mbeihoffer

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I'm a serial startup founder that has yet to hit it "bigtime". (I am not sure that I entirely want to, as it doesn't always seem to bode well for the company founders. But I digress.)

My main business entity consists of my co-founder and myself, and we own a half-dozen sub-entities, each of which is remarkable in that they are all equally more or less profitable (or not profitable, much, at all, depending on which way you want to look at things.)

We work very hard to obtain and retain clients, and most of our work revolves around building websites for small businesses. I am adept at PHP programming (11+ years) but much prefer to program in Perl (with Catalyst as my framework for web apps) to do heavy lifting.

That being said, since most of our clients generally choose one of our preferred open-source CMS solutions, I don't typically have to do much programming in either PHP or Perl to get our projects done. Mostly, I develop custom themes, install and configure plug-ins and modules, and provide brand...

  1. Hello, all, I have a question that we've been struggling with recently: Do you know of any known, established official (or even completely unofficial) useful metric by which a brand or website, or a web application, or…