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which is better when you want to use navigation app, Waze or Google Map? and why? I always use GMap, never use Waze. Would love to hear some opinions. Thanks.

I am currently running a bootstrapped startup, and i need an intern to help me with marketing and sales. since i am bootstrapping and i am very low in fund, i am thinking of hiring an intern and pay with profit sharing based on the intern performance.

Another reason is that it can be served as a trial. if it goes well and things pick up, it can be converted to full time, and i can also pay an hourly rate.

i am thinking of 10% share from net profit generated from the intern marketing performance.

what do you think? Would it be fair? Or a larger profit sharing like 15%, 20%?

Thanks.

I have already implemented Stripe, which can accept any worldwide credit card. But I understand that credit card may not be common for international users, so they only own bank account only.

Is there another payment options besides Paypal that can use bank account to pay for international users? I would not want to limit my users just because they do not have credit card.

I understand Paypal can accept many currencies, hence eliminate unnecessary foreign transaction fee for users

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/country-worldwide

Thanks.

If you were to launch a startup, how would you define and write your T&C?

Do you hire a specialist to do this? Where can I find such person? A marketplace for lawyer like upcounsel.com? What would be an ongoing rate to have a well written T&C?

Thanks.

I come from a technical background and have little experience in marketing and internet space. I am currently working on my startup that is ready to launch within few weeks.

I am having difficulties to think about how I am going to launch it. I am thinking of doing a closed beta first and then after few weeks of beta, then open it up.

my question is how do I build my landing page? Should I use a free landing page like launchrock.co, prefinery.com, or build my own?

I think what I want on my landing page are a space for people to ask for an invite by entering their email address (hence I am mining email) and a login link for people who have credentials to login. I would then do manual work by sorting email address and manually send invite to the email addresses that are legit (not spam).

Would that be enough? Should I use free landing page tools like launchrock? Paid like prefinery? or build my own landing page as it's simple enough?

Thank you for your input

My startup is a peer to peer marketplace. I have been thinking about how to build trust and safety in the marketplace. One of them is to do an offline identity verification such as ID card, passport, driver license, etc.

What do you think of ID verification? is it necessary? How do you build trust and safety?

Also, I have been researching about firms that do ID verification. I know that Jumio, miicard and LexisNexis are some of them. Jumio is used by airbnb, so I contacted Jumio and a rep replied to my inquiries immediately and asked several questions. I answered that my startup is in stealth mode and, since then, it’s blank, 3 weeks have passed and no more update, I even sent a follow up email a week ago and to no avail. It seems like Jumio does not want my business.

So now I am considering LexisNexis and/or miicard as an alternative.

Have anyone use identity verification service with them and can you share your experience with them integrating it with your startup?

Thanks.

I am curious to know what you guys use for your startup email solution.

I am currently considering moving to AWS, and possibly using their Amazon SES. However I see that there are other alternatives like mailgun.com or sendgrid.com

what would be the advantage of using 3rd party solution vs in house Amazon SES? I see that the pricing is pretty similar and I am leaning towards using SES, but I would like to hear opinions.

Thank you.

Should I use ready solution like mixpanel.com? Or should I build it myself?

How do you build it yourself to ensure accurate data reporting?

Thanks.

While I can write English OK, but I think I would like to leave it to the pro writers to do it. I need it to write the content of my site such as FAQ, About Us, How it works, etc.

The only marketplace I found is scripted.com but it's not that user friendly, in my opinion.

I could go on in odesk, freelancer, elance but there are more of developers instead of writers.

Just curious if there are any other options to look at.

Thanks.

As I am building my marketplace startup, I would need to verify the identity of my user before I send them ACH for their payment.

I am curious to find out what and how you would use in term of verifying your user identity. I understand like airbnb is using offline identity (passport or driver license), taskrabbits are using background check (sterling info systems), I think Zaarly is also using some background check as well.

if using background check firms, who would you recommend that is startup friendly in term of integration and cost?

Thanks.