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How should I calculate the number of hours of work during business traveling?

I am a contractor. The company that I am working needs me go to China for a week to 10 days. Currently, I only get hourly paid and have 40 hours per week. My question is that whether I will get...

asked Mar 29 '13 at 14:25
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Marco
130 points

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1 Answers
2.19K Views
Unsolicited requests from prospective advisory board members

Have many startups received unsolicited requests from people to serve as advisory board members? Are those types of unsolicited requests usually accepted, as long as the person who wants to be an...

asked Jul 8 '13 at 09:07
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User6492
1,747 points

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Help select the winning logo

I am running a logo design contest for an Australian bookkeeping startup. We have narrowed the contest entries down to 8 final submissions and are now seeking feedback from people on what they...

asked Aug 18 '14 at 03:09
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Garysvpa
53 points

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How to Manage two companies with diffferent investors?

I work for my father and his partner for one Home Health (company A) in city C which has been running for 5 years now. My father, me and a few other people have setup another Home Health company B...

asked Jul 15 '11 at 06:25
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Faisal Ali
11 points

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2.19K Views
Small post-project change. To charge or not to charge?

A few months after completing a website, a client is requesting a small change (literally changing one word to another on the site). I'm tempted to do this 10 second change for free, except that...

asked Jun 2 '12 at 00:44
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Mirov
384 points

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What if twitter name is already taken

I am a technical guy and had one concept. I have developed the concept into the web-application. I have secured domain name as well. Today, I came to know that the twitter name(same as my domain...

asked Aug 16 '12 at 00:39
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Saurabh
103 points

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How much equity should startup Independent contractors get?

So, A friend of mine has a brand created for a game, characters, story, the works. He also a rough idea about how the game should be which looked pretty solid. He took out about $40,000 loan and...

asked Aug 25 '13 at 03:43
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Brybam
103 points

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Which eCommerce platform would you recommend?

I'm creating my first online store and don't want to reinvent the wheel by developing a custom website. There looks like a ton of free and paid services online that I can use to sell. Is there...

asked Feb 4 '14 at 14:01
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Orval D.
1 point

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Entire sales process when selling to enterprise clients?

What does a full sales cycle look like when selling a SaaS solution to enterprise clients?Here is what I think is how it works: Try to find a decision maker at the company. Try to contact that...

asked May 22 '14 at 18:28
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Sheryl Chung
4 points

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How much would a company pay to be a mobile app sponsor?

Nearing the end of our mobile application development, we are looking to get some initial funding in the form of a sponsorship. Our application would hit both iPhone and Android app stores. The...

asked Dec 12 '12 at 06:25
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Brian
1 point

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Software distributor or Sales Agent which one makes more sense?

A company (which consist of one person) wants to sell my software (underour brand name and license agreement) but wants to do installation and 1st level support to the customer but doesn't want to...

asked Feb 18 '11 at 04:22
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Stacey
484 points

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2.77K Views
Will same keywords located in different ad groups under a single campaign bid with each other?

I have an Adwords campaign, which consists of 2 ad groups. And there are a few keywords that exist in both ad groups. My question is, when a user types in those keywords, will this cause...

asked Oct 1 '11 at 17:12
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Graviton
871 points

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'Startup' enterprise software application, question about ownership between investors and developers

Over the past four years, my business partner and I founded a company that is planning on selling B2B software. We have been paying the developers to create the software, thus keeping full...

asked Apr 11 '12 at 01:07
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User17410
5 points

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An 'any software you want' approach to marketing?

I want to start a software business. It's probably been said a million times before on this forum, and software start-up's being in such abundance is one of the reasons for this question. I don't...

asked Aug 16 '12 at 01:40
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Dee Mac
123 points

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Web startup - possible legal issues with crawling content from other sites

We are building a website which will aggregate listings from various other websites. I would build my website to add extra search filters and other useful tools around this content that the other...

asked Mar 15 '13 at 17:05
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Arahant
116 points

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Non technical founders: how do you select your technology stack?

I'm a non-technical founder who is going to be using contractors on ODesk to build the MVP. How do I decide on which technologies to pick?- PHP andMySQL- Rails and PostGres- Node.jsEtc.How you...

asked Mar 29 '14 at 16:45
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John Stinnett
4 points

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What are cool gift exchange ideas have you encountered for small startups?

In my offices, books have the tendency to get groans (usually the thick ones), MMORPG game cards can be quite addictive and gets some folks bleary eyed for weeks, while everyone else wishes for an...

asked Nov 23 '09 at 13:25
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Alex Lam
699 points

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Legal advice for handling money when serving two sided market

My services handle two types of users: (A) and (B), where (B) are in fact the users of (A). I act as the mediator between (A) and (B). My website provides marketing services which facilitates...

asked May 14 '12 at 23:06
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S. Francis
21 points

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how to get money to open a retail store?

I am on optometrist and want to start my own business and stop working for others. In my world, the owner of the optical pays the doctor (me) a salary and makes a killing on my labor in the form of...

asked Mar 1 '13 at 06:28
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Kacalapy
129 points

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In Google's post-penguin update, which is most important for startups to focus on: SEO, content marketing, branding or social media?

Which one of these should startups focus on for the most impact: SEO Content marketing Branding Social media marketing The biggest downside of focusing on SEO first is that almost every month...

asked Mar 29 '14 at 18:57
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Angelina Hall
2 points