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We are fortunate to be scheduled Sunday to interview Daniel Pink, Author of several books, most recently Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (#35 presently at Amazon.) Here's a TED...
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For the last year I have been running a blog called Lean Startups Blog. I want to take it to another level by inviting guest posters and possibly inviting some of my friends to co-run it with me. I...
I'm Tom, one of the co-founders of oQuizo.com - a multiplayer trivia game. We opened the business two weeks ago in open beta. What we find difficult is to how to position our site. It seems our...
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Here is the situation. I'm working with two other folk on our startup and we are now planning to incorporate. We're trying to figure out how to allocate founder equity between ourselves. So far,...
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Other than google alerts... I'd like to know anytime "StarStreet" "sports stock market" "starstreetsports.com" are mentioned. Anything out there I should be using in addition to google alerts?
Boring subject, I know, but... I am looking to set up my company's accounts shortly and would appreciate some guidance from more established business operators. I don't know if there is any...
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Hello all Does any one here know or working in the software libraries market? Developing network stacks, helpers, convertors, components and such?
I'm a web developer who is one half of a start up. Part of our business is designing, building, and hosting websites for clients. Past experience has shown me that webapp maintenance can, at times,...
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I have a forum page where users interact and discuss different topics. Lets say one user submits a link to a sales item hosted by an online retailer (ex. macy's sweater on sale on macys.com). How...
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I am looking for a VC that invests in the homeland security or access control industries... Is there a website where I can search for VC's according to the field in which they invest? I found...
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I'm considering the option of employing a developer from oDesk to work on my web startup. My rough plan would be: Write a detailed specification. Produce the design (in terms of class diagrams,...
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Entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas for a software startup (but not enough money at the beginning) would have faced the issue in the beginning: Where should i start building the alpha version of my...
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For crowd sourcing basically there are two main contenders, crowdspring and 99designs. I know they are both good and we can't go wrong with either one, but I am sure we can find out which one is...
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As we've all learned, creating content is a great way to gain attention without resorting to advertising. The problem with creating content is time investment. Not everybody makes a good blogger...
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I am feeling the effect of seeing DISQUS on certain blogs in that it makes me more likely to comment. Is this true for others here? Does any blog/site owner have data on increased comment counts...
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So there's tons of documentation and books on project management, agile development, how to manage outsourcing projects, how to send our project offshore, etc... But I'm on the other side, I'm...
141 points
Is being a non '.com' website create friction amongst a set of internet users? Is being a .com really easier to remember?
Do you reward your users when they contribute to the product (for example - with detailed bug reports)? I'm wondering if we should give them a couple of weeks of free service, or maybe a discount...
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I have a couple of friends who are sharp, technical guys that I may be interested in starting a company with. They are vaguely familiar with web startups (as a career), but are not tapped in to the...
301 points
It seems to me that if you are going to start a business, you are better off spending the 40 hours you were going to spend prepping for a competition actually working on your business. Outside of...
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