Completely depends on your market and who your targeting. All the movies come out during the holidays and during the summer. The latest trapper keeper comes out in August. I think your question is one only your team can answer themselves.
We constantly try to get interns willing to work for free at our start up. We get a lot of qualified interns happy to work because we give them interesting work. But if you can leverage your skills and add real value to the start up, ask for compensation. Negotiate a payment plan based on accomplishments. If you meet A requirements, in B time frame, you receive C in compensation. Willing to do work for free up front and take payment on the back end shows that you're confident in your ability to execute and make good on promises.
I suggest you bring your search for an adviser to real life. The advisers you initially have at your start up don't need to be gurus. Yes, they should be more experienced, more knowledgeable, and more connected than you are. But they should be someone who's opinion you trust and rely on. If probably know someone who will be a great adviser, just pitch them.
interesting post but the IQ numbers are all speculation. My counter argument: George W. Bush, Britney Spears, Scott Boilen. Success (however we may measure it) is not directly correlated to intelligence but to passion.
1) If the question concerns visas then i don't know.
2) none
3) Nothing is impossible. Entrepreneurs inherently do the impossible. If someone doesn't think what your doing is impossible, stupid, or ridiculous, you're not changing things.
regarding ps - what kind of answers are you looking for? Please specify and I would be happy to be more specific.
I'm planning on getting laser eye surgery in 10 years when I can't go higher in my contact and glasses subscription. I think entrepreneurs can handle the deadliness of eye strain in order to change the world.
use a attach the mcu to a bluetooth module and when the candy becomes low, send an alert over bluetooth to your smart phone/computer!!! Wonder if i can buy the parts in time...
Agreed. My winning example: Family guy got two seasons off then Fox canceled it. Changed the revenue model and kept its fan base. The rest is history (of course i skipped over all the failure, hardships, stress, and sleepless nights ;) )
You'll have a marketing challenge because of all the scammers and spammers out there. Instead of saying manage your credit card debt, maybe say personal card management software. My initial reaction is that you're looking at a huge disadvantage just because of other non-related evil doers.
Think about how many of your friends have lost or broken a phone. Many companies that give out blackberries to staff have phone insurance on each phone to ensure productivity will stay at optimum levels.
I think there is too much analysis in the article because you'll never find the perfect person willing to work for little to no pay. Just only hire people smarter/better/more experience than you. When you're a 100 person company and you find that your the dumbest one in the entire building, congratulations. You have a killer team.
I do not have experience in this exact market. My b2b sales have been made mainly through networking at events and conferences. Maybe someone with some experience could chime in with some help?
It seems you're focusing on tactics to reach these prospective customers. I suggest you focus on your product's positioning and your current marketing strategy. You'll have to shape these first before you can begin using the correct tactic.
It seems like you've successfully niched yourself. I'm interested in what your sustainable competitive advantage is? If you don't want to post this on the forum shoot me an email chris@phonehalo.com
I'm not familiar with the space. But let's say I want to outsource an iphone app development, Would I use your service? Is there another service your competing against for these kind of requests?
As someone constantly on the look out for development people to outsource parts of projects to, this could be very helpful. The problem I see is that there are professional and unprofessional services combined. Nevertheless, Having a place where I could post an RFQ and have 4 local professionals respond immediately while not getting bombarded with junk mail would be great!