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At which point of interview process you expect that candidate tries the product?

If you are hiring the second/third employee for a Web based SaaS company, then at which point of interview process you expect that candidate tries the product? Immediately? Before phone interview?...

asked Jul 1 '13 at 14:40
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User84686
139 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
5.9K Views
Best Kanban tool with GitHub integration?

Which Kanban software (preferably Saas) would you recommend that has integration with GitHub or BitBucket?

asked Apr 29 '14 at 13:42
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Christine White
17 points

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3 Answers
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What business model "frameworks" are available to help lead/manage a business?

As the FAQ for this site notes: Topics include financing, hiring employees, legal, marketing, sales, compensation plans, banking, payroll, benefits, and more. There are a lot of different but...

asked Oct 11 '12 at 13:53
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Randy Syring
116 points

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2 Answers
2.34K Views
Why isn't the franchising model popular online?

Why aren't there popular examples (actually I haven't seen any) of the franchise model applied to online services? E.g. franchise of a given service for local (different language) versions or...

asked Oct 26 '13 at 00:59
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Drabsv
36 points

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5 Answers
4.35K Views
Starting an apartment rental business

This is my first post on this forum (although I have been posting on a sister site - stackoverflow - for quite a while). I recently left the army and my brother and I are considering buying up a...

asked Oct 22 '10 at 09:58
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Rob
128 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.26K Views
Good results from CNET.com?

I am just now discovering CNET, a site that lets you apparently have software that you've developed available for download, plus a lot more. Have any software developers or software sellers on...

asked May 9 '11 at 11:05
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User6492
1,747 points

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3 Answers
3.03K Views
Advise on profit share for freelancing startup company

Three of us want to create a freelancing company and work via most popular freelancing sites nowadays. We've been working like this for 2 years and we need more people to help us. I see many such...

asked May 10 '12 at 17:07
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Ben Mcss
143 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.83K Views
Operational email policy

We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit. We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for...

asked May 4 '13 at 21:45
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Itai Sagi
337 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.27K Views
How to navigate vendors during tough cash flow stretches

Many startups at one point or another get into situations where they need to stretch vendor payments a bit to handle cash flow issues. We're in one of those situations right now and I'm trying to...

asked Dec 17 '09 at 05:48
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Tommy Maddox
156 points

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6 Answers
2.66K Views
Macs or PCs for employees?

When I started my company I bought myself a Mac because that is what I wanted. I have since purchased Macs for each new employee. I like having a standard platform and I thought that working with a...

asked Jul 28 '10 at 23:16
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Jason Cianchette
511 points

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3 Answers
2.57K Views
Do I have to have the company type in the name?

I'm creating a new startup in DC and corporating as an LLC. Do I need to have Company Name, LLC or am I free to name it just Company Name?

asked Apr 28 '11 at 05:04
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Marco Ceppi
126 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.82K Views
Start a business with a close friend or a family member?

Is that a good or a bad idea to start a business with someone you are really close?

asked Jul 6 '11 at 19:01
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Dervlap
28 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.51K Views
When to set up the LLC?

I am setting up a web site similar to this one. At what point should I set up the LLC for it? Right before i publish it?

LLC
asked Feb 7 '10 at 04:45
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Nick
16 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.55K Views
When startup people get together to work on their startups, they become motivated. How do we get more events like these happening?

One large problem for a lot of entrepreneurs, regardless of whether it's their first startup or their eighth, is motivation. We slowly become less motivated due to delays, or thinking about how...

asked May 12 '10 at 09:13
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Mark Bao
604 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
3.78K Views
How can you hire great developers for startups?

There is a lot of advice on how to hire great developers, which I don't think is quite relevant as far as startups are concerned. The reason why I am saying this is because we--as a startup in...

asked Apr 19 '11 at 11:23
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Graviton
871 points

3 Votes
8 Answers
5.74K Views
What is the easiest way to get a small business website online?

I'm a coder so I still do everything by hand: find a web hosting company, write the HTML by hand, layout in CSS, graphics in photoshop and/or stock photos, hack it all together, get the email forms...

asked Jun 24 '11 at 05:12
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User11476
141 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
4.04K Views
Example of Agreement (template) with Company for doing stuff in spare time

According to related topic: If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time? (and related : Intellectual Property and Side-Projects in...

asked Aug 12 '12 at 19:24
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Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
126 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
3.53K Views
Examples of reasonable equity split for sales mgr

I co-founded a BtoB technology startup about 2 years ago with one partner. In the first 1.5 years we Quit our corporate jobs and worked (mostly) full time Completed the majority of technical...

asked Jan 28 '10 at 07:40
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Fractal Guy
254 points

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2 Answers
2.06K Views
Customer Area for Software Downloads

We are selling software licenses and would like to allow our customers to login to our server with a username and password, and download their license keys, installers etc. Are there any PHP/MySQ...

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asked Dec 12 '10 at 22:45
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Paul
140 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
3.19K Views
I have a site and a company. How do I actually put the site as owned by this company?

Essentially, a site is just something independent that lives on the Web. How do I actually associate that site as being protected under legal liability of my LLC company? Does it just happen...

asked May 9 '11 at 13:56
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Genadinik
1,821 points