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3 Votes
4 Answers
2.62K Views
What if you didn't START lean?

I have successfully launched a startup. It is a niche school management system for Montessori Schools. It's profitable but doesn't produce a lot of income (translated: can't quit my day job). My...

asked Mar 26 '11 at 03:57
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Keyton Weissinger
126 points

27 Votes
11 Answers
11K Views
Hourly rate - client wants invoices from other companies to prove my rate

I am being asked by a client to provide invoices from other clients showing that I was paid the hourly rate that I want to charge them. In other words, Client A wants to see my invoices to Client B...

asked Mar 26 '11 at 02:38
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Bob Baddeley
238 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.86K Views
How can I check the income of a German company registered as GmbH (Limited Liability)?

In many countries, the income of companies is public and accessible. My question is whether this is correct also for Germany, and where I could look up such information?

asked Mar 25 '11 at 20:17
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David
1,567 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
5.09K Views
Small Business Internal Wiki Software?

I am interested in running an internal wiki at my small business. The content, to begin with, would list out major job functions/descriptions as well as policies for the company. I imagine it would...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 09:13
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Skaz
254 points

6 Votes
5 Answers
2.59K Views
What role do you see QR codes playing in marketing?

Those funny square codes seem to be popping up everywhere. From the pages of USA Today as a hyper-link to news pictures, in the airport to download reading material after watching a bank...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 08:45
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Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

6 Votes
3 Answers
2.89K Views
What would you spend 15 minutes a day of "Social Media" on?

I work in the B2B market. Many of our clients are owned and managed by the entrepreneur or owner. These are not high-tech companies. They make things, they manufacture, they develop, they produce...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 07:50
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Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

4 Votes
4 Answers
4.95K Views
Are there any Open Source Digital Signature Solutions that would Comply with Various US Regulations?

We are interested in using digital signature in our extremely paper intensive world. However, we need the signatures to be valid digital signatures. Are there open source solutions available that...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 07:03
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Scott
468 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.88K Views
How do I setup an investor-friendly (Angel or VC) corporate structure?

I've set up two LLC's and an S-corp myself before for companies that I own and run; but this new idea I have is bigger and I will be pursuing investor involvement for it. I'm trying to keep my...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 06:35
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Nick
1,171 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
2.53K Views
Growing strategies: starting free and small, or going all in?

I was just reading a thread which I cannot find again, and it brought up a question. People were advising this guy not to develop his idea 100% perfectly, but to start small, and make it free,...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 04:37
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Aslyesnow
214 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
3.41K Views
Why incorporate in the US? What about Bermuda and other tax-advantageous countries?

Basically, why should one incorporate in the US? I'm interested in three cases: 1 - Most of the revenue and employees are in the US. 2 - Most of the employees are in the US, but the revenues...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:41
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J Delage
277 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.38K Views
Project In A Week / development bootcamp

Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice? The idea behind it is to get away from the...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:21
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Tim S
111 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
2.77K Views
What could the application startup color.com actually spend $41MM on?

Forget about whether this means we're in a bubble or all the talk about whether this was smart or not, but a new application company (social photo sharing) raised $41MM. They spent $500k on the...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 01:32
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Michael Pryor
2,250 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.27K Views
Startup Project

So we are getting a team together at the moment and starting the R&D of a new project. We want to set up an agreement that lays out our share of the revenue of the product if it was to ever...

asked Mar 25 '11 at 01:00
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Slandau
203 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.68K Views
How can so many travel meta-search engines exist?

Seems like there are dozens (or hundreds) of travel meta-search engines like fly.com, Kayak, TravelPost, etc. I can't imagine any of the "big" sites like Expedia, Travelocity, etc allowing their...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 23:14
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Cbmeeks
135 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
4.28K Views
Article writing service?

Anybody has recommendations for good article writing services for SEO purposes? Especially the one that actually writes for real people and not just churn out the article out of a random word...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 21:59
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Adib
293 points

5 Votes
3 Answers
2.18K Views
Tips on where to check if a market is growing?

I would like to know if you guys have any tips on where someone can see for example, how's the wine market doing or the toys market doing world wide or US only. I have been looking around but I...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 19:03
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Diogo Da Silva
36 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
2.92K Views
Odds of Finding Sponsor/Investor for New Website

I recently launched a website for developers (blackbeltcoder.com ). It's a free site that will employ an advertising business model. I'm very pleased with the rate of growth in the just over three...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 11:56
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Jonathan Wood
120 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
3.06K Views
Hire a College Intern

How should one go about trying to offer internship to students at XYZ university? And is it even possible for a startup company? Some sample conditions that would be under...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 07:21
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Mat Banik
325 points

5 Votes
3 Answers
2.89K Views
Doing demos for unqualified leads

I get a lot of leads and I only want to do demos for qualified people. By qualified, they have to have access to $100k or more in capital. Before, I was putting them in our sandbox (software),...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 06:47
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Sparagi
346 points

6 Votes
5 Answers
2.99K Views
Cold calling clients

I have a launched a very unique product for healthcare billing companies. It is unique in the way that it is operated. I am doing AdWords and SEO tactics, but do you think cold calling works? I am...

asked Mar 24 '11 at 06:12
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Kpo
131 points