How do you maintain momentum and productivity on a startup when you are not seeing results as quickly as you hoped?

There is a moment in the life of every startup where the founders go “what the hell?” Its really faith and re-examination. Sometimes, its just a timing thing. You have to wait for people to see your vision and except it. Other times, you are flat out wrong. Knowing which is which is probably the most important skill of a founder.

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I have a great app idea, but lack technical skill. Where can I find a great designer/developer team locally, what types of questions should I ask them, and how do I convin...

Answered by Ryan Kelly – Founder, Pear Analytics Posted in Operations Technology Management

Get them excited about the project and the opportunity. Developers are looking for that, because they too like getting involved on projects from the ground-up. You may be... (more)

How do you decide if you want to be on an advisory board for a startup? And how many could you (or someone) be on without being overloaded?

Answered by Hiten Shah – Founder, KISSmetrics

Pick carefully, pick advisors that can help fill gaps in your company from a knowledge / information perspective. Most advisors are extremely busy so I usually don't recomm... (more)

What do you think about the digital divide? Am working on a startup from an 'emerging market' country. I could not register for cloud computing hosting like amazon and Micr...

Answered by Michael Garrity – Founder, CommunityLend

The Internet is global and is likely benefiting the emerging world economy even faster than the emerged world economies. That said there are some areas which still lag lik... (more)

How does startup company attract people to join? With limited funding, startups can't afford to hire many full time employees on a purely salary basis. So how do we attrac...

Answered by Dan Martell – Founder & Investor.

Your product / site has to rock. Something awesome / beautiful and inspiring will go a long way - so be very thoughtful in how your public identity is portrayed. At the e... (more)

When it comes to user-generated content, how do you go about getting quality content and making it rise to the top?

Answered by Shahar Nechmad – Founder, NuConomy

Getting quality content on your site means attracting quality users. Doing this mainly requires giving these users some sort of incentive to spend time and effort on your s... (more)

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