There are a few options. If you've done the basics through Codecademy, then you're ready to move on to the specifics of a platform (such as PostgreSQL as you've mentioned). Though this can equally be a minefield. The reporting engines/formats differ from platform to platform. As does SQL believe it or not, in the sense each of the mainstream vendors adds their own specific bits to the standard. They are all compliant for the basics though. All of them will support the latest version of SQL (ANSI standard 2011), but PL/SQL is different to Transact-SQL in the way it uses cursors. In addition, each has an even bigger variation when it comes to multidimensional queries such as MDX, since there is no standard for MDX and some vendors use their own expressions and languages to carry out such queries. I can certainly help with tutoring, having been working in SQL since 1997 (and still do), although I think it's worth focussing on getting a little better at the specifics of the SQL vendor extensions you want to use, including their Cube, Pivot and Grouping functions as well as more complex joins, as they'll be the baseline skills for future reporting exercises, including analytical processing.

I found some helpful information here https://developers.google.com/adwords/scripts/ It looks like a basic understanding of JavaScript is sufficient to write your own script. There's a 17 minute video on that page that gives a good introduction to deploying a custom script. Best of luck!

Eastern Europe is a big place and each country has different requirements and constraints for money transfer. So, it really depends on the desitnation you are sending money to. The most common type of payment is wire transfer, as many countries in that region don't allow PayPal. If PayPal is available that's very popular, and after that you see everything from moneybookers to bitcoin being used as payment. In our experience, it's best to ask your developers what they prefer and try to accommodate them. The reason is that it's usually (but not always) a bit more trouble for the offshore team to receive/handle the inbound payments than it is for you to send them. For example, for some companies in Ukraine the easiest way is to receive wire transfers. But, they might need to to have a signed copy of the invoice that you are paying and present it to the bank each time you make a payment, just to get a released. There are also a lot of fees that your vendor might need to pay for inbound payments, etc. Compare that to the US where you can easily send a wire transfer only and for a small fee. Services like Skrill or PayPal are generally easier although it still might be tricky for the vendor to redeem money and sometimes it takes a while for them. The 2 or 3 percent fees with those services is frequently, but not always cheaper. In terms of legality, this shouldn't really be a concern as any legitimate payment technique should be fine legally. Basically, if you are making a legitimate payment for a legitimate service to a legitimate vendor, there is no reason to think that any standard and reasonable payment system would not be appropriate legally. Just make sure that, in the event anyone were to ask, you could quite easily provide evidence that the services and payment were legit. I disagree that you need to be concerned about money laundering as mentioned in another answer below. If you are legitimately engaged with an overseas software team and nothing illegal is going on, there should be plenty of documentation, emails, and delivered code to easily prove that what you are doing is legit in the very unlikely event that the IRS or government were to inquire.

What's the business model for the freelancing platform? Have you looked at http://equitydirectory.com/? They are a startup concierge matchmaking subscription service for founders looking to share equity or cash/equity splits with contributors. Are you familiar with http://SlicingPie.com? I think a dynamic equity split system like Mike Moyer's "Grunt Fund" is a perfect match for a platform approach to startup collaboration.

I recommend you do some A/B (or "Split") testing. Choose a sample of your audience and market the product at $0.99. Market the same product to another group at $5. We expect that the lower price option will sell more, but we don't know until we experiment. In my experience, sometimes a lower price lowers the received value of the product in the mind of the consumer. If they expected to pay more of it, there is a chance that they will be leery of the lesser-priced item. Additionally, if you market your product correctly, and enable the buyer to value the product more, you can surely charge the higher price. Consider the price versus value of a bottle of water. If you have been stuck in the desert for a week with no water, what do you *value* the water? What is it worth to you? $1? $10? $100? Probably $100. If you are floating in the middle of a large fresh water lake, what value is that same bottle? $1? $10? $100? Probably $0. On a hot day after mowing the lawn? Probably $1. Same bottle. Different value. I hope this helps. -Shaun *I assume your product is not really $0.99 or $5; you can still apply this tactic.

Focus on your audience, not on yourself. Focus on the one thing -- not three things, and certainly not fifteen -- that makes your company distinctive from your competition. Think about your brand personality: cute and perky? bold and strong? serious and thoughtful? Now look for vocabulary and constructions that fit your personality. Use Twitter to practice distilling your message. Nothing like a 140-character limit to force you to be succinct. Use the thesaurus tool at Visual Thesaurus to explore constellations of synonyms: www.visualthesaurus.com In your case, I'd focus on words from the lexicon of music. See my posts on building a better tagline: http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2012/03/building-a-better-tagline-part-2.html

