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I would make sure to have a "one sheet" for your pricing already created. If you're okay with a discount rate and equity then have that as an option. When you pivot to discussing compensation it becomes as easy as " for compensation for this projects here's a link to our page/PDF for startups. As...

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Whenever you assign them a task, break down the task into small chunks. Make the chunks as small as you can (within reason, and to the extent that your knowledge allows), and tell your devs that if any chunks seem large, that they should further break those chunks down into bite size pieces. Fo...

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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...

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To answer this question, I would need to know a lot more (how many other founders, employees, background of the CTO, etc.). A great resource for thinking through founder equity is this post by Joel Spolsky. http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-software-startup-how-do-i-a...

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I don't live in Chicago, but there is a Co-Founders Lab there that provides networking opportunities to find fellow entrepreneurs and co-founders. Here's a link for more info: http://www.1871.com/cofounderslab-comes-to-chicago/

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One option is to allow sorting on different facets, and default to one that levels the playing field a bit. For example, instead of showing the tutors with the highest ratings, perhaps you could show the tutors with the highest ratings in the last 14 days (average of the last 14 days' reviews on...

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You can either dissect the inner workings of ajax calls (if the website has any) or write a regular full-page scraper which traverses the product catalog. Popular choices for scraping are casperjs, beautiful soup, mechanize, etc. Each having its strengths and drawbacks - casper for instance can e...

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Tough question. Prior to 2008 it wasn't too bad but since 2012 especially finding commission-based reps has been difficult. In 2011 I created an agency for a management consulting firm. At that time I could still count on responses to ads. But in 2012 response was non-existent. I also hired com...

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The best way to build an MVP for any SaaS product is to create a landing page that looks like a real product. Here's an example of one I built. http://www.happiily.com In this case, it advertises the primary features of the product and invites people to sign-up. When they do, they are asked f...

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I run my own sites in a network installation. You have the same possibilities to customize the sites but you will have the advantage that you can enable plugins network wide. But if you want, you can just enable a plugin per site. So as long as it's data stored in the database, you can customize...

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