Management Questions

Here's the problem for software development startup. We're two. One can do a decent hard-skill programming. The other one don't know anything, except he has some capital ( approx. less than 10k,...

Software Co-Founder Management Business Development

asked Dec 12 '12 at 19:13

Peter
6 points

I'll try to keep this as brief as I can. Recently I have taken up a position within a big agency where I am responsible for an 'innovation cell'. People can voluntarily join this cell and they get...

Management Leadership Team

asked Nov 12 '12 at 21:46

Maikel
18 points

I'm currently in the process of building a startup with two co-founders (both are business people). Since I've been a developer in a wide-range of technologies I'll handle the CTO role. This won't...

CTO Management Leadership People

asked Nov 2 '12 at 00:49

Alex K.
18 points

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...

Management Leadership

asked Oct 11 '12 at 13:53

Randy Syring
116 points

Question: How do you prevent a situation where you have to produce work-product work first and get client feedback before getting on the right track to meet their needs? Are there techniques to...

Management Customers Project Management Design Web Design

asked Oct 18 '12 at 10:34

Daniel Skowro?Ski
18 points

We are in the process of setting up a board structure for our startup. Everybody on the board will have their own veto rights on important matters, such as capital injection, spending limits,...

Board Management Incorporation Investors Shares

asked Sep 12 '12 at 19:27

Jaxons
16 points

Performance Indicators in existing businesses that have a defined business model and market are much easier to identify performance indicators for. Within startup businesses, are there any...

Management Analytics

asked Aug 8 '12 at 01:47

Blunders .
899 points

How can I improve the rate at which as a startup a group of 3 people get things done? We are a group of 3, and have a few web apps that run in a mostly automated fashion. But improving on these...

Management Productivity

asked Jun 5 '12 at 19:05

Khuram Malik
104 points

Internationalization and localization are some ways to test the water in various regions, to see which market you fit in best. I wonder if any of you has any experience in a multi-lingual web...

Management International Localization Translation

asked May 25 '12 at 14:33

Victor
593 points

This question is not directly related to a creating or running a startup, but I guess this is one of the things that can happen at a startup and I'd love to hear responses from both sides of the...

Management Employees Employers Payroll

asked May 8 '12 at 08:32

Peter
111 points

I'm looking for the magic trifecta of good/quick/cheap, what are some options for improving operational capabilities around... Support - Clients email a support email, this opens a ticket,...

Management Operations

asked Apr 6 '12 at 03:30

Mr. Graves
3 points

I'm looking for a strategy to negotiate punctuality with an employee who is quite skilled. However, I fear that docking his pay may not have an impact because he values his own time more highly...

Management Employees Human Resources

asked Feb 20 '12 at 08:58

User2436
14 points

My SaaS company consists of myself (founder and developer), another developer, and a support person. Our new app is starting to gain traction, and as a result, I'm on the phone with potential / new...

Sales Management Account

asked Feb 14 '12 at 13:17

Hodge
30 points

I run a paranormal investigation team which was founded by me, the logo designed by me and the paperwork designed by me. Initial funding was from my credit cards and the group has been running just...

Management Administration

asked Feb 1 '12 at 14:40

Linkin
9 points

A few people have recommended the "E-Myth Revisited" book to me (and its on Joel reading list IIRC) and it gets very consistently good...

Management

asked Oct 22 '11 at 03:30

Ryan
1,365 points

We have a very important employee at our startup who has been consistently abusing sick days. Unfortunately being a small company we would have a very hard time replacing him at this point but his...

Management Employees

asked Oct 1 '11 at 02:18

Lloyd
53 points

After months and months and months of work, our team finally launched our first application. We have been very fortunate to receive a lot of feedback and one of my first "goals" post-launch is to...

Management Customer Feedback

asked Aug 11 '11 at 22:25

Travis Truett
127 points

We recently met a person through our contacts and he has shown interest in our startup & super liked the Idea. We had initially requested him to be our mentor, for which he agreed. In our next...

Board Advisors Management Entrepreneurs Compensation

asked Jul 29 '11 at 04:21

Kumar K
11 points

I'm starting up a lawn mowing service, and I want to know if there is any free software, where I can track sales, customers, expenses ect. It doesn't need to be feature-crazy as my business will...

Software Management Accounting

asked Jul 4 '11 at 07:05

Ratz
118 points

Preferably specifically targeted for startups in Tech/IT. I seem to find a lot about large corporations, but very little good literature about scaling from a small/midsize into a large...

Management Books Organization Scaling

asked Jun 23 '11 at 23:05

John Sjölander
2,082 points