Here are some quick and easy tips: 1) To make it easier for bots to crawl your site, link to important pages within your site with simple HTML URLs (not through javascript). 2) Add Alt tags to all your images 3) To choose keywords, search google with each keyword to see how many results come up for each. Then use google trends (google.com/trends/) to see how popular each of those keywords is. If two keywords have similar popularity, but one has much less competition (i.e. less results in google), then that keyword is preferable. After all that, explicitly ask google to crawl your site by using 'google webmaster tools' (google.com/addurl) Here's a nice guide for further info: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo and you can use this site to do quick audits of your site as you continue to work on it: https://website.grader.com/ As you move forward, if any issues come up feel free to send me a message, best, Lee

I'm unclear about your requirement for "industrial". But i can offer Nimbus Portal Technologies as a success - they offer document management and secure team/client communications in the cloud. http://www.nimbushome.com/ They are the dominant supplier in AU/NZ mainly because they integrate with Practice Management software. If you can clarify your question further, I may be able to better answer.

I have a full list of professional having details like: NPI PAC ID Professional Enrollment ID Name Gender Credential Residency Residency Graduation Date Fellowship Hospital Fellowship Graduation Year Medical school name Medical School Graduation year Board Certifications Primary specialty Organization legal name Organization DBA name Line 1 Street Address Line 2 Street Address City State Zip Code Primary Source LinkedIn Page Would you want to see this?

HubSpot's Sidekick (www.shaunnestor.com/recommends/sidekick <-- affiliate link, otherwise, www.getsidekick.com) and their CRM work with each other to identify this kind of data. I'd be happy to work with you and show you how to use them. All the best, -Shaun

Very few brands will openly discuss how much they spend in advertising. This is a highly-sensitive data and a competitive advantage. You can use industry averages for cost of acquisitions, however. If you use $1 per click and/or $15 per client acquisition, for example, you can do simple math to figure out what your marketing budget should be. Measuring, improving, and showing ROI is a topic more complex than I want to get into on this forum. If you'd like, we can schedule a call or schedule some training on this. All the best, -Shaun

Your skills would be most useful if you were starting your own startup and needed to make an early prototype to show to investors or potential cofounder developers. Your experience in debugging, testing, and agile, could help you get a job as a product manager, and the fact that you have a background in some sort of 'coding' will help too. It's very unlikely that it would help you get an actual dev job though, since you wouldn't be able to translate your programs into actual code that could be taken over/continued by other devs. Even if the programs you mentioned do allow you to export as code, it's unlikely that it would be exported in a way that's very usable by other devs.

So my first question is, "What the heck is that?!" Like you're a purple-and-yellow zebra-striped three-foot tall jungle bird. I have no idea what that is, that certification. And your target market won't, not right off the bat, either. They aren't looking for a "Strategic Intervention Coach". They aren't searching for that term. No one cares about your certification until AFTER they've realized the problem they're in...and are looking for a way out. Find out what they *are* searching for. Get in front of them that way. Your certification is valuable, but only after you've found someone who's in the terrible situation that you know you can help them out of. Write a Kindle book (or several) addressing the most common symptom(s) of situations that indicate a serious problem you are capable of fixing. Make Youtube videos about the same subject(s). Drive viewers to a signup form or your book(s). Buy clicks on search terms your target market is already using to find help from. Send them to your solutions. Talk about the symptoms of their problem first: don't jump into "I'm a Robbins-Madanes-Certified coach." They don't care yet. Do that second, not first. Referrals. Here's where I'd put 70%+ of my sales & marketing effort. What people refer those who are in the problematic situations you fix to someone like you? I'd imagine it's hard enough doing what you do. Why add the problems of prospecting and qualifying to that? Have people who understand what you can do send you already-qualified prospects. People ready to buy. Don't forget...you still have to SELL. If you'd like to go through some details on these items, and look at a few more possibilities, let's talk.

I think we need to reframe the question around what audience do you want to serve? Who do you want to help? Focus on building the best possible resource to solve a certain problem, and trust that the money will follow. One affiliate example I often point to is TripAdvisor. They didn't set out to "become an affiliate and build a website." They set out to build an authoritative brand in the travel space, and now earn a ton of money from flight and hotel bookings as an affiliate. They solve a specific problem (with my limited travel budget, what are my best options?) and found a way to monetize that.

You should ask a patent attorney.

Does it pass the "smell test"? Does the information make sense? Does it seem logical? Did you try it? Call me skeptical, but when I see folks selling the "proven blueprint to making millions in your sleep", I keep walking. If I had the secret money-making formula to make everyone in the world rich, why would I share it for $79.99? Why would I have to "sell" people on the idea. I would just show my friends and family and retire knowing I helped them. To make money, one must follow some well-established, foundational traits. Buy low, sell high. Repeat. A lot of great education can be found online, in books, and by speaking with some of these experts. But it should be applied to your unique situation, you are not like them and they are not like you. If you are looking for a risk-free, guaranteed way of making money and believe it can be found in a single book ... you are exactly who the author hopes will buy it.

Happy to sign a reasonable NDA and take a call.

