Getting Started Questions

These are the basics you'll need if you're looking to be an entrepreneur and start marketing yourself.

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2 Answers
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How to find developers to use my product?

We are developing back-end web services for app developers. We developed Windows Phone 7 client and working on clients for other platforms. How can we reach developers (especially Windows Phone 7)...

asked Feb 13 '12 at 01:06
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App Dev Ca
9 points

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1 Answers
2.27K Views
Pre-launch Marketing Strategy?

We're in the process of launching a "social contest and campaign builder" tech start-up, months away from launching in fact. What pre-launch strategies have worked for your start-up? What are the...

asked Feb 17 '12 at 05:47
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Mike Barwick
133 points

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7 Answers
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How to find a way to help translating the site with multi-language?

The user interface for my site is multi-language supported. But some of words are just translated from Google. But they phrases are inaccurate. I want to know if there are any online services or...

asked Feb 5 '12 at 02:51
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Anlai
375 points

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3 Answers
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How does one pay back an investor?

I am starting a fashion retail business this year, and I need a total initial investment of $300,000. I don't know about financial issues regarding shares, equity and dividend. I'm currently...

asked Feb 7 '12 at 16:13
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Mimi
4 points

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1 Answers
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Advice for early-stage hiring?

I am the CEO of a rapidly growing startup and our growth has begun to outpace our resources as a 3 person organization. So we have begun looking around for people to hire, both as programmers, as...

asked Feb 8 '12 at 07:55
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Jason
279 points

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1 Answers
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how important is the .com TLD?

Possible Duplicate: what's more important - .com or name? I am in the very early stages of what I hope to be a very profitable company. It is solely an online presence (think Digg, twitter,...

asked Feb 8 '12 at 14:57
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Joe
99 points

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At what point should I register my business?

I've just finished building my first project (or rather, the first I've brought to completion) and am ready to start finding some early adopters. At what point is it important that I register my...

asked Feb 9 '12 at 14:11
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Steven Surowiec
106 points

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3 Answers
1.66K Views
Mother company in the US or in Europe

My question concerns a new business: I belong to a team or software developers. Up until now, we've each done our "own thing", as self-employed workers. Altogether, our business takes place in the...

asked Jan 27 '12 at 22:03
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Chu
21 points

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Starting a startup with no real industry experience

Lets say you have just graduated from uni/college and you have a wonderful idea which you think you wanted to do. You know programming but you don't know the relevant skills to make it happen {...

asked Jan 28 '12 at 22:11
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Itsaboutcode
101 points

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1 Answers
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non-resident Online Business setup

I live in New Zealand and I am looking to start an online website sourcing and selling products within the USA via drop-shipping methods. This part of the process is underway. However, I understand...

asked Feb 1 '12 at 17:07
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Lawrence.
11 points

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2 Answers
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How do I draft a letter of intent?

I have an idea I am working on that I believe will be useful. I have been told that verbally several times. Rather than spend money on developing it to completion, I want my proposed...

asked Feb 2 '12 at 18:35
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Oo The Nigerian
11 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
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Freelance work whilst in Full Time employment and Taxes

I am a Software Developer and I live and work for a company in the UK and pay PAYE taxes and NI Contributions through my wages for this jobs salary. I am looking to start working on a couple of...

asked Jan 19 '12 at 00:16
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Penfold
111 points

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6 Answers
3.79K Views
Startups and full time jobs

I've come over from Stack Overflow. I'm currently working full time as a web site developer, and like many people have got a bit fed up of working for someone else and want to set my own business...

asked Jan 22 '12 at 04:51
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Space Beers
168 points

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1 Answers
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Is it a good practice to receive money for every service my company offer?

We have a start-up company in which we offer some educational services. Some of our services are free to use but most of them including : online quizes, consulting and blah blah blah. They can...

asked Dec 28 '11 at 23:32
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101 points

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Doing the coding on my own then outsourcing the design

I had a free couple of weeks, so I wrote the PHP script for a website that I had in mind. To be honest, I am not the best - I am just an amateur. I have read a couple of books (o'reilly) and that...

asked Dec 30 '11 at 22:59
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Kraken
133 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.54K Views
Where to seek the right sales executives working on a revenue share basis?

We're a startup company providing payment services/network/platform, we are similar but not like conventional payment service providers. The product has just been developed, compliance is underway...

asked Jan 3 '12 at 00:59
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Justin
6 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
1.91K Views
Identifying a missed business opportunity

Possible Duplicate: Where to draw ideas from? My hope is by asking this question, that many of you who are very proficient in doing a start-up would be able to enlighten some of us who just come...

asked Jan 6 '12 at 06:02
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Kyle B.
106 points

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1 Answers
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Evaluating a startup

My question is, what is the best way to evaluate a software startup as a perspective employee from the point of view of viability i.e. economic viability. I am more interested in hints related to...

asked Jan 6 '12 at 07:13
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Jim
21 points

7 Votes
3 Answers
2.69K Views
What to do to boost user registration

I started planning a new web service. I started to write some effect maps to define primary goals that are basically related to growing numbers of: site traffic user registrations user shopping...

asked Jan 6 '12 at 22:27
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Robert Koritnik
308 points

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What type of developers to hire for outsourced development?

I'm trying to build a minimum viable product SaaS website as a proof of concept, and wanted to know what type of developers I should be looking for if using an outsourcing website like odesk /...

asked Jan 7 '12 at 07:21
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Kenny
3 points