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International provisional patent application?

Our product is ready for manufacturing. i applied for a none-provisional application in my country. but i know this do not effect on other countries and also if i start selling product then other...

asked Aug 19 '12 at 04:58
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Ted
6 points

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3 Answers
2.85K Views
What would be the right strategy to promote a startup in India?

We have a rating based social blogging platform. The webiste got launched about a month ago and is in its beta stage now. Being established in India, where the domain of users of the site, the...

asked Jan 23 '13 at 17:31
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Pranjay Mittal
6 points

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3 Answers
2.54K Views
Is it better to incorporate when deciding to design software and market it yourself?

Suppose I had an idea for a software and I wanted to hire offshore developers/contractors to help me with this idea. Would it be more efficient/better for me if I incorporated? Will IP...

asked Sep 14 '13 at 01:44
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B Dillan
13 points

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2 Answers
2.57K Views
Monthly billing between PayPal and a spreedly, recurly

Paypal's simplest integration is an IPN and is super simple, but we all know the risks, and how badly they handle monthly billing. But it takes an hour to set up and is $.30 + 3% or something. It...

asked Jun 12 '10 at 03:09
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User3635
6 points

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2 Answers
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Where I can find CMO or Director of Publicity as co-founder

I`m a social community website founder. By only one person, I make the site have over 8000+ members and about 100,000 Alexa rank. A kind of some famous social community in my country. But it is...

asked Aug 17 '11 at 19:51
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Anlai
375 points

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2 Answers
2.17K Views
Integrating my project with facebook

What if i want to integrate my online website with facebook? By integrating i mean, there would be a link on facebook that will take the user to my website directly but i am not talking about...

asked Aug 30 '11 at 22:06
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Kraken
133 points

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2.98K Views
Duties & Taxes involved in importing into the US

We are a UK private limited company who export from India direct to our customers in the UK, we are now looking to export from India into the US. My question is regarding the import duties and...

asked Feb 2 '12 at 08:10
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Dav
8 points

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1 Answers
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Need to include expenses you paid yourself on an LLC's tax return?

I may have made a goof here and want to fix any problems. I formed an LLC in 2010. In 2010 and early 2011, I paid the LLC's expenses out of my own bank account, using my own checks, and I had no...

asked Mar 20 '12 at 21:32
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User6492
1,747 points

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2.29K Views
Self-employed would like to hire non-US

I am a self-employed political consultant and would like to hire a non-US citizen to help me work on EU-US relations and have him work with me in the US. I am confident that his expertise cannot be...

asked Apr 20 '12 at 23:22
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John
6 points

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Is choosing a commercial technology going to make it harder to find hackers to hire?

I am currently working as a tech advisor for a start-up. We tried composing a dev team for a while, but were unable to find talented people. We got a proposal from a company to build our app,...

asked Aug 19 '12 at 06:52
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Xananax
108 points

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2.71K Views
Rich Internet Applications - your product strategy

Could someone share your experiences if you have created a rich internet application (Adobe AIR ) version of the web application? Or, created a hybrid or lighter version of the web application as a...

asked Jan 21 '10 at 15:42
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Aka Ak
165 points

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3.95K Views
Start up on student visa in the US

Has anyone, on this forum, started a business on student visa (F1) in US?

asked Jul 31 '11 at 09:46
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Sid
44 points

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2.85K Views
I have a static prototype, can I get angel investment?

I have a static prototype for a very promising company. The prototype is not dynamic, just made to show how the site works. I need an investment to actually develop the functionality and get some...

asked Aug 7 '11 at 03:29
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Dawson Whitfield
6 points

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OEM Licensing Payment Term

How is the typical OEM licensing payment term? For example if another party want to buy 50 licenses, do they need to pay in full amount ? or some percentage in initial agreement and the remaining...

asked Dec 23 '11 at 02:49
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Jazar
123 points

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2.29K Views
Low price merchant friendly payment gateway

Without getting into too much detail, we need to lot of transfer of large amounts upto $1000. However that's not our revenue. We need a payment gateway which offers low fees ACH transfers,...

asked Jan 14 '12 at 12:45
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Iam
16 points

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2 Answers
2.94K Views
What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, just a month before renewal?

What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, especially a month or two before they renew with them? Is there any business term for what I...

asked Dec 15 '12 at 17:20
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Anilkumble789
6 points

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2.34K Views
SaaS founders incentives: Business and Technology

We are two 50/50 founders of an enterprise SaaS company. both cofounders are tech people with a good grasp of business knowledge. Mainly, one of our cofounders brought most of our clients and...

asked Dec 28 '12 at 07:14
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Sd Reyes
156 points

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Research online communities for "willingness to purchase"

How can I research whether or not an online community is willing to spend money on products that are within their area of interest? Is there a better way to determine that they will spend (or not)...

asked Jun 25 '13 at 22:32
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Charles
106 points

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Why do brands open up stores in a mall where they would have competitors?

Why wouldn't they just open their store outside of a mall where would be less competition? Every mall has several brand name stores that directly compete with each other. Wouldn't it be harder to...

asked Apr 13 '14 at 13:41
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James Wentworth
9 points

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4 Answers
2.72K Views
How to find short term sales for enterprise software?

I understand enterprise software to large companies is a long sales cycle. What is the first step in finding some short term revenue while we wait for the long term sales to come to fruitation?

asked May 18 '10 at 06:31
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Stacey
484 points