Today’s question comes from Tim. I hired a team to develop my app since I don’t know much about coding. How can I protect myself from someone taking my code and building another app with it?

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Today’s question comes from Ken. As a technical founder, where do you start with marketing and sales? Should you go out and find a marketing focused co-founder?

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Today’s question comes from Eric and deals with market research. Specifically, what’s the most effective way to do market research before launching your company?

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Today’s question comes from Leroy. Leroy’s questions has to do with how to pitch a product that doesn’t exist yet. How can you pitch from just an idea without a product or prototype to back it up?

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Today’s question is from Michael. My partner and I are in pre-development for an online app. We are doing some user feedback surveys and thought about doing a prototype of the game that people could play while providing feedback. Is there anything else we should be doing to get feedback at this time?

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Today’s question comes from Thomas and he has question about technical outsourcing. I have a strong idea for an app but I’m torn between hiring a development company and bringing on a technical co-founder. What are the pros and cons of each?

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Today’s question comes from Benji. I’ve been thinking about building an app, but I’ve heard a lot about app fatigue. Do you have ideas on how we can keep people engaged?

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Today’s question comes from Steve. I want to pay my team when they are able to get me a meeting and then structure it so they get paid a higher percentage if the deal closes. How can I assure my team that they are getting paid appropriately for how they setup meetings? What are other incentives I can use?

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Today’s question comes from Tamara. What is your philosophy on how much ownership you want your sales team to have as far as the company and its goals and direction are concerned?

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Today’s question comes from Rocky. I’ve been following a startup for a while and there was some early traction, they seemed to be growing, and they had good press. However, it now looks like they are out of business. What would cause that?

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