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I'm helping my dad expand his local business to multiple locations in Houston. What's the cheapest way to get additional phone #s for this expansion? Edit: Would twilio work for this? Need to have numbers local to…

We're trying to decide b/w: a) using quickbooks or b) using indinero and giving our CPA access to our account and having him categorize our transactions and export them to his quickbooks. Has anyone used both? What are…

Considering I can edit multiple file types in google apps and access them from anywhere and share them with anyone, what are the advantages of using dropbox over google apps?

We are about to launch a product and were originally planning on using paypal for taking payments (until we get our own merchant account). However, with all the recent posts about paypal's draconian policies, we began…

When pg published his article on 'High Resolution Fundraising', I was barely able to follow along. Then Patrick posted his explanation - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1655325 - and the clouds parted. However,…

The current version of 'mailto:' (http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_mailto) is broken. For one, it works in firefox but not in IE or chrome. And two, it only gives options for gmail and yahoo…

What are some of the popular consumer oriented sales startups today? The kind whose primary revenue source is from visitors paying for something? The immediate ones that come to mind are deal sites (groupon), dating…

After doing some research, this is what I've come up with - it's better to start off as an LLC (they are simple to set up, avoid double taxation and still support multiple classes of stock if needed) and convert to a…

I'm talking about specific tricks, not generalities. I'll start things off : Phone lines - Rather than setting up expensive business phone lines for all the desks in your office, use Skype. It’s free to connect with…

How long would it take a decent programmer to whip up a project management/task tracking program like basecamp from scratch? Any open source variations available? What about an internal communication system that's a…

For someone looking to be an angel investor or a VC, are there any guides to read about the subject? how to invest? what to look for? etc Basically, a good A to Z guide on being a VC

Anybody know what resources a startup would need to email it's subscribers? Obviously dedicated mailing servers are a must, but what else? Is there a reading list somewhere that goes into the process involved?

How much more processing does a dynamic PHP page require over the same page in static HTML?

Mashable has a nifty feature where all the images don't load when you log on. Instead, they load up one by one when you scroll down, significantly speeding up the page load time. How do they do this?

I recently inherited a little over $5 million. I don't have exorbitant dreams of penthouses or private planes so I'm not looking to turn this amount into $50 million or anything. Instead, I'm looking for ways to…

Apart from traditional ads, what avenues would you pursue to monetize a social media site's traffic? Assume loyal, returning visitors. 1. Subscriptions - based on the freemium model, where the basic features will be…

Even in 2009, there are some sites that don't provide RSS feeds. I'm adding feeds to my google reader and was wondering if someone could suggest a way to create an RSS feed for these sites that don't provide them?…

Ad rates on most sites are based on the number of unique visitors and overall pageviews. Enabling full feeds via RSS, as convenient as it is, drives a chunk of this traffic away from the site. Has anyone considered…

As a fledgling programmer, I need some advice. I made a list of languages to learn by next year and on the top of the list is C/C++ (figured that's a good place to start). However, a buddy of mine, an experienced…

I'm planning to spend the next few weeks beefing up on algorithms - starting with Algorithms in a Nutshell, followed by Algorithm Design Manual and Algorithms by Dasgupta. Before I start these books, I wanted a primer…