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For those of you who answered yes - could you elaborate more? And also shed some light to new founders on what to look out for, questions to ask, red flags to look out for, and advice in general when choosing investors?

how do I integrate your service into my app? do I have to use API calls & is there an admin panel that's exposed?

OP what is your startup? curious!

do you have examples?

where did you get your stats from?

Wow! Your app looks impressive.. I think your team stands a good chance of being invited for an interview. How long have you been hacking on it?

that's a good suggestion.. will look into it. am just worried that it won't give me a deep enough understanding/customisation compared to Opsworks..

thanks! it looks like a good guide to getting started with Opsworks and Chef

We are trying to create a mobile-first (tablet and iPhone) solution to managing sales pipelines for small/medium companies. This is because we personally found salesforce too bloated for our needs. I would love to chat more with you about your needs, and see if we could tailor our upcoming products to what you need.. (and do some customer development!)

Email me at [email protected] if you want to chat more! :)

Startups are overrated. Start a service-based business. Start alone. For the first 3 - 6 months, focus on building a portfolio of good work and references. For the next 6 - 12 months, focus on steadily increasing your rates/prices and bring on-board one or two technical people to help you on a freelance basis. You must continue to do sales and ask for referrals. The next 12 - 24 months, focus on scaling your services and capacity. I know it's easier said than done - but this is what worked for me.

Background: 25 years old this year, software development firm made $500k in revenue so far in 2013.

Caveat: 1 million dollars revenue != 1 million dollars profit. Huge difference.

What is your company called? Have a URL? Just curious..

And come back as interim CEO?

nice to hear that rdouble! how did you get hired, and were you hacking on your own projects/code before that?