It depends on your business but in my experience, the best was to do a half and half model where some of it was virtual and some of it was onsite. After hours is something that costs effective outsourcing to a virtual company can be effective.
You could also try to establish a group of analysts that would meet with you (virtually or in-person) that would act as an advisory group, in exchange for seeing their product inputs considered, or possibly a period of free use of the app. The best way to find out their motivations for signing u...
What you are experiencing is not unique to tech industry. Most industries have been subject to ineffective human capital management. HR in general has not seen the same focus as marketing and product development because of lack of long term vision. Most recent innovations and emphasize has been i...
I've spent a lot of time in the telephony, call center, crm space and built a lot of applications that involve incoming phone calls and sms. I don't know of a product that works exactly as you specified but I have constructed things that did part of that for conferences and audience feedback. Y...
If you're not a coder, I don't know how you're going to publish code... but I'll look past that. The best thing to do is host the code on Github, then create a website for the project using Github Pages. At that point, gaining traction from the community so other people contribute to it has a lo...
Remember having a friend in a similar situation. This was my advice in that moment: -Make a list of the top 50 clients you had in the consulting firm, choose those which you had a close relationship and can actually talk about you (not fake it) -Call them and ask them if they believe you did a ...
Usually Programmers are only slow when they don't know how to solve a particular problem. So they will spend a lot of time researching and a lot of trial & errors to solve a problem. It is important that before you engage a programmer on a project, you break down the entire project into simple, e...
If your concerns are around negotiating between investors and the Company, the best thing you can do is to retain a great Silicon Valley based law-firm. There are about a dozen highly reputable firms that are very startup friendly that will often defer most legal bills or charge inexpensively du...
My absolute first advice would be not to launch the app at a low price then raise it up later on. That's an absolute No No. There is no real rule to price your app. My suggestion would be to look around the app store of similar apps to get an idea of what they are priced at. Once you launched...