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3 Votes
4 Answers
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Interviewing sales people: what do you do to check their claims without asking for past W2s?

One of the favorite parts of my job is to recruit people for my company. From experience I have come to realize that no matter how busy you are, outsourcing recruiting and hiring is very...

asked Aug 25 '11 at 07:01
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Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.86K Views
Best Email Services for a Maturing Startup

I run a small but very successful startup, that has been around for 13 months now. We are a 10 person team, but are rely on an aging Exchange 2003 server for our email, calendar, and contact...

asked Oct 11 '12 at 06:21
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Cdd
46 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.79K Views
My wife and I are looking to start 3 seperate businesses, all with different products and services

Should I form a parent company to keep it simple with administrative and taxes? One business is an online retailer, another is a niche sports studio, and another is a media agency. My train of...

asked Jul 1 '13 at 02:40
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Ohio Johnny
16 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
5.63K Views
Hiring a quality UX/UI designer for our startup?

We're have a tough time finding any good designers to hire for our startup. Most of the good designers are usually more interested in working at VC funded startups in the valley or more established...

asked Jun 10 '15 at 09:55
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Keenan Bachelder
20 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
3.16K Views
New job to bootstrap startup?

Context: I started a SAAS based platform for small and medium sized companies around a year back. To save some time I intentionally took this underpaid job close to my home. I have successfully...

asked Mar 2 '11 at 23:56
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User8226
197 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
7.33K Views
Is a lawyer needed to draft an NDA?

Do I need a lawyer to write up a non-disclosure agreement? If so how much should this cost on average? It is a small company and it would be beneficial for them if I did not bring this to other...

asked May 2 '12 at 04:45
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Peter Chapman
16 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
2.86K Views
Should I open up my app's data so anyone can use it?

I've built a site for climbers - a worldwide, user editable guidebook for climbers. Recently, I've been toying with the idea of making all of the data that has been submitted to my site open...

asked Nov 21 '09 at 02:40
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Codebeef
148 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
4.98K Views
e-commerce store using wordpress

I am considering setting up a e-commerce store for a friend's retailing shop. What I am interested in is a solution that is easy to maintain in terms of administration (insert new products, new...

asked Apr 4 '11 at 01:08
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Alex G
16 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.51K Views
Have an idea. How to start?

I actually have a very nice idea in IT field. It is a large online game which is easy to monetize in case of popularity. I am also a programmer myself so I generally know how to start with my idea....

asked Jul 1 '13 at 04:40
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Artem Moskalev
118 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.89K Views
Web development - Outsource or go in-house?

All, A non-coder friend of mine based in India is considering developing a portal for his startup. His is a web-based idea and the portal will be his source of revenues. Since he can't code,...

asked Dec 5 '11 at 16:47
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Rokstr Dli
36 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
5.27K Views
Should a beta version be free, or come at a premium?

My natural inclination for pre-release software is that it should be free. You're trying to get people to try it out, knowing that the product is incomplete and potentially more buggy than you'd...

asked Feb 24 '14 at 23:15
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rbwhitaker
3,465 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.23K Views
How bad is it to have an unfortunate acronym?

We've all heard the sad story of ExpertsExchange.com, where an unintended misreading turned out to be quite unfortunate for them. What about if the company/product/domain name is fine, but if...

asked Nov 25 '10 at 16:27
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Avi D
140 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.33K Views
startup credit card issues

So here's the issue, I need to accept credit cards on my site, but I don't want to go through a merchant service, I want to go through visa/ amex/etc directly (it's a long story..). Now, to even...

asked Apr 9 '11 at 08:04
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Aslyesnow
214 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.27K Views
Social Network Idea

I have an idea of a social network site. I think that technically I can make this idea as a facebook application, but commercially speaking, what are the disadvantages and the advantages of doing...

asked Jun 5 '11 at 07:07
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Daniel
24 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.51K Views
Lead Generation as a Business partner.

A bit of background…. I have worked for IT consulting firms (B2B) for the past 8 years. More recently with Firms that are business a partners with major vendors. I have held just about every...

asked Aug 8 '11 at 22:51
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Morons
16 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.52K Views
Why aren't there many female entrepreneurs?

Its a striking fact that the ratio of male to female entrepreneurs is very low although the ratio is getting bigger day by day in good income countries, medium and small etc. What can be done or...

asked Oct 5 '11 at 07:31
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Himanshu Prasad
51 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.26K Views
How to choose a Ads solution for website or mobile apps that uses the profiled data?

We have a website and some mobile apps which generate significant number of daily views (say 10M). The main feature of these projects is that, in most cases, you know a lot about users interests,...

asked Nov 7 '12 at 03:27
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Lukasz Dziedzia
16 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
2.95K Views
What have you used to build a business intelligence dashboard?

We're putting together a dashboard that highlights some key metrics (helpdesk performance, website performance, distribution, reach, cost centres, digital asset volume, etc) do any of you have...

asked Dec 24 '09 at 02:13
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Joseph Fung
1,542 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.3K Views
Is there a service like chargify that will do recurring billing, but allows variable monthly charges?

This is a hypothetical question, but say I run an email hosting service and I want to charge my customer a fee per month for each email account that he has set up. Let's say that the email accounts...

asked Oct 22 '10 at 09:27
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Jack
24 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
2.78K Views
It's ok to launch a software product when Beta testing is not fully finished?

I'm having trouble finishing the Beta testing period of my software product. In particular it hangs/crashes in some laptops with low to moderate memory and speed capabilities. This problem is hard...

asked Apr 15 '12 at 16:04
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Nestor Sanchez A
690 points