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70 Votes
14 Answers
14.9K Views
How to start a business and not destroy your marriage?

Although the question has the word "marriage" in the title, it is really about any most important relationship in a founder's life, be it husband/wife, fiancee, boyfriend/girlfriend, partner or...

asked Jan 14 '10 at 09:25
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Steve Wilkinson
2,744 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
2.7K Views
Best way to build community for this online debate site?

I am in the process of reaching out to various groups on linkedin/digg/reddit/twitter to find participants. Anybody have input on my idea, or advice on the best way to organically grow this...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 18:36
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Robbie
40 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
3.06K Views
What are the best resources for registering users?

We are a gift baskets company and part of our business is through our web catalog, which is custom-built in WordPress. I've heard some people saying WordPress is not secure and we should not keep...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 17:33
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Kulpreet Singh
56 points

1 Votes
7 Answers
3.15K Views
"What does your website do?" My answer is

Suppose you are an angel investor and I want you to invest my website, you may ask, "Tell me, what does your website do?" I answer, "My website is a platform. You can seek for people to do...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 13:06
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Steven
1 point

0 Votes
3 Answers
2.42K Views
I am the founder of a website.What is my business's core compentency?

I have created a novel and very useful website. Now it is undergoing internal testing. It is a time trading platform. You spend your time doing something(can be anything) for others and get paid....

asked Jan 13 '10 at 12:42
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Steven
1 point

5 Votes
5 Answers
4.15K Views
I am the founder of a website. If I go to meet an angel investor,what questions will he probably ask me?

I have developed a website. It is under internal testing. My website is a platform. You can ask for people to do something for you and you pay them; on the other hand, you can do something for...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 12:22
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Steven
1 point

1 Votes
2 Answers
3.26K Views
How to assess the potential value of a website before its formal release

I have developed a website and now it is under internal testing. What does my website do? On the one hand, if you want someone to do something for you, you can use my website, and you need to pay...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 12:16
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Steven
1 point

1 Votes
4 Answers
2.95K Views
Twitter subscription spam

Personally I've no idea about how to use twitter for marketing other than opening a twitter account and posting links about our product. Today I was looking one of our competitors account there...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 09:41
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The Dictator
2,305 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
3.14K Views
Would like some feedback on JIRA, Intervals, Unfundle, and other bug/issue tracking packaged

I would like to get your opinion on bug/issue tracking packages. In my last software dev company we used JIRA with one of the flavors of Subversion. That was in 2007, so a lot has changed since...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 06:07
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Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points

7 Votes
3 Answers
3.18K Views
What should you monitor about your company in social media?

There are various tools and advice about what you should be monitoring in "social media," meaning Twitter searches, blog searches, etc.. What kinds of things should you monitor? Are there broad...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 06:00
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Jason
16,231 points

4 Votes
6 Answers
4.83K Views
What do I need to know about hiring an intern?

My bootstrapped startup (Textaurant ) needs some help with market research. Since we're so close to two of my alma maters (undergrad is ~1 mile, grad is ~5 miles), I figured I would reach out to...

asked Jan 13 '10 at 03:10
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Josh Sam Bob
1,578 points

5 Votes
6 Answers
3.74K Views
What if a big company copies my idea after my website goes public?

I have developed a website. If I go to meet an angel investor, he may ask, "Do you think your website is innovative?" I can answer "Yes." Then he may ask,"Suppose your website is innovative, what...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 23:14
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Steven
1 point

4 Votes
3 Answers
4.33K Views
What is the best online payment processor, moneybookers, Google Checkout or paypal?

I have developed a website and I want to integrate an online payment system with my website. What is the best online payment tool, moneybookers, Google Checkout or paypal?

asked Jan 12 '10 at 22:53
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Steven
1 point

4 Votes
2 Answers
2.13K Views
Should I sell parts of my program also or not?

I am selling an utility that is consisting from 5 different modules. This modules are thematicaly connected, but could also exist independently. My utility is $24.95. I was wondering if I should...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 22:48
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Spiro
105 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
2.75K Views
How to get an opportunity to meet an angel investor or business mentor for free?

How? Is there a smart or efficient way?

asked Jan 12 '10 at 22:32
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Steven
1 point

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.4K Views
uISV in components business? Is it any good?

I was wondering how good is selling components (.NET, ...) for uISV compared to selling program(s). When I look at the prices of components compared with prices of programs we sell ... Than again...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 22:27
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Spiro
105 points

0 Votes
3 Answers
2.41K Views
How Do You Work Out Postal Charge?

If you are selling physical goods, you have to factor in postage charge in your product price calculation. What are the formula one can use to calculate the postage charge?

asked Jan 12 '10 at 19:55
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Graviton
871 points

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.48K Views
How to decide when to reject an order

A month ago we (a group of four IT people) founded a small company here in germany. Two of us still finishing up college and myself and the other collegue have a full time job on a big european IT...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 19:21
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Henrik P.
113 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
2.46K Views
At what stage should a start-up start worrying about scalability?

Background: For the past few weeks I have been working on the minimum viable product for a hosted CMS idea that I have and for the note I'm not looking for any opinions on the CMS industry or the...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 14:09
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Dheer Gupta
191 points

7 Votes
2 Answers
3.49K Views
What skills to look for in a technical cofounder?

I am an aspiring entrepreneur, with experience in retail industry. I have an idea to create a web based company with web 2.0 + ecommerce features. The idea is new and I know that it would work in...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 13:31
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Startupmantra
60 points