Hello, Congrats on creating your own agency. Software developers and clients often speak 2 different languages and your job is to communicate between then effectively. For your questions 1. This can happen, the agency is the project manager. Manages requirements, user needs, spec document, ...
Finding a cofounder is tough, especially at early stage. I think the way your are approaching it make sense and I followed a similar path. Once you have developed an MVP you will have more to show both to potential cofounders, employees and investors. This will also allow you to raise some see...
Honestly, through trial and error. Be lean and nimble. If something is not working, change. If it does work, keep sticking your bucket down the hole until the well runs dry.
You need some sort of functional prototype (i.e. something that actually, in some way, does what you want it to do). Nobody will invest without one. You said you're too low on funds to have one built, so my best advice would be to spend some time learning the skills needed to build it yourself. Y...
Hourly rate is the worst way to charge for your expertise. That's an employee mentality. Charge per project and charge for outcome. People don't care what the hourly rate, they want to know if I pay you X, you're going to deliver the Y results I am looking for.
Great question! I've said it before and I'll say it again: Asia is growth and you cannot afford to not have an Asia growth strategy, regardless of the size of your company. I've been based here in Singapore for nearly 5 years and have observed how Singapore's leaders have worked hard to position ...
I'd recommend looking into these options: https://www.fiverr.com/ (do a search for QA) https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/ (e.g. pay $1 per bug committed to Trello) https://www.scaleapi.com/ https://www.mturk.com/ If you'd like to discuss managing the software testing in more detail ...
For whatever reason, Quotes are immensely popular and one of the highest searched terms on Search Engines. Now, because there are countless Apps already, you'd definitely need to monetize with advertising or perhaps implementing something that the user could personalize the quotes with. Pictures...
It will depend upon your relationship with the investor. If the investor have trust upon you, then you may pitch anytime, however, if you don't know the investor for long, then you have to follow a process. You may setup a call to discuss more.
This question leads me to believe there are a limited number of people in the company. With that said, and I mean this sincerely; why do you need a title? If you are a key person in an early stage start-up what will the title do for you? Will it pigeon hole you into a specific role or skill set w...