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There are a wide range of options available for you when starting out:
Bootstrap. Have a day job that pays your bills, have the night job which is your start up. Get some clients, use the money from them to reinvest in more marketing and advertising, keep going until you don't need the day job.
Going through job boards and online job sites like odesk and ...
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I am deciding on leaving university to carry on with a business idea
if it is as successful as I believe.
Consider staying in school. Many startups fail, and while money may not be a primary consideration, the glorified version of a successful startup only taking 12 months of your time is a mirage.
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You don't need money to start a startup. I started out with the exact same resources, only I didn't have a Mac, nor Windows. Crappy old PC and Linux worked just as fine. :)
What you do need though, is a good team. Work on that, if you don't have one yet. It might be challenging. Took me almost two years and two restarts to find the right people.
If you got ...
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In the US, you can refer to the FTC guide on pre-sales warranties for insight. Clearly spelling out what defines the start of service is key.
Example: with a 30 day satisfaction guarantee - is start of service defined as:
at the start of the "Free trial"
after trial / start of payment cycle
at the start of the initial payment cycle
at the start of each ...
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In terms of time, this is no different than starting a business while employed full-time. Many founders choose to maintain their day jobs while working on their startup, so I believe you can do the same with school.
However, there are differences between the two:
You will learn a lot of valuable skills while in college. Those of us that went through ...
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I'm not familiar with Indiegogo, but I've answered a bunch of questions about Kickstarter, and I'll reiterate here these answers (I know its too much to expect from people to look whether the questions have been asked before).
Do I need company registered to be able to get money through pages
like those?
To the best of my knowledge - no. You can ...
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There are 3 different things here:
The details of the guarantee - each company has it's own idea about what a "30 days money back guarantee" is, usually it's buried in some terms of service document and vary a lot between companies, for example, a lot of companies only offer the guarantee for the first payment.
Chargeback conditions - Its very possible ...
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In the US, Federal Law allows the consumer 60 days from the date of their billing statement date to contest the charges. When you bill them is not relevant, except in extending the time.
So if the customer starts their subscription on the 1st, and you bill on that date (which means that the charge clears on the 2nd), and the credit card company issues their ...
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Get a job and write open source in your prime time at Github. When you have something cool, others open source guys might be attracted. After all you can then try to join a Foundation like the Apache Software Foundation to get even more attraction.
After all nobody is giving you a cent for a dream. At least when the dream is of an open source project ...
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Double what you're currently earning as a permie and you won't be far off a reasonable approximation of a contractor income.
My last permie salary was approximately 80K a year, for which I got £4300 a month after tax. I don't count bonus because you really can't count on this as it is discretionary.
My first contractor role was paid at £500 a day. I ...
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