LanceHaynie

Never enough, last night I went to sleep around 1AM and was back up at 7AM; that is a good average for me. I am worthless until about 11AM but I have kids so I don't really have a choice if I want to get anything done.

Hard to say what is best without knowing what your requirements are. However, I use Amazon S3 99% of the time for anything I don't store on a local server. There are apps out there that can allow you to mount as a shared drive. If you are a Mac/Linux user you can use fuse s3fs to mount as a filesystem.

I agree, I have never seen that before.

It's going to be hard to find a CPC rate in the pennies as well as get good conversion rates. However, one thing you could do is target a smaller market.

For instance if you are selling a product marketed to auto body shops; start with say Dallas vs. the entire US.

"The Applesoft Basic Programmer's Reference Manual"

I was around 10 and my parents bought a used Apple II and this book came with it. I thought it was the coolest thing to make a program, even if it was super basic. I wish I would have kept the book, my parents ended up throwing out the book and the computer a few years later.

I try to find end users in my target market and somehow get them to use it during the process. It's a tough sell, but you can always find someone who is fed up enough to try anything new.

On the project I am currently working on, we are building software for real estate agents. I actually brought in the owner of a small firm (10 agents) as a co-founder in exchange for him forcing his team to use the application. This ended up working very well, we got instant feedback and were able to update the software generally same day. I hold regular meetings with the team, two or three times weekly, to make sure they have no roadblocks in doing their job. They are happy because we are molding the software as we go to specific needs, and we are happy because we are able to find out instantly what works and what doesnt.

We also brought in another team once we felt it was at least close to beta status. We offered them free usage of the application through public release, and then six months free after release.

MacBook Pro and Keynote seem to do the job just fine for me. If I am going to send the presentation to anyone I almost always export to PDF.

First, like others have said, don't do it.

Second, I am going to assume since you were not specific you are talking about web development. There really, in my opinion, isn't a language that is better than another as far as what can be accomplished. On a very basic level you are going to be reading/writing data to a database. Every language can do this. There are some things to consider, if you don't have a Windows Server with IIS ASP is out.

For nearly 99% of the projects I create I stick with PHP and MySQL. Why? No reason other than it's what I started with. Why did I start with it? A friend of mine was already using it so I had a reasource to ask questions. Do you know any other non-begginers? If yes, figure out what language they prefer and give that one a try.

Lastly, and this is just my opinion, I would stay away from frameworks as a beginner. Once you have your sea legs so to speak, sure. At that point its about getting things off the ground as soon as you can. Right now, you should be focusing on the basics and understanding the syntax.

I have craftasticvoyage.com that I would be willing to part with! The wife wanted to sell her crafts but never seems to get around to doing anything with it.

That kind of depends on how you want to approach your project... The MIT license is very open and let's anyone do just about anything with it, of course they have to let people know where the code came from giving you due credit. The Apache license is similar, but throws in some verbiage about patents. GPL is probably the most restrictive in my view, it forces any forks of your code to also be listed under GPL.

Check this out for more info: http://opensource.org/licenses/

Simply being a part of a company from the start does not make you a founder, or even a partner. There are plenty of firms that pay in both salary and equity. Unless there was some form agreement, this person in my eyes is an employee.

What I would do in that position is sit down with the employee and explain in clear terms why they are not a founder or parter. If the owner is open to a partner, possibly offer up an agreement. However, I doubt there is any way to go over this without some tension. I would get it over with sooner rather than later, as the company grows it will only become more problematic.