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Hi All,

I need to write an executive summary for our startup but I don't really know where to start. The audience for this summary is going to potential advisors for now and investors in the future. It is not for clients, users etc.

Any links to blog posts etc which have some ideas or examples would be greatly appreciated. If you all have some thoughts on what should/shouldn't be included, that would be wonderful as well.

Thanks

Hi all - I'm looking for some recommendations for a startup friendly bank. Ideally ones that: 1. deal with web startups regularly 2. have been involved with early stage external financing 3. even better if they have a location around Los Angeles

Any ideas or thoughts around startup banking would also be appreciated.

Thanks

We are still working on our product while a competitor product has launched and is getting traction from some top retailers already (we are in the retail ecommerce space). They do not have all the pieces we have so our platform is far better and we're mid way in development so we can't really cut scope now.<p>What do we do? Start selling with "product coming" promises? The product is in the large company space so the selling process takes a few months, so getting a headstart may not be a bad idea.<p>Thoughts?

Does anyone have any experience with doing this? Was not able to find any implementations other than Meebo on a website. The help is very sparse - anyone have any examples/code of how to integrate facebook chat on an external website ?

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

We're working on the product for my new startup in the ecommerce space. No it's not another ecommerce site builder :) Our product should be ready in the next 5-6 weeks.

Our question is: should we advertise by having a booth at the Internet Retailer or shop.org conferences? Has anyone done this at these conferences and was it useful?

If not these ones specifically, what have your experiences been with booths at trade conferences or shows in your area of expertise?

Cash is tight as a startup and these don't come cheap so would love to get your thoughts.

Thanks in advance.

Hi All, does anyone know of a service or a set of API's to get a person's airline rewards/miles and hotel rewards points by entering their login/password? Sort of a "Yodlee" equivalent per se for Mint would be a good analogy.

If not, how does Points.com get this information? Do they integrate individually with each service? And if yes, how do we do that?

Thanks everyone, we're bummed here so any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

Hi All,

I need your help and thoughts. Here's a quick background.

I started building some projects for fun and realized that it would be great if I can hire some help. Obviously, I couldn't afford a full time salary here, so I decided to see if there's some possibility of an offshore team.

I hired my first person 18 months ago and this person started working at then my partners house (he lives offshore). We moved into our first office 15 months ago and increased the team to 4 people. Till then I was just building stuff for fun trying to see what sticks. This is when I started getting requests from a couple of people to build applications for them. It was a good source of side income and so we did.

Fast forward to now, my partner is no longer with us (I own the company now), we have moved into a larger office and recently hired employee # 10 and # 11. We're doing some fun things building fun applications and this hobby has suddenly turned into a BUSINESS with real profit and revenue.

The problems and questions I have are: a) My structure so far was flat. Everyone reported to me. We used scrum reporting from Assembla. However, now there's too many people to manage plus I still have customers to work with. However, if we introduce a structure, the hierarchy may slow things down. Thoughts?

b) With more people especially since I am not in the same location as others, there are communication hurdles. We've gotten pretty good at this but does anyone have better experience with dislocated teams that can suggest some tools? process? etc. that can help other than the regular skype, messenger, phone etc.

c) If we decide a structure, it makes sense for me to make my first 4 employees as leads. They have been around the longest and worked with me the most (and hence understand me the most). 2 of those are the strongest developers, however the other 2 not so much. However, from experience I know that when you make the smartest people leaders, they loose their day to day contribution a little at least in the short run. What do you recommend the best structure would look like.

I understand I may not have provided some details, so please let me know in the comments and I will add here.

Appreciate your help for a first time entrepreneur/business owner with little knowledge of growing a company and creating a structure that lends well to growth.

Thanks !

Can someone point me to a study or stat on how many people have sound enabled on their computers.

We need to do some analysis for an app we're building which depends on sound being enabled.

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone had any clue of how to do this. We're trying to create a java (MIDP?) app to be able to show articles from a website on the cellphone.

Any idea or references of where to start ?

Thanks