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Shoot me an email (check out my bio), I may have some front-end work.

I run a startup based in New Orleans, and was offered a chance to tag along on a trip to San Francisco for a few days (August 8th-10th) which I jumped on as a chance to look at a f…

Is it really that shocking though? RIM made its nest in the business community, not exactly a demographic you would anticipate would care a huge deal about apps. When the market sh…

It's easy to say you're passionate about a product, but how are you expressing that? Do you know the ins and outs of their product? Their market? Have you researched their competit…

This is also the case with many professional fields. There are plenty of lawyers, accountants, marketers, etc. who start a small firm and then run it the rest of their life without…

The expectation would be that our revenues will grow to the point that retaining talent won't be a problem. We only just started the market entry process at the start of the month,…

Not yet, but that's probably because we just started our market entry process about two weeks ago. That said, our operating costs are tiny (all combined they're currently less than…

As a non-developer solo founder, this article resonates with me more to the point of "as a founder, you can't expect to devote all your energies to any one thing". My responsibilit…

No, you don't. I can't code my ass from my elbow, but I know how the technology works, I know where to find the kind of technology I want in my product, and I can find the people w…

No, you put in the time to find a good programmer who will work for a reasonable price. Typically that means finding someone who graduated fairly recently and is looking for additi…

By way of explanation, my startup is closing in on its launch, and we've decided to do a front end redesign while certain issues on the back end get wrapped up (let's just say our …

My startup is closing in on its launch, and we've decided to do a front end redesign while certain issues on the back end get wrapped up (let's just say our original designer was a…

Feel free to shoot me an email (address in my profile); depending upon the languages you know, I may have some work for you.

I posted this above, but to reiterate: Be very careful about hiring interns. You cannot just hire someone to be free labor. According to Federal regulations, you must receive "no i…

Be careful of this route. Make sure any internship you offer fits into the legal guidelines of the US Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm#.UL1vs…

This is basically the path I've followed (I guess I'm at your stage 2?), and I can't recommend it enough. I've worked with 3 developers now, and talked to God knows how many more, …

This is really not impressive if you know the POS sphere. Starbucks' POS is a Micros-based system. Micros is the only major POS provider that is currently working with 3rd party ve…

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This is not legal advice. Go here: http://www.probono.net/ Find your state and see if you can find a pro bono attorney or two. Give them a call. See if one can refer you to someone…

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Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? As a non-technical business founder myself, I just can't understand what that guy possibly would have been thinking. I'd never give up tha…

Yeah, New Orleans is our test market. Plan is to show proof of concept with some traction there, then get some funding to expand regionally.

I'm working on http://www.couchster.com Currently working on resolving some CSS issues and a few other code problems.

I would think that the moment you're offered 40% of a company, your first thought would be "this guy clearly doesn't believe in this company himself, or else he'd never offer me th…

It'd help to have a little more info on what stage you were at with your company. Do you have a defined business model? Have you developed a MVP yet? Whether to fold or push the st…