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3 Votes
2 Answers
2.45K Views
When hiring a freelancer, should I lump together related tasks or spread them out?

I'm building a web app that will require API integration with numerous platforms like Flickr, Tumblr, etc. It's relatively straight forward stuff--I just need to allow users to import their various...

asked Dec 21 '12 at 07:24
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Richard
357 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.35K Views
How does one acknowledge fault with customers?

I almost (ALMOST ) permanently overwrote the only config file (e.g. no backup) that contained an encryption key for user logins. This would have disabled my clients' ability to login to my site and...

asked Dec 21 '12 at 04:27
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Ray023
198 points

0 Votes
2 Answers
3.57K Views
getting reviews on a new website?

I am starting a price comparison website of a niche product category. when I go live I want reviews of the products and the vendors to exists. I see a lot of reviews on yelp and other review sites,...

asked Dec 21 '12 at 01:40
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Stanford Sequeira
42 points

5 Votes
2 Answers
2.01K Views
VP wants to resign

My boyfriend and i started an export company 2 years ago. I own 50% of the company. He holds a position as a President/CEO. We do not have a lot of assets but we have quite a few of liabilities...

asked Dec 21 '12 at 01:26
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Cynthia M Karp
26 points

0 Votes
1 Answers
1.86K Views
Sell Shares in a retail startup

I have a 50% stake in a retail online start-up that has been in business more than a year. I got accepted to business school and start in August 2013. My partner claims that I will not be motivated...

asked Dec 20 '12 at 11:06
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Salesmanager
1 point

7 Votes
2 Answers
2.5K Views
Need to pick a title as the first technical employee of a startup

I will be the first technical employee of an early-stage startup. I don't have a ton of experience (so something like CTO would look bad and misrepresent me) but I will be doing all the software...

asked Dec 20 '12 at 06:33
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Robamaton
143 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.82K Views
Equity for First paid Tech-employee in a not-profitable financed Startup

I'm trying to be as specific as possible here: We are a Startup 5 months on the go with three co-founders. Since none of us can truly code we need to employ our first Web-developer and we have...

asked Dec 20 '12 at 03:08
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Clemens Kemper
16 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
1.61K Views
How to learn about marketing in a new market?

I make games on iOS, Android and Amazon. Although it is already bad on iOS and Android, on Amazon the results are so bad that if they were worse it would be negative. Although my company needs to...

asked Dec 20 '12 at 02:35
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Speeder
106 points

4 Votes
7 Answers
3.02K Views
Advertising for my ecommerce startup

We are an ecommerce startup into online services in India and are looking for ways to advertise ourselves. Is google adword or facebook ad a good choice? Also does getting big time into social...

asked Dec 19 '12 at 15:25
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Bhasky
24 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.31K Views
How to get long time clients

We are a startup web development venture based in India,we have some one time clients from e-commerce industry but they will not benefit us in the long run.So we are planning to showcase the work...

asked Dec 19 '12 at 15:05
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Manu Kuriakose
36 points

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.99K Views
Is it OK to use a shortened first name as a professional?

My name is Amir Khan but instead of Amir I want use Am Khan on my email accounts, online presence, and that's what I want people to call me by and on everything legal I will of course use my full...

asked Dec 19 '12 at 10:55
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Ariel
138 points

0 Votes
1 Answers
2.7K Views
How should I protect myself from intellectual property theft before I pitch this game to Scopely?

(For the impatient, the main question is at the bottom of this text.) I was reading this article and a couple of others about Scopely, a game development company responsible for the creation of...

asked Dec 19 '12 at 10:15
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Baptzmoffire
3 points

4 Votes
4 Answers
2.32K Views
How to deal with client's expectations on the price of services?

My partner and I have started our own company a few months ago and things are going okay. One of the main problems we're facing is that we're having a hard time communicating the price of our...

asked Dec 19 '12 at 05:57
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Gazillion
121 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
3.35K Views
Where can I find iOS developers willing to join an early-stage startup?

I'm co-founding a startup in London and we're looking to find an iOS developer interested in working with us to create an early prototype. I'm the technical co-founder, while the other founders...

asked Dec 19 '12 at 00:11
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A Wonder
6 points

1 Votes
4 Answers
3.42K Views
I have an idea that I am almost sure that it will be successful but no time to do it

I live in Athens, Greece. I have an idea that is really simple to do. It just needs a blog, a twitter account and a facebook page for support. The problem is that i don't have the time to work for...

asked Dec 18 '12 at 20:53
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Kostas
9 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.44K Views
Best practices for finding customers via email

We want to create a start-up, it offers computational services to biotechs for drug discovery. We want to find customers out of our country. Besides options such as traveling, or attending forums,...

asked Dec 18 '12 at 17:40
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Flow
114 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
2.6K Views
What is considered "generous-stock-options" for a start-up company in its early days?

We are a young startup, founded by 3 members about a year and a half ago, and recently closed a seed-stage investment round. We are about to hire our first 3 employees, 2 tech, 1...

asked Dec 18 '12 at 17:25
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Founder
11 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
2.39K Views
Projecting Sales for Web Dev Business Plan

I am putting together a business plan for my Web Development startup. Cost of materials, marketing, etc. are the easy (fixed or one-time cost) parts - but I am trying to figure out how to create a...

asked Dec 18 '12 at 09:00
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Itamar
116 points

1 Votes
4 Answers
2.38K Views
Making a sale that's over the customers budget

I have been working on an offer for a software project, requested by a customer. I'm pretty sure that the price of the offer will be over their budget. The price itself is nothing special, it is...

asked Dec 18 '12 at 06:23
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Bertvan
108 points

1 Votes
4 Answers
2.26K Views
Exchanging newsletter mentions and tweets with other startups?

What do you think about exchanging exposure with other startups which has users that are your potential clients? For example you have a time management app, other startup has a note taking app,...

asked Dec 18 '12 at 01:57
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Virgil
8 points