Questions

I'm a software developer with MANY personal ideas. Many of my ideas get implemented by other people throughout the years, which means they are viable. A life style I learned about is...

Entrepreneur

asked Feb 16 '12 at 02:52

Nur Ne
186 points

We had planned not to market our website that goes live in 8 weeks, but now going for the opposite. So we are building a website where users sign up and interact on the basis of XYZ (apologies for...

Marketing Launch Social Network

asked Feb 16 '12 at 03:50

Raj
24 points

I recently signed up for a membership card in my local supermarket. This membership card has a point system based on the amount you have paid on that store. For example if you 10 Euro of items you...

Benefits

asked Feb 16 '12 at 05:33

Nikolai
125 points

I'm from Germany and want to run small events (around 50 participants) in the United States, which involve the sale of tickets (probably online) and payment to contractors which contribute to the...

Incorporation Legal USA Events

asked Feb 16 '12 at 08:05

Benjamin
16 points

What kind of document would this be called? A little background: Party#1 is the programmer contracted to help build my website. He has signed an NDA/work for hire. Over the last couple months he...

Website Web Services NDA Legal Documents

asked Feb 16 '12 at 10:02

Kyle Berkley
31 points

I have applied for the registration of my company, but it might take around 3 months to get all the formalities clear. In the meantime, is it possible to approach any VC and ask for funding? I ask...

Funding

asked Feb 16 '12 at 16:27

Nitin Bansal
1 point

I was thinking it all right to work on my great concept during my free hours and weekend left from my day job. however, lately, I feel I cannot use this free time effectively due to job stress and...

Funding Day Job

asked Feb 16 '12 at 20:46

Ned
1 point

I am currently an owner of a US based single member LLC in Delaware which is in the startup stage. I am a US citizen, for what it matters. Physically, I am living in Poland, which is part of the...

Outsourcing Accounting

asked Feb 10 '12 at 20:45

Ever Tabs
108 points

We are building a startup, we are a few weeks away from our MVP launch. We have had some initial positive investor conversations with an angel and a couple VCs. One large VC that generally doesn't...

Funding Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 16 '12 at 22:15

Dmoore
11 points

Im asking this as im not sure whether it is better to have partners, who are good in more than one discipline (eg sales/marketing and development/programming), share their time across departments...

Co-Founder Partnerships

asked Feb 10 '12 at 21:48

I Scotts
152 points

Or are they isolated, where developers keep to themselves and sales people keep to themselves? Is there a need for developers to even collaborate with sales or marketing people, for example? Im...

Getting Started Team

asked Feb 10 '12 at 22:00

I Scotts
152 points

Two friends and myself are developing a mobile app that we will sell on the Apple app store and the Android marketplace. We have decided to form an LLC to sell the application. Two of us are...

LLC Mobile Apps

asked Feb 17 '12 at 01:58

Frank
26 points

We built a multi-tenant or whilabelable app so that each of our customers use it to communicate with their users and those users never know we exist. This is quite similar to Zendesk, Basecamp,...

Email

asked Feb 17 '12 at 02:05

J. Pablo Fernández
412 points

We're in the process of launching a "social contest and campaign builder" tech start-up, months away from launching in fact. What pre-launch strategies have worked for your start-up? What are the...

Getting Started

asked Feb 17 '12 at 05:47

Mike Barwick
133 points

A few years ago, I had an idea for a startup. I registered a domain name, Twitter account and formed an LLC but haven't done much since. I've just been emailed by an individual at Sedo asking if...

Selling Domain

asked Feb 11 '12 at 02:01

Chris
43 points

A few days ago I registered a limited company in the UK. I use a registered office in England (which is my company agent's office), and myself live in Poland, and my Polish address is given as the...

Contract UK Ltd

asked Feb 11 '12 at 02:32

Lukeshek
452 points

Assume that my company provides services (IT related). I want to offer those services to some companies. Probably those companies already have a provider, but I want to tell them why they need to...

B2B

asked Feb 17 '12 at 08:43

User194076
157 points

The CEO of a LLC early startup plans to assign non-dilutable equity to the founders. Each founder will take a small amount of equity, leaving a pool for future employees and investors. IMHO, what...

Co-Founder LLC Equity Dilution

asked Feb 11 '12 at 02:38

Anon User
62 points

The CEO of an early stage LLC plans to keep control of the company in the long term. To achieve this, he plans on keeping at least 51% of the equity. The company has 6 founders in total. While it...

Co-Founder LLC Equity

asked Feb 11 '12 at 04:31

Anon User
62 points

I am curious as to whether anyone has any insight into running a online retail business in the former Soviet Republics. Most of the western world is quite used to Credit Cards, and other electronic...

Online Retail

asked Feb 17 '12 at 09:03

Karlson
1,779 points