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As a side-project to my IT Consultancy business, I have developed a software product which I intend to sell. The URL for the new product is at http://www.scichart.com I am partnering with...

Payments International

asked Feb 19 '12 at 08:21

Andrew Burnett Thompson
193 points

I am about to build a service where a virtual currency is a vital part. The kind of virtual money, I am talking about here something, which is conceptually equivalent to money in a game like second...

Marketing Trust

asked Feb 13 '12 at 04:58

David
1,567 points

Does anyone know of a book that details the typical day to day routine of a CEO of a company? We all know the high level duties that a CEO must perform, but then I have yet to find good...

Books Company CEO

asked Feb 19 '12 at 16:04

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

I was just wondering what start-up costs would be for an e-learning service. I plan to start one geared at providing supplementary content for school children in the vein of Khan Academy and such....

Money

asked Feb 13 '12 at 06:41

Methuselah
105 points

My Company & Personal Background I have never hired/managed a sales person, but I would like to hire my first. From when I founded the company 3 years ago up until now, I've only received...

Sales Salary Compensation Commission

asked Feb 13 '12 at 08:09

Clint
695 points

I am considering using a small picture as my logo. The picture is of the Earth shaped into a light bulb. What could be the disadvantages of not using a drawing as a logo?

Logo

asked Feb 13 '12 at 09:08

David
1,567 points

Imagine a dating community like meetic, where you can register for free, but you must pay every 6 months for using all the functionalities. Which will be your strategy for your launch, taking into...

Launch Monetization Social Network

asked Feb 19 '12 at 23:16

Jmp
4 points

I've pre-launched my start-up two days ago. After being featured on a few sites, we now have a good influx of subscribers. Now I know an inevitable slow down subscribers will happen if I don't act...

Marketing Development Leads

asked Feb 8 '12 at 09:39

User744319
94 points

Approached by 2 founders that are very early days of executing an idea. They have some good .com properties that will be central to brand/idea and had recent offers around $100K, with one outlier...

Funding Co-Founder Equity Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 8 '12 at 12:24

Jjj
21 points

Possible Duplicate: what's more important - .com or name? I am in the very early stages of what I hope to be a very profitable company. It is solely an online presence (think Digg, twitter,...

Getting Started Strategy Website

asked Feb 8 '12 at 14:57

Joe
99 points

I would like to know which country's laws I must abide by when conducting online business. Let's say I want to sell VPNs and here in the UK, this was illegal. In Holland this is legal however (as...

Legal Government Registration Income

asked Feb 2 '12 at 20:08

Jwbensley
113 points

My start-up is going to provide B2B custom software development services on a project by project basis. I have been talking to a prospective sales agent, who would take over the following...

Sales B2B Compensation Service Rates

asked Feb 2 '12 at 21:31

Phil
13 points

Let's consider jQuery is an example project for my question. jQuery is the most renown java script open source software framework nowadays. It was created when working with JavaScript was a real...

Funding Software Monetization Open Source

asked Feb 2 '12 at 21:44

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

I'm trying to get the first batch of my product from China to the US. The products are not enough to fill a shipping container, but will be too expensive to do airfreight. How long does Ocean...

Shipping

asked Feb 8 '12 at 20:24

User106377
96 points

Looking for early market validation re our startup idea, we did a simple smoke test: we created a facebook ads campaign, linked it to a launchrock page and looked to see what happened. We set a $20...

Testing Market Opportunity

asked Feb 2 '12 at 23:09

Guidupuy
8 points

One of the most important aspects determining any business is the Return on Investment (ROI) it brings. ROI is something that is based on estimates and projections based on assessments made of...

Ecommerce

asked Feb 8 '12 at 22:00

Akshy
6 points

One of the toughest questions that ecommerce businesses face concerns what is at the heart of a business –customer satisfaction. At first glance, anyone doing ecommerce business or having an...

Software Ecommerce Technology

asked Feb 8 '12 at 22:03

Akshy
6 points

So i'm running a startup and i get to sign a lot of paperwork, It really annoys me to fill in the details of a PDF, print it, sign it, then scan it again. Is it legal to sign my signature on a...

Legal

asked Feb 2 '12 at 23:44

Mark
31 points

I've been reading up on VAT as it looks like this year we may need to register. We are in the UK, and sell digital goods on our website (one piece of software). As I understand it, if someone...

Tax VAT

asked Feb 8 '12 at 22:33

Tom
480 points

Since there's no way to issue a 1099 (and it would be worthless), what's the correct way to 'pay' a foreign contractor or employee without setting up a company in that country? From my research,...

Foreign Tax

asked Feb 3 '12 at 00:18

Michael Pryor
2,250 points