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1 Votes
1 Answers
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What's the best way to qualify a lead?

My industry gets a lot of tire kickers. It's heavily regulated, so most individuals give up before they open. I find prospects we existing business have a higher rate of getting into the biz. We've...

asked Oct 23 '10 at 04:06
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Sparagi
346 points

4 Votes
6 Answers
3.17K Views
Need an idea for a logo

I am in the process of starting a company and need some help with coming up with some ideas for a logo. The actual work will be outsourced to crowdspring, 99designs.com, or maybe even...

asked Nov 3 '10 at 07:42
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Whoiskb
183 points

5 Votes
8 Answers
2.62K Views
Are weak ideas worth executing?

Recently I put some effort into evaluating niches, but none of them captured me. However, I think I have some good ideas that in overall could form a usable software. The problems are: the target...

asked Nov 3 '10 at 07:45
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Pestaa
143 points

0 Votes
3 Answers
2.38K Views
How effective it is to give away prizes to increase subscriptions in a blog?

For example offering a gift card, t-shirt, etc... to people who sign up to your blog or website in general... does this work? is it worth it?

asked Oct 23 '10 at 04:53
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Ricardo
4,815 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.59K Views
How do you know someone signing an agreement has the right to do so?

Always, wondered this, and never found a good answer. Guess the opposite applies, too -- how do you know someone does NOT have the right to enter a legal agreement on behalf of a company? Please...

asked Oct 23 '10 at 05:01
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Blunders .
899 points

8 Votes
8 Answers
3.93K Views
Tips for hiring a freelancer programmer?

I'll be writing my own web-site soon, and some parts of it I plan to outsource to developers (either people I know, or if I won't find any - developers from "freelancers sites"). Has anyone who...

asked Nov 3 '10 at 08:44
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Oren A
141 points

5 Votes
6 Answers
3.24K Views
Where can one post a business plan for review?

We would like to ask for help in reviewing our plan. Not for viability of the business model but rather for clarity in explaining the plan. Does this function exist on this site? If not does anyone...

asked Nov 3 '10 at 09:30
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Xs Direct
275 points

0 Votes
2 Answers
2.05K Views
Hunting for appraisals, questions needed

I have a few products and every product has a few satisfied customers. It is great when customers are indeed telling good stuff about your product, but it is not easy to get it out of them. So I...

asked Oct 23 '10 at 06:34
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Daniel Mosmondor
106 points

1 Votes
6 Answers
3.58K Views
I'm naive, technically savy, but I can't write a line of code so I just hired a coder to build me a web application

I'm naive, technically savy, but I can't write a line of code so I just hired a coder to build me a web application.... anyways, I have a few questions about what happens next?! I have this great...

asked Oct 23 '10 at 08:12
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Alex
40 points

11 Votes
9 Answers
4.53K Views
User Registration forms - user name or email address?

I would like as simple as possible a registration and login process. Should I use a username or an email address as the key identifier during the login? (Presumably the user db might also a user...

asked Oct 28 '10 at 19:12
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J Delage
277 points

0 Votes
3 Answers
3.05K Views
Getting funding for marketing an iPhone app

I have almost finished developing an iPhone app which I feel has a lot of potential. The problem is I have no money, and I am pretty clueless about marketing. So I feel if I tried to release it by...

asked Oct 28 '10 at 20:05
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Mongus Pong
161 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.69K Views
Advice for running dating site

I'm running a nice dating site with overall good results so far (4 months in, about 4,000 members, 60,000 page view per day), I was wondering if someone with experience in dating/social sites could...

asked Oct 28 '10 at 23:12
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Sherif Buzz
462 points

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.73K Views
Where can I find a developer who would be interested in a partnership rather than up-front payment for work?

I have a site that I'd like to build in PHP/MySQL and preferably using CodeIgniter, but I don't have the time that I need to devote to building the site. I'd like to find a developer who is willing...

asked Oct 24 '10 at 01:58
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Jack
24 points

5 Votes
5 Answers
2.74K Views
Company Size Question

I have a "one man band" software company. My revenues are about $250,000 per year with 90% margins. I know my levers of growth, and expect to be 1 Million per year in about 18 months time, with...

asked Nov 4 '10 at 02:51
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Jacare 30
71 points

4 Votes
7 Answers
3.14K Views
Where do you look for startup job openings?

I tried google but not very good results.. so I wanted to check with the folks here. Any advice is welcome..

asked Nov 4 '10 at 03:09
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Birender Saini
271 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.72K Views
I have a new idea for a hardware product, how do I get started?

I have a new idea for a hardware product. Unfortunately, I only have experience with software and would only be able to develop the software side of the product. I have no idea where I would start....

asked Oct 24 '10 at 07:52
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Senseful
111 points

13 Votes
8 Answers
6.68K Views
5 tests my next business idea will have to pass - Can you add more?

I launched my most recent app a few days back. The idea is to aggregate all the business related videos, compile the meta data and also generate more meta data and present to the users. I have been...

asked Nov 4 '10 at 03:30
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Birender Saini
271 points

0 Votes
1 Answers
2.46K Views
How do you structure/run your company to ensure you maintain control over the finances?

I've repeatedly heard the advice (from successful business owners) to not give up direct control over the company finances. It seems that enough founders out there have been burned by seemingly...

asked Oct 24 '10 at 08:19
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Chris Hagner
881 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
2.79K Views
establishing contacts with other professionals/entrepreneurs from the field

Usually behind the successfull business stands the team of experts from several domains (software, marketing, finance...). In the past I've had some ideas which I still believe could be a story of...

asked Oct 24 '10 at 09:19
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Niko
128 points

3 Votes
12 Answers
4.13K Views
A platform for private brainstorming and capturing all of my ideas

I suffer from having too many ideas and am constantly bombarded by my own subconscious that drops stuff on me unexpectedly... My problem is that I need to capture all these ideas very quickly and...

asked Oct 29 '10 at 06:27
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Patrickgamer
234 points