I'm thinking of starting a company very soon that is real-estate driven. I want to get some advice/ consult from somebody who has successfully ...
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Comparing Investments: Selling land vs. starting a business [closed]
I have a situation where I need to compare some investing alternatives.
We and my partners own a piece of land with high commercial value, that was bought 7 years ago. Now the real estate market ...
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Need help to understand the pros and cons between open source vs closed source license for webapp?
I'd like to ask you for the help/advise to come out of the problem that came out recently in our group.
We're working for 3-4 months on the web application similar to http://instagram.com/ or ...
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What are the most successful University seed-stage venture capital funds? [closed]
I'm trying to benchmark 'best-practices' in university seed-stage venture capital funds. That is, university funds that invest in inventions, businesses, or products created by one's own alum.
One ...
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Silicon Valley No-No's [closed]
Leo Widrich begins his recent post "The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup," by saying, "One of the big no-no’s we’ve learnt about early on in Silicon Valley is ..."
What are the ...
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To get business orders for Small software company or how to get outsourced by big companies [closed]
We are a small Software concern started before an year and how to get abroad software projects or how to get outsourced by big IT concerns around the world
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What is a reasonable price for a developer?
I've been developing my own websites for a while, earning money by selling virtual items within games. Recetly I just got hired as a developer for the first time.
I've making minigames for them, and ...
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How does reverse-vesting work?
How does reverse-vesting work? I understand the company has the right to "buy back" shares if the employee leaves early, but how exactly does that work? What price do they pay per share?
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Describing an Upfront Cost in an Invoice Description?
My client and I have agreed to 2 payments. One is due right after signing the contract (due 7 days after) and another when the product is completed.
I'm currently drafting the invoice for the first ...
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How to determine market saturation
I am a student getting a computer engineering degree, and I have always wanted to develop my own software and sell it, essentially building a startup company
I really don't have much business ...
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Domain name confusion
(apologies to those who had to read the prior messy and insanely long text. i shortened it as below)
I will be thankful for your insights on possible domain name conflicts in the following case.
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How to be a resource and asset to new start up software development in E-commerce? [closed]
Looking to be a resource and asset to new start up software development in E-commerce (online finance) / I have API for automated invoicing / registration / custom gateway / mobile etc... I think of ...
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Ad network for Indian market and localized customer
I am developing a cab (taxi) search and booking mobile application. I need to subscribe to a ad network to plug in ad's on my application. Now, I need the ad network to push relevant content to my ...
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Royalties as a means for acknowledging founders
I am in the process of establishing a business with four partners. Initially the shares were going to be split between the four partners but now it is clear that the majority of the work will be done ...
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Would the names/affiliation of officers of my side-business get posted on the internet?
I heard of websites such as corporationwiki that dig internet/state records for company information and post that data online. How many such sites are there and how can I stop this information being ...
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Interpretation of phrase “X, namely Y” in trademark?
I have a question regarding how a certain aspect of trademarks should be interpreted in the general sense, but I'll provide some of the specifics of my situation as a concrete example.
The General ...
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What is a lean startup and why should I go this route?
I'm considering a startup that starts with a minimum viable product. Despite what I've read, the lean startup feels contra-effective.
My question to the community is, what exactly defines a 'lean ...
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Does equity stake truly affect voting position?
In this question, the original poster has a hidden question in:
Giving up an equity stake puts me at a disadvantage from a voting perspective (or does it?) Can you structure it as a non-voting ...
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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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Planning for an Acquisition Strategy
I am a software developer half-way through the design and prototyping of what I believe will be a very successful new software product.
Soon I will begin development, and am currently planning on ...
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Mold Makers and Offshore Manufacturing [closed]
I need an injection mold made for my product. I'm also going to need someone to manufacture my product. Where can I get a high level overview of all the offshore companies that offer injection molding ...
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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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Markup material cost on startup
I was in a debate recently with someone on how we should go about pricing out our material costs to clients and we couldn't decide on what is the proper way in going about doing this.
Example:
If a ...
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Free / open source email copytexts for Startups? [closed]
Writing good copy is critical to the success of any online business; customers judge operations by subtle hints of wording, phrases, and design.
Places like eg. copyhackers provide an awesome ...
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Operational email policy
We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit.
We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for example: ...
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BizSpark - is it worthwhile to persevere with your application?
I'm a bit tired and frustrated with my BizSpark application. I've been rejected twice. The first time, I didn't have a company E-Mail and URL. The second time, I provided a proper company E-Mail and ...
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How Long is A Sidekick Obligated to Be Your Partner? [closed]
Thanks for your help guys. I'm trying to understand the terms of "employment" for a startup side kick.
Basically, I've got a good idea for a startup. There's a kid who's going to Yale who wants to ...
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Investing in startups online
I've seen plenty of websites that utilize philanthropic crowd-funding, but I'm unable to find any websites that allow people to purchase equity online. Are there any? If not, for what reason?
Note: ...
