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Social commerce engine suggestion please

I'm looking for a social commerce engine to power my new commerce business. Not talking about the typical oscommerce (hack & slash) solution but a more complex & comprehensive solution that allows multiple businesses to run their stores on my marketplace, print shipping labels easily, and process credit cards (paid directly to the small businesses on my site minus my commission).I've...

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Alternative to Quickbooks for accounting & customer contacts

I'm looking for an alternative to Quickbooks for my accounting and customer/vendor contact management.Wanted a more user friendly and better UI/UX for the future. Their QB Pro version is obviously very robust and great for an accountant or book keeper but I don't have really have the time to figure it all out. Plus it's such a boring software to use haha.thanks

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Need a Developer Partner

What?We are a luxury marketplace for gourmet food and beverage products. Our goal is to create a social commerce marketplace that allows consumers and merchants to build trusting and dependable relationships. We make it possible for producers to grow their business without any investments into marketing, web development or an online team.Whys’?It’s the new hot market right now, current startups...

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Looking for Developer/Development Partner

What?We are a luxury marketplace for gourmet food and beverage products. Our goal is to create a social commerce marketplace that allows consumers and merchants to build trusting and dependable relationships. We make it possible for producers to grow their business without any investments into marketing, web development or an online team.Whys’?It’s the new hot market right now, current...

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Re: on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:26AM (#3215798)
My co-founder used to run his own web development firm, he has since shut it down to join us full time. We have two part time developers, one from Yahoo and one from Level. But the team is stretched thin and there are still a lot of critical features to develop to hit our milestones, I need another full time person to join.

thx for the tip, I'll check it out.

Re:I just quit, should I be worried? on Monday August 22, 2011 @02:38AM (#2911597)
that's what i've been trying to do. just focus on pushing forward with all aspects of the business. everytime i take a break, i keep seeing articles about the double dip recession and can't help but worry. even TC posted about economy, jobs, outsourcing etc...
Re:I just quit, should I be worried? on Monday August 22, 2011 @02:36AM (#2911590)
i WAS waiting for my stocks to go up to buy my shotgun to add to my collection (well i only have a 9) but that ain't happening anytime soon. gota pay the car bill. prob should stock up on ammo though.

I just quit, should I be worried?

Just quit my dead end 9-5 corporate job to prepare my startup for public beta launch. Was really excited to finally focus 100% on my site then the economic "meltdown" happened two weeks ago. There's no going back since I hated what I'm doing anyways. Some investors who showed interest, seem to be avoiding me. I have some investments in the stock market for my savings that obviously reduced...

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Linkedin down?

been trying to log into linkedin,but it's down. in fact their homepage isn't even working. got this error. bee almost 15mins and counting.HTTP Status 500 -type Status reportmessagedescription The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. Apache Tomcat/6.0.32

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Ask HN: Deal space marketplace?

Where do you think the deal space marketplace (Groupon, Livingsocial, Gilt, Rue La La) is going the next 12-24 months? Sustainable? What do they need to do to innovate to keep the market from being just a phase (i.e. netbooks)?

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