Questions

Looking at PEO (professional employee organization) providers - just wanted to get a sense for who else is out there other than TriNet. I only know about TriNet from Feld's AskTheVC blog:...

Employees Benefits Human Resources

asked Dec 13 '09 at 08:21

Sachin Agarwal
63 points

I'm currently designing a streaming music application for Facebook that will be built in Flash. In Photoshop, I've designed it to be exactly how I want it to look and have every feature I can think...

Outsourcing Facebook

asked Dec 13 '09 at 08:18

Travis
26 points

Dharmesh Shah made mention about talking people to people who are interested in your domain about your product before releasing your idea. he talks about it in this video over at mixergy. Excellent...

Getting Started Ideas Web 2.0 Competition

asked Dec 13 '09 at 06:55

Espinet
221 points

Can you please provide me pointers to websites where i can pick up some real challenging work and contribute? Regards, Siddharth

Technology

asked Dec 12 '09 at 18:50

Siddharth
88 points

It seems like most startups on Twitter use one of two strategies: 1) Broadcast links & information about the company. 2) Broadcast links & information about the industry related to the...

Marketing Sales Ideas Advertising Twitter

asked Dec 12 '09 at 16:50

Aaron Q
101 points

Is it legal (US/Canada) to accept donations if you're not a government registered non-profit organization? I've seen it on a couple of sites and was wondering what are the laws surrounding those...

Payments Legal

asked Dec 12 '09 at 13:34

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

As we start going to conferences in 2010, I'm curious what the right amount of swag per attendee should be. Obviously, not everyone wants stuff and I think there's some panache to having the cool,...

Marketing Swag Conferences

asked Dec 12 '09 at 12:15

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

I'd like to know how the world perceives our company and products. (One reasonable response to this question is: "Don't pay any attention, just do good things." However, let's suppose I want to...

Marketing Branding

asked Dec 12 '09 at 10:06

Dan
303 points

While many people talk about the new paradigm of outsourcing technical skills to India or China, there is much derision among technical blogs and people about business people getting into the job...

Website Technical Web Services

asked Dec 12 '09 at 09:28

Seth
21 points

So the question is pretty basic, what are good qualities in a business partner? As a young freelancer I want to expand my business into a much larger company and I know I will likely need to...

Co-Founder Partner Business Partnerships

asked Dec 12 '09 at 07:04

Montana Flynn
323 points

Here are my three - You do not require an invitation to make profits. ~ Dhirubhai Ambani Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly. ~ Dhirubhai Ambani Every street is paved...

Inspiration

asked Dec 12 '09 at 06:36

Arpit Tambi
1,050 points

Our company is investigating a couple of outsourcing companies and operating models and one that we're starting to lean towards is the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model with a firm that has some...

Outsourcing

asked Dec 12 '09 at 02:06

Phil R
81 points

I'm considering building an community over Pinax. The out-of-the-box functionality covers maybe 60% of what we need to do. We're more than happy to debug and support the base code set but need to...

License Copyright Open Source

asked Dec 11 '09 at 17:53

Puk
81 points

Would you go into business with someone who has asked you to come on board and help to get things launched, but has not yet decided how to compensate you, or whether to give you part ownership of...

Co-Founder Planning Business Plan Partnerships

asked Dec 11 '09 at 17:07

Jz199
59 points

I am in between blogging daily and running a new expansion to the blog where we expanded into a new social network, this means managing features, launches, marketing, PR etc. what are the best...

Management Blog Project Management Fulltime

asked Dec 11 '09 at 15:25

User1875
76 points

I have this open-source project I run (http://www.mediabrowser.tv ) a few months ago I posted on the business of software forum and my blog that I need to find a way to monetize it. Since, I have...

Legal NDA

asked Dec 11 '09 at 14:53

Sam Saffron
432 points

Is it just me or do: @yahoo, gmail, hotmail, accounts not look professional? I can't imagine cost being an excuse. Most hosting providers include email with the site.

Marketing Email

asked Dec 11 '09 at 14:28

Jeff O
6,169 points

Currently, I am listening to Dharmesh's interview on Mixergy.com. I really like making websites, made tones of them, but to get them off the ground, is what kills me. Right now, I have a small...

Marketing Venture Capital Advertising Investment

asked Dec 11 '09 at 13:08

Bhargav Patel
16 points

I have one product I started developing earlier this year which I haven't touched in several months now. At some point I began to realize that as a single developer, I'm simply not prepared to...

Software

asked Dec 11 '09 at 08:36

Steve Wortham
287 points

For 2010, I think it's finally time to get a bookkeeper. We're doing it in-house now, which means that it's always behind schedule and not as accurate as I'd like. In an ideal world, we'd like...

Accounting Bookkeeping

asked Dec 11 '09 at 03:40

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points