The first question I have is why would anybody pay for something they can get for free... Unless the free "whatever" is so difficult to get and free ends up being a lot of money (ie time). If you have a value proposition to take away the pain, then that's a start. Once you have established value, then you can determine who is willing to pay what for it.

Choosing a business name is a real hang up for some people. I've met would-be entrepreneurs that get so hung up on the perfect name that they never start! That being said a great name is very important. Gone are the days when a name has to have any industry specific meaning (look at Google, Twitter, Apple, etc). In my opinion Logixess and Logixeed are a little hard to pronounce and do not roll off the tongue. Below is a link to a great tool for choosing a name, which also gives you available domains. I created the name for my company "Zapaty" with this tool. Best of luck! Here is the link. http://www.bustaname.com/word_maker If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out.

Your emails have a lot of room for improvement. You have to: 1) Give a 1 sentence intro 2) Get right to the point quickly in a clear and easy to understand way. Eliminate all the long winded and confusing language (i.e. everything in quotes: "business attitudes towards....provision") 3) Most people will be very wary of clicking links in a cold-call email. Both because it would take time, and because they're expecting to see a huge survey and/or a crappy app made by some schmo. To get around that negative bias, include an impressive screenshot of your app, and include all the questions of your survey, or if it is super long, include just the most interesting questions to pique their interest. Have those things be in-line, not as attachments. Doing these things will help make them curious and help convince them that it's worth clicking on the link (they'll trust you more). 4) If allowed in this project, look into other routes other than emails. For instance: A) Post it to relevant subreddits (https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaAndBetaUsers, https://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject, etc.). B) Mail a small gift (e.g. a small chocolate) to companies, and have a note on the chocolate with an intro and a link (use an URL shortener) and QR code. Even if they don't go to the link on the note, you could do a follow up email in which you mention that you previously sent them the gift, which will increase your success.

Where do millennial and gen z artists hangout? What are their burning pains and aspirations? What language do they use? Do you truly understand what they really want? My perspective is that creating solutions to your target market's burning problems will increase your chances of success as a business. Your business having the same values as your target market is fantastic, but it won't mean much if you're not delivering what they're willing to pay for. I hope I understood your question correctly.

I am not an accountant or an attorney and this is not "professional advice." As a Canadian living in the US, my understanding as you have dual citizenship is that you must pay US taxes on everything you make anywhere in the world. So in addition to any taxes you may pay Canada, you must pay taxes on those earnings to the US as well. I don't yet have dual citizenship, so I have not crossed this Rubicon myself. However, it has been on my mind the past five years or so. Speak to a US tax accountant specializing in these situations and get their advice. Spend the $200 or whatever for an hour consultation with that accountant if you have to--it's a tax-deductible expense and money well spent. Maybe speak to more than one, because you know if you speak to two people you can get two completely different answers based on their personal knowledge and experience. Off the cuff, if I was in your shoes I'd incorporate in the US. But again, I'm not a tax accountant or an attorney and don't have all the information.

Why don't you put "Company" from the beginning? Your branding should also reflect this without losing the sense of community, no matter how big it gets.

What an interesting concept (and I'm being polite with the word "interesting'). Your customers, who pay for your service, should do the leg work to be your cheerleaders for your business so that you can lock in your Biggest customer (the end business buyer)? There is absolutely no reason your customers should be talking to the "potential suitor" in a cold call (they make the outreach) scenario. If it's a "suitor" (they are pursuing you), then they already have interest. Your focus instead should be on how to turn "interest" (which is about as a common as bad ideas) into "motivated interest". The subtle difference being that they have a specific, motivating reason to pursue the deal with some margin of urgency and seriousness.

At the agency I started, we tackled this by working toward higher visibility in the industry. For example, when I was growing the agency years ago, I wrote articles for sites like Smashing Magazine, Nettuts, CSS-Tricks, and so on — this granted authority and presence to my agency. Then, my team and I started attending (and, ideally, speaking at) conferences wherever possible. Again, this lent us authority and presence. In both cases, we were putting ourselves out to the community at large as a professional agency with deep expertise that was capable of handling large projects. This alone led to inquiries from several agencies, which was great: we had effectively manufactured a referral network for ourselves by writing and speaking. After that, we started attending local design meetups and events. I'd seek out agency developers, product managers, producers, and anyone with the title "technical lead" from the larger agencies, and then — WITHOUT PITCHING ANYTHING — I'd try to get to know them and hear about their problems, and I'd share anything I could to help. Word got out that my company was friendly, helpful, and not just trying to work angles for contracts. And as a result we landed a lot of contracts from agencies, and regularly booked $50K+ projects. It's not exactly a quick formula to follow, but that good will has followed me AFTER I sold my company, and I'm still working with fantastic companies who seek me out — so while it's not fast, it's a very sustainable approach. I'd be happy to discuss specifics with you and help you lay out a concrete strategy if you're interested. Good luck!