Software Questions

We're developing an extension to a commercial open source enterprise software product. Most customers of the product we're extending buy it trough one of its system integration partners. To reach...

Sales Software Enterprise Saas Partnerships

asked Aug 26 '10 at 05:33

Jonas H.
108 points

My aspiration in life is to become a entrepreneur and because of my background (4 years as a software developer) I figure I would go best if I start out as a technical founder at a start up. I...

Software Technology Founders

asked Aug 30 '10 at 23:12

Dont Judge Those Who Try And Fail
8 points

I have an idea for a business and would like some feedback. The other day I was thinking about software development teams and how they function, the things they do right and the things they do...

Software Development Consulting

asked Sep 2 '10 at 12:12

Smart Company Software
1,190 points

As far as I know, there are two recognized way to launch Software: Hollywood launch 1) Teaser 2) Preview 3) Launch Gmail Approach 1) Few invites 2) Beta 3) Buzz and Marketing 4)...

Software Launch

asked Sep 22 '10 at 18:19

Systempuntoout
121 points

I want to start an online magazine website and I'd like to know what platform to use. Something like Wordpress, Drupal, and other CMS systems, any recommendations?

Software Technology Website Open Source CMS

asked Sep 22 '10 at 23:54

Alexandru Trandafir Catalin
157 points

If one sells ecommerce software, do you HAVE to be PCI compliant at this point? I read it costs upwards of 40K to get your ecomm software PCI compliant. And some of the requirements have things...

Software Ecommerce

asked Jul 22 '10 at 03:40

Un Startup
162 points

We have developed a software which is server installable and is accessed by browser. We have just got our first large client which wants to use it, but wants to install it within their data center,...

Software Piracy

asked Jul 28 '10 at 17:39

Shabda
159 points

I'm looking for a 3rd party payment handling site to sell my software. Currently I have shortlisted Avangate (www.avangate.com) and Fastspring (www.fastspring.com). Fastspring seems to have the...

Software Ecommerce Affiliate

asked Jul 31 '10 at 00:26

Tanvir Chowdhury
165 points

PA-DSS certification costs over 40K to get. Any ecommerce application that is distrubuted that handles CC transactions has to get this certification. Some of the rules are 'code reviews', which...

Software Ecommerce

asked Aug 13 '10 at 23:19

Un Startup
162 points

If a company (squarespace) is doing around 5-8million, how could they possible get a minority investment of almost 40 million? Minority to me means less than 50%, so that would put the companies...

Software Application Investors

asked Aug 19 '10 at 04:07

Un Startup
162 points

I am planning to make an application to digitalize and organize documents a company, or forum, etc may have. The first thing that came to my mind was about how i should look around for possible...

Software Market Research

asked Aug 20 '10 at 16:18

Prix
133 points

I used MS free development tool (sorry forgot the name and not on the computer where I did it) and the video was just old and not that good. I'm not good at the whole video thing but would really...

Software Advertising Video

asked Jun 10 '10 at 13:55

John Bogrand
2,210 points

Let say I have a Demo and Full versions of my software. Demo is like a Full but with some missing functionality. Someone installs Demo, try it and decides to purchase Full version. He downloads it...

Software Demo

asked Jun 24 '10 at 21:46

Ross
2,288 points

I’m given a task to expand our Product Engineering services to US, UK & EMEA markets and identify new customers/startups who would like to build new products/software. We do have proven track...

Software Products

asked Jul 2 '10 at 03:11

Pavan M
31 points

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?

Sales Software

asked May 18 '10 at 06:31

Stacey
484 points

I am working with a startup ad agency that has some very large clients for some large, complex projects. Many of their projects are subcontracted to other vendors and to crowdsourcing platforms,...

Software Project Management Accounting

asked May 21 '10 at 07:16

Jim Shook
417 points

Our company is currently thinking about hiring an independent contractor to expand our software product. I was wondering what the costs (insurance etc...) and tax implications of this might be if...

Software Independent Contractor

asked May 25 '10 at 23:44

Nbeecroft
515 points

We offer our resellers (ones that actively go out and sell to customers) a 25% discount on software licenses. We have just introduced an annual maintenance fee, at 20% of current list price at the...

Sales Software Subscriptions

asked Jun 4 '10 at 18:01

Cocowalla
327 points

Is there a checklist or some stats that anyone has used that gives a comfort level to getting to a minimum valid product? I'm a lone startup ISV and find that I need to take extra effort to...

Marketing Software Focus Products

asked Jun 5 '10 at 00:42

John Bogrand
2,210 points

I would like to get advice from others on what steps I should take before starting an LLC. I want to offer software development services through my company, and just want some pointers on things I...

Software LLC Legal Business Model

asked Apr 26 '10 at 10:44

Thomas
116 points