We run the largest independent app store in Canada and are fiercely committed to being indie. We store all of our images, icons and Android OBB files on Amazon S3 and sometimes our bills get totally unmanageable.
Having a least a portion of this credit would give us room to maneuver so we can polish up our Android and Blackberry 10 apps and with the money we save it would allow us to scale, rather than just get by.
I own a company and have been using ODESK for the last six years. I have spent nearly 35,000 on above average programmers, their normal rate of pay is anywhere between 15 and 65.00 an hour. At first, i selected this site because it was a good source of low paid talent, but then I realized there were some really solid developers/programmers using the service.
I only really had problem with 2-3 guys who said they were good, but you know during the job they were Googling answers to the problems I had and had no real experience, but for the most part, some great programmers there.
I recommend ODESK, as a buyer, I am super protected from people not following through, so i have some confidence, aside from hiring locally for temp/programming work, I always use Odesk.
I recommend working at other startups to get a sense on how people can properly execute ideas. You will also broaden your friend network and make friends with more startup minded people. This will assist you in your own endeavors.l Your problem is you have no one to talk to about business and no real connections. The most successful startups were people working in that culture, branching off, taking a few people with them and starting something great.
I run http://goodereader.com basically a website devoted to digital publishing, e-reader and eBook industry news.
Also, http://apps.goodereader.com which is our android/blackberry 10 app store, over 100,000 apps so far, in terms of sheer amount of apps, we're the 6th largest in the world right now.
Having a least a portion of this credit would give us room to maneuver so we can polish up our Android and Blackberry 10 apps and with the money we save it would allow us to scale, rather than just get by.
you can check out our app store http://apps.goodereader.com