kreedskulls

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your responses.

Looked at oDesk.com I need my guys to be inHouse, actually come into the office day by day, any Ideas for that outside of normal job posting sites?

thanks!

What's so hard about a kid selling candy. I sold candy in my Middle School and High School even though it wasn't allowed. I was the candy man and everyone knew it. Most kids aren't trying to build a Candy Empire or even know what they are doing takes guts. Some kids just wanted a better option like myself. Eventually I stopped selling candy to go into programming artificial intelligence for video games, which I eventually stopped doing because I was not a great programmer and decided to run my own business which is doing great.

Was me selling candy the only reason I decided to run my own business eventually or was the fact that I had the mindset to sell the candy just who I was destined to be?

I can't answer that but I will say that when you look back on it at a later time you can say hey, I was business minded even as a child and didn't know it. I think that is where these stories come from.

What have you done to help him get better? My Co-Founder made me a much better business person than I was before I met him and I was able to reciprocate that favor to him as well. If you understand how he is then you should learn how to motivate him and make him better.

It seems to me he did all the grunt work in the beginning maybe he feels like he is being used.

You should talk to him and Fix it.

From the research I have done DMOZ helps you with ranking better for Generic Results when you get Listed in their Database.

Maybe you create a website that will connect single founders with their co-founder. It's almost impossible to have a successful start-up on your own.

It seems that he responded to this one, you should have asked your question instead!

Could a website be re-designed from HTML into a Wordpress Platform?

The Second gives you the space for more content on home page, the third looks the best.

If you can combine those two it would look awesome.

What platform are you using? Are you developing them yourself or using templates?

To me it sounds like you are looking to hire an employee who you plan to give some shares to.

Honestly I wouldn't bring on a co-founder unless the risk was equal. His payment for now should be the Shares that he will get for being the Co-Founder until the business starts bringing in Cash.

I would add some type of Categories, the current trends bar is cool but If I want something particular it should be easier to look at all things for that particular area like electronics or clothing

Where can I find information on A/B Testing?

Thanks,

I agree, I have been working for free for 3 years so far on my start-up but we have been ramen-profitable from the start and I am a Co-founder who has Co-founder stock. He sounds like he didn't know they were getting funded or anything, and who will let someone invest 100k and he only held 4%. They should have applied to Y-Combinator.

It's sad that they were taken advantage of but you have to have someone on your side, it seems that he didn't know what was going on in his own company.

Thanks, I would like to get into Y-Combinator more for the Network than anything.

Shaolin Eagle Claw Kung-fu or Shaolin Xing Yi Quan!

I could see that but a friend has no bond and a few k in good poker winnings might not get the same result as 100k of losses.

I would start a Y-Combinator Branch in Atlanta!

Pay us in Karma points!

If it wouldn't hurt your father then accept his money and leave the friend out of it. As a father you want your children to be successful and if you failed he would be there to pick you up.

Seeing that your father started his own business and now it is doing great, he should have a solid understanding of what he is getting into.

Your friend on the other hand seems to not understand the risk so I would leave him out of it.

Thanks for all the advice, since we don't use the blog for a source of revenue we don't have to have ads. I would like to have it customized better, so the next designer for my site I will probably have them customize the blog to match the site or just do Posterous.

Sounds like to me you need to understand your environment and take advantage of the opportunity. If you work for a very cool web development company then learn everything you can while building your own thing on the side.

Hello Terry, I appreciate the referral!

If you aren't interested that's fine, My start-up wouldn't even qualify for Y-Combinator but that has nothing to do with what they represent. I think its great, you should keep negative thoughts to yourself.

Some people won't get anywhere without the network so who are you to tell them to not follow their dreams because you don't want them to Sell Out.

Last time I checked most Start ups can't wait to Sell Out to someone...

Who would be a good person to hire to Re-develop/design my website for me?

http://www.safeb4sorry.com any thoughts?

Thanks,

So what are some things that I could do outside of Front End SEO. Keep in mind that I sell Life Insurance so the main objective of the page is to Create Real Time Leads.

Thanks,

I am not sure how to answer that question. I know that no optimization was done to it during its build and that some of the pages aren't coded the same when I do a Dreamweaver / view source.

SafeB4Sorry - http://www.safeb4sorry.com

Any thoughts? We are a Life Insurance Agency!