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How many employees do we need?

My co-founder and I are in the very early stages of launching our website. My day job is in finance, a highly-intense industry, to say the least. I very rarely have downtime during the day and our...

asked Nov 10 '11 at 12:45
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User522962
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How legally binding is a pre-incorporated agreement?

Our startup was founded by 3 people and is in it's final stages of development. One of the founders wants to pull out but keep their 33%. We have a one page document signed by the three of us...

asked Mar 30 '13 at 20:41
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Rangerrick337
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Business Mailing List Generation

We have been approached by a service offering to construct a mailing campaign. According to them they're able to find practically all relevant businesses in a given town, verify the addresses and...

asked May 6 '11 at 05:47
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Garet Claborn
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How do I calculate conversion rate when users can login from the landing page?

I know conversion rate is calculated as (signups/visitors)*100 but my landing page is also used as the page that users login to the site. Therefore, some of the visitors will be existing users...

asked Jun 2 '11 at 14:13
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Ben
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How do Google Trends and Correlate make money for Google?

I'm just curious, what the business model is for providing these data mining services for free to everyone? http://www.google.com/trends http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/

asked Sep 3 '11 at 13:03
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Siamii
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Recommended Business Structure for Group of Part Time App Builders

A few friends and I have started building small apps and WordPress plugins in our spare time, and I'm wondering what would be the best business structure (LLC, S-Corp, etc) as I think it's almost...

asked Feb 20 '13 at 06:14
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Jeremiah Prummer
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Is using BrainTree in this manner PCI-compliant?

According to the instructions on BrainTree's website, in order to integrate their payment solution with my Python application, all I need to do is: Sign Up Server Side Integration Client Side...

asked Nov 26 '13 at 16:44
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Nathan Osman
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Examples of companies that have created a platform for other companies

So far I have come up with the following: Apple (through Apps Store) Microsoft (allowing anyone to develop working software on their platform), creating a virtual monopoly) There could be other...

asked Feb 27 '10 at 19:37
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David
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When someone should focus on local market or go for the big catch?

Hello there is an old saying that says "you should better be first in your village rather second( or thirth or fourth) in your town". My question is something that a lot of people think (maybe...

asked Sep 10 '11 at 03:46
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Nikolai
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Can I run an IT services company online, without having a physical presence?

I am located in India. I currently have a full time job and due to financial constraints, I need to continue this. I intend to start a firm that will provide Web Development Services. I need to run...

asked Apr 11 '12 at 16:56
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Gentrobot
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How to market an online gallery?

I have recently launched a new gallery selling my London artwork. I don't mind saying that the problem now is that I am unsure how to push the site forward and begin making sales. I know about...

asked Jan 30 '13 at 21:38
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Iconic Digital
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How to promote a desktop Facebook app about music to get alpha testers?

Possible Duplicate: I made a product, now how can I find customers? I built a prototype for a desktop music app that will keep you updated with music. It has real-time music aggregation, and a...

asked Feb 24 '12 at 08:48
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Meir
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General partnership or joint venture with global online company?

I want to establish a partnership with a company abroad that offers online services through their portal in few countries worldwide. I would like to leverage their online platform to provide...

asked Dec 3 '10 at 08:26
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Mmiesi
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How should I start building a social network site?

Early I asked a question about starting a social network company. Thanks for people who answered my question. I learned that I might implement the ideas first then start a company. But how...

asked Jun 2 '11 at 16:25
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Yc Wang
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Equity distribution among Co-Founders Pre-Money

I teamed up with a student at school to help him launch a new business. The student I teamed up with has been running a legacy company for the past two years, which I am also involved in. The new...

asked Jul 9 '11 at 03:35
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Dem
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Need help structuring equity for well qualified partner wannabes

I know there have been related posts to this question which I've already read, but can someone please help me specifically with this? We found some high profile techies/developers in a neighboring...

asked Dec 14 '11 at 18:23
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Newbie
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What is the fastest method to create the current, trendy websites (static 'n' dynamic)?

What is the fastest method to create the current, trendy websites (static 'n' dynamic)? I have seen website being built from scratch, and from a pre-defined template. I am little curious to know...

asked Sep 24 '12 at 02:07
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Jeet7seven
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Tracking all work/items-delivered are invoiced

We are a small business and use Xero.com (which is an accounting system without ERP functionality). What we have found that we have at times lost track of items requested by the customer, and have...

asked Feb 10 '13 at 05:57
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G18c
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Is a LLP a suitable structure for a small business with silent partners?

I'm evaluating whether structuring my small cafe business as a company or a LLP would be better. I will be the manager of the business, running it on a day to day basis and I will have 1 or 2...

asked Nov 5 '13 at 14:12
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Anonymous
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recommend free email client for synching desktop/laptop/blackberry

looking for recommendations for email eco-system allowing small-business to: let users log into email from desktop, viewing multiple email domains, and reply to each where the outgoing email...

asked Aug 29 '11 at 07:21
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Tim8691
17 points