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1 Answers
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How to best make use of large corporate "partnership"?

Let's say a small software company has a product which can help several very large key players within the industry sell far more of their products. Let us also assume that these corporate giants...

asked Feb 16 '10 at 00:55
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Nbeecroft
515 points

5 Votes
5 Answers
8.44K Views
How to calculate the price to quote for a service?

Is there a logical way to come up with pricing for a service such as below that my friend came up with. Are these valid ? Split down the service into as many small steps as possible. Make sure to...

asked Feb 5 '10 at 01:14
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Emacsian
126 points

5 Votes
2 Answers
2.53K Views
What essential things should be on a press page?

We've had a few good unsolicited articles written about us over the past few weeks which have driven quite a lot of traffic our way. We have noticed that many of them don't use great screenshots,...

asked Feb 5 '10 at 01:47
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Rlivsey
206 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.09K Views
How much transparency is too much?

Recently, my partners and I thought it would be a good idea to blog about almost everything about our company. This includes things like the following: Revenue Expenses Meeting discussions Other...

asked Feb 10 '10 at 10:23
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Jp Richardson
151 points

11 Votes
9 Answers
3.97K Views
How do you recruit enough 'top talent' for your company?

For many organizations that have achieved some level of success, effectively growing the staff, without compromising the overall quality of who you bring on board, is a critical challenge. What do...

asked Feb 16 '10 at 07:09
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Chris Hagner
881 points

5 Votes
8 Answers
4.14K Views
DNS Hosting Services

Can you recommend a good DNS hosting service? I'm looking for a happy median between the free (and not reliable) providers and the staggeringly expensive ones.

asked Feb 5 '10 at 02:24
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Terence Johnson
66 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.84K Views
Creating a simple database environment in WordPress?

I have .csv file of store names/addresses/phone numbers that I want to convert into a database. Somewhere down the line this database will be large/elaborate (imagine entries similar to Yelp), but...

asked Feb 16 '10 at 07:27
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Aae
75 points

6 Votes
3 Answers
4.31K Views
Any good books about Market Size Analysis?

Do any of you have any recomendations of books, blogs, websites, textbooks, etc. that detail the process of sizing a market/sector of the US Economy? Online market size analysis' are available...

asked Feb 10 '10 at 11:33
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Eric Amzalag
818 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
3.64K Views
book name as Tag line for my website -- intellectual property issues

I am planning to use the name of a book (about 3-4 yrs old) as the tag line of my website. Its three words long. What are the IP issues here, how do i know if i can use it legally or if the author...

asked Feb 16 '10 at 10:44
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Syed
445 points

5 Votes
2 Answers
3.31K Views
Tool for reseller management

We have a web application we want to start selling on a per month basis. We have several resellers that we would like to have resell our application and make a margin on doing so. We don't want to...

asked Feb 10 '10 at 13:07
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Robin Vessey
8,394 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
2.64K Views
Is there such a thing as Privacy Insurance (for storing SSN/EINs)?

Part of my service includes storing social security numbers (SSNs) and employer identification numbers (EINs). I went through the proper protocol of setting up a separate server to store them,...

asked Feb 16 '10 at 13:37
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Yasmine
206 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
2.92K Views
Does it hurt to release often?

I'm a big believer of "release early, release often" but what's the limit? Our software Traditional - Desktop software We are new but already got many clients Updates requires about 15-30...

asked Feb 5 '10 at 06:57
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The Dictator
2,305 points

2 Votes
6 Answers
2.82K Views
Who uses FTP servers and how to reach them?

My last product, initially targeted at graphic designers, found a sweet spot with small business owners that struggled with FTP and who were looking for a drop-in replacement for their FTP server...

asked Feb 11 '10 at 02:30
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Ashmaurya
140 points

4 Votes
1 Answers
3.94K Views
Interviewing virtual teams

How is interviewing virtual team members different from ordinary staff hiring, if speaking about software outsourcing? When the personal meeting is impossible, what are the key actions that help...

asked Feb 16 '10 at 20:46
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Alena Shechkova
101 points

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.64K Views
"Segmenting" visitors to my sales website

I have made a simple sales web page to generate leads for my new business. One problem I think I have is that the current web page tries to be "all things to all visitors", when in actuality I...

asked Feb 5 '10 at 08:02
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Jorgem
749 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
3.09K Views
SaaS for Handling Sales, Demo Requests, Leads, Follow up emails

I know similar questions have already asked but I think we need something slightly different: Capturing user info from our website to the CRM directly via an API Sending welcome, followup emails...

asked Feb 11 '10 at 02:59
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The Dictator
2,305 points

4 Votes
2 Answers
2.32K Views
How to find advertisers for your site?

I want to set up a self-service advertising platform on my social website. I'm hoping that as web traffic picks up, users and advertisers will advertise on my site. How can I find more advertisers...

asked Feb 17 '10 at 07:29
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Pennyfiller13
86 points

7 Votes
5 Answers
3.18K Views
Any ideas for making money with QA sites?

I was reading this interesting Kokorin's article, and I started thinking, well, how could a QA site make money, if you are not using advertisement? Would your gather users information like...

asked Feb 17 '10 at 08:23
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Junior Mayhé
138 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.56K Views
Sponsorship of an open source project, how much to charge?

I have a reasonably successful open-source project ( www.mediabrowser.tv ). The website is seeing over 50K unique visitors a month. I would like to monetize some of this traffic by offering a...

asked Feb 17 '10 at 15:00
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Sam Saffron
432 points

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3 Answers
2.81K Views
Bootstrapped Startup - What Legal Forms to Put In place

I am looking for a co-founder now for a project that would love to get up and running. As an initial formality are there any documents out there that can outline in basic terms what each person is...

asked Feb 17 '10 at 15:56
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Aaron
124 points