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| bio | website | RiskyThinking.com |
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| location | Ottawa, Canada | |
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| visits | member for | 3 years, 1 month |
| seen | Oct 5 '12 at 3:54 | |
| stats | profile views | 59 |
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May 20 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Oct 5 |
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How could I validate a product that saves large SaaS biz money on bandwith? Note that if you can significantly improve compression, you may also be able to improve latency - this might be valuable too. |
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Oct 5 |
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How could I validate a product that saves large SaaS biz money on bandwith? @NewAlexandria - if you can compress all common compression formats by a further 15% then a patent might be worth considering... You might also look into the Hutter Prize. I was just trying to point out that for any particular site you can make a pretty good guess at the answer, but that there are no "typical" figures. |
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Oct 4 |
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How could I validate a product that saves large SaaS biz money on bandwith? Your hope for bandwidth classification is a bit naive: it depends upon the nature of the service (Flickr vs Salesforce.com). I'd be impressed if you could beat the current caching/JPEG/PNG/GIF compression/gzip compression which is already widely deployed by any significant margin. |
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Oct 4 |
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Is it common for people to work for free in exchange for equity in a startup? You're really asking the developer to believe in your idea even more than you do: otherwise you'd simply take out a personal loan and pay him/her. |
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Oct 4 |
answered | Potential offer as first employee at startup, worth it? |
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Oct 4 |
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How do I invoice Canadian customer from US? @katit - In which case I'd suggest setting up a credit card recurring billing option - less chasing on invoice payments convenience for both US and Canadian customers, and $150/month on a credit card is easier for many people than getting their company to process a Purchase Order / Invoice. Paypal/Stripe/... others if you don't want to set up a merchant account directly. (Paypal still has perception problems for me for higher value amounts, although my accountant hasn't found using it an issue for some fixed price services). |
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Oct 3 |
answered | How do I invoice Canadian customer from US? |
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Sep 29 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Aug 21 |
answered | Seeking Information About the Continued Costs of an LLC. Should I Talk to a Lawyer or Accountant? |
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May 20 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 8 |
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using consulting experience to create a new product Will you be competing with your former client? Will the people you sell the product to be competing? If so, you are on shaky ground - you might well be sued even if your contract with them is iron clad. Also allegations of using a client's trade secrets wouldn't do much for your future prospects. If you are not competing, then you could ask the client. (Personally I have a clause covering this possibility in consulting contracts - I'm allowed to reuse technology in non-competing projects.) |
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Jan 15 |
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Has anyone sold a “fork” version of their software? You obviously can't give them a price until you know what modifications are necessary, and to know that you need to know more. (And you may be able to do additional modifications based on their target market). Their negotiator will try and get you to name a price first (in case you underestimate how much it is worth to them), and you will try to get them to name a price first (in case it is worth much more than you thought). |
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Jan 15 |
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is this ad revenue model accurate? Additional Info |
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Jan 15 |
answered | is this ad revenue model accurate? |
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Jan 9 |
answered | Determining Price for Data |
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Nov 24 |
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Which countries are easiest for non-EU entrepreneurs to immigrate to? Some countries have slightly looser rules for citizenship: any chance of an Irish grandparent, for example? |
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Nov 24 |
answered | What is the difference between incorporation, private ltd and limited? |
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Nov 15 |
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Questions around vesting vis-a-vis dilution, leaving a company and being fired from a company Fair is what you all can agree upon. These clauses are generally in shareholder / employment agreements - whereas authorized shares (often unlimited), issued shares are in articles of incorporation. For startups with multiple founders, consider a "shotgun clause" (Google for details) in case the original partnership breaks up. I'm not a lawyer, so I'd prefer not to give specific advice - especially as local laws may apply. |
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Nov 15 |
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My startup idea has been developed before we could do it. What now? It's more likely that they just had the same idea as you, and that there is an obvious method of execution. How likely is it that somebody in another country would hear of your idea, copy it, implement it, and launch a startup all within the 3 months you have been trying to get funding? There are probably other companies in this market you haven't of yet. |
