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What are the 5 must-do basic things to have a shot at being marginally successful on a first day web site launch? The measure of success is defined (in our case) as at least having: 1) 50000 hits...
As a consultant for large corporations my startup is considering recommending the following: Imagine that you have a large business with several thousand employees. Usually such a business has...
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In the California LLC-12 form, Item 12 is "Type of Business". How specific should my answer be? I want to leave it as general as possible give myself the maximum flexibility. In case I need to be...
25 points
We all know the legendary companies that became huge as a result of investors (both angels & VCs) but are there good examples of successful companies that took off simply on funding from the...
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Company looks like this: investor = input money only 30% share founder/developer (me) = input money ( about 1/2 what investor has ) and tons of sweat equity 1+ year 40% share developer = sweat...
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I read the book*The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It*. It is said that we should treat a business as a system, as a money-making machine. We should...
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Surely we aren't the only ones that have faced this. A new customer of ours (based in the UK) is trying to set us up as a vendor and sent us a form to fill out. The assumptions on the form are that...
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I'm working on a website that I'll need beta tested soon. It's a startup. Where should I go to get a good pool of testers? It would also be great to have a good pool of hackers who can show...
How might you record a loan from directors to the company in the books? From my perspective this is an investment into the company which I hope will be refunded when the company makes...
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We are planning to form a company for online e-commerce sale and would like to know which is better location - Austin (TX) or Delaware for the following: Ease of formation (we are in India, and...
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Have a look at the following layouts for some well known...
Warren Buffet says, "Hire people based on Passion,Intelligence and Integrity." People's passion is visible in the first meeting, and intelligence comes out in a couple of hours in a discussion, but...
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I have designed a prototype of my idea which includes simple electronic circuits. I would like to manufacture it in China. (yes ... because of the money) I would like to know how it is to find a...
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I like the idea of open source collaboration and making our code for our application we are building public on github. This would allow people to give their input and even allow certain parts of...
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As the producer of a commercial app can I ask users for media to use in the app in exchange for small payment (i.e. $5 for each pic used) to fill in content of the app? If so can I have users email...
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We spent quite a bit of money and time building a great IT career Site. In the meantime, another opportunity that's more lucrative with less competition came up. So we are looking to have the...
I set up a company and had a software developer create a new software program for the company. I thought that the idea for the software was novel, and before developing the software, I did some...
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My LLC operating agreement details the cash and non-cash initial capital contribution of the members. One of them is contributing the source code of the program that will be basis of the...
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I'm going to be working with some friends to start up a few websites. It won't always be the same group of people working on each site. Initially we expect to make no money on any of these sites....
This is a follow up question to DNS Hosting Services - hopefully it's okay that I post like this. I'm running a business app where users move their site to our platform, and looking for a better...
