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Short answer: Ruby/Python for B2C startup, Java for B2B / large company. This is easy to quantify just by looking at the jobs posted on AngelList.

Use trycelery.com and you can start taking pre-orders immediately, and see how much they are willing to pay. http://customerdevlabs.com/makemoney

Signed up. Good luck! I don't really have or listen to vinyl, but I'm a music lover and also love album art.

It's not specifically for sole founders, but I'm on nReduce and it's a good way to get feedback from fellow entrepreneurs.

This is a specific niche, so have you thought about ads in industry specific places? Like Infoworld, sites like that. P.S. Thanks for posting about your experience.

I'm no expert on sales/marketing/distribution either, but... given that you run a paid service, each customer has a tangible lifetime value. So you can offer a referral commission …

Gamification, badges, recognition, social profiles. Offer some sense of gratification when they complete a transaction and give something away. Integrate with Facebook, both for in…

Market research: someone who can interview potential users/customers, get statistics on the market, create/run/evaluate surveys. UI/UX: someone who can evaluate the user experience…

What area is your idea in? You don't have to give exact specifics, but you can and should say what space it is in. When looking for a co-founder you want someone who shares your pa…

Salesforce.com. Twitter uses Scala.

Applied with whathavei. whathavei is your personal inventory and social shopping list in the cloud - track and share all the products you have, want, and like. It's in private beta…

$1500 per person, you won't find your own place for that price in SF.

Kixeye http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/05/KIXEYE-RULE-THE-INTERWEB... http://cdn1.uptownalmanac.com/cdn/farfuture/TLjMiGusFNsz18B-... Good? Debatable. Memorable? No doubt.

Yes, absolutely. I had an experience where the design was dictated by an architect who cared more about the theoretical and having UML diagrams looking nice than about actual busin…

I hate to recommend doing something you don't really like, but in this case it might be worth it to make your life easier. smegel is right, all recruiters and most hiring managers …

Take a look at Clerky. https://www.clerky.com/ From their web site: Clerky helps startups get the legal stuff done fast. Incorporation, convertible notes, employee documents, NDAs …

I've been working for a long time, so having savings already was the first step. Like codegeek said, family situation and health insurance are important, luckily everyone is in sup…

You should try to go with the place you'll be happier working at. If you try to pick a job based just on career path, advancement, money, you'll probably regret it. Obviously if yo…

Do what makes you happy. If you enjoy what you do and the company is good, you can excel and make an impact. Having good people to work with is so important so weigh that heavily. …

I'm working on whathavei, a personal inventory and social shopping app for people to track and share information about all the products they own. I definitely want to incorporate i…

For used car prices, check out Carsabi. They got acquired already, but the site is still up. http://carsabi.com/

Read this before deciding http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/

A good recruiter might be even harder to find than a good developer. You probably need a recruiter if you really need to scale or are in a desperate time crunch.

Build something. I can never really learn just by reading docs, books, etc. If you want to learn XYZ programming language, write an app in that language. In order to get that app b…

The most important thing is that you separate the different layers of the app so that you can refactor later. Using Spring is a good way to keep that separation. The frontend layer…