Questions

How do I calculate how much my UK limited company earns in British Pounds if I take payments in foreign curriencies (Polish zloty and Euros), and how I then know how much tax I need to pay? In...

Currency Ltd

asked Feb 8 '12 at 07:20

Lukeshek
452 points

I am the CEO of a rapidly growing startup and our growth has begun to outpace our resources as a 3 person organization. So we have begun looking around for people to hire, both as programmers, as...

Getting Started Hiring Employees

asked Feb 8 '12 at 07:55

Jason
279 points

I am pursuing an opportunity as an outside consultant to an established company, but don't really know how to package my services. Here are a couple of models I have come across: Charge a...

Pricing Marketing IT Consulting Service

asked Jan 27 '12 at 06:33

J.Rightly
106 points

I am based at India and have one developed product which is targeting to Indian market. It can be changed easily to cater western market too. Along with that we have consulting and project...

Selling

asked Feb 2 '12 at 15:57

Denish
13 points

I've made a proposal to a prospect and he suggested we have a 'business lunch' and eventually continue afterwords in their office. How should I prepare for it? Any DOes and DONTs? P.S. This is...

Pitch

asked Jan 27 '12 at 06:35

Simpatico
198 points

What is the name of a business model where you offer a product for free to entice people to use your service? I'm not referring to freemium. I am more talking about how Google works. They offer...

Marketing Definitions Business Model

asked Feb 2 '12 at 17:53

Daveo
113 points

My sister and I started a small company. I don't mind working with her. So far, we've been doing well and have managed to keep our professional issues separate from our family life. The problem is...

Hiring Employees Human Resources

asked Feb 2 '12 at 18:13

March Robert Philip Serrano
152 points

I have an idea I am working on that I believe will be useful. I have been told that verbally several times. Rather than spend money on developing it to completion, I want my proposed...

Getting Started Contract Legal Legal Documents

asked Feb 2 '12 at 18:35

Oo The Nigerian
11 points

I'm about to bring on two partners in my LLC. However both have indicated that the "partnership" would be between my company and each of their incorporated entities. Is that normal? What is the...

LLC Partnerships

asked Jan 27 '12 at 09:36

Chris Lively
443 points

We are a new company and have developed an online service that we want to charge a monthly fee to use. So far, we have tried two merchant account providers and have been turned down because we are...

UK Merchant Account Payment Gateway

asked Feb 2 '12 at 19:10

Woo Hoo
193 points

Our startup has a person who holds a very high percentage of the company's common stock. We don't have any money yet, and we've been working for a year. This guy has done an extremely minimal...

Co-Founder Company Shares

asked Jan 27 '12 at 10:16

Pasham
26 points

I would like to have a clarification over this case: http://www.genomeweb.com/illumina-creates-poison-pill-response-roche-bid Does this mean that if anybody buys shares today, they will be able to...

Shares

asked Jan 27 '12 at 20:33

6152142613526
68 points

My question concerns a new business: I belong to a team or software developers. Up until now, we've each done our "own thing", as self-employed workers. Altogether, our business takes place in the...

Getting Started

asked Jan 27 '12 at 22:03

Chu
21 points

I live in a country, Australia, where I can get upwards of 5% interest per annum on cash deposits held in a bank account. Having parents-in-law who live in a country, Japan, that offers about 0.02%...

Foreign Investors

asked Jan 27 '12 at 23:21

Angus
5 points

At our startup we have a software on premise business. We offer a system, for about 20k. The client needs support for the system for 3 years, that includes to fix it if it fails no matter how many...

Pricing Support

asked Jan 28 '12 at 03:23

Ricardo Polo
111 points

I am an American with (a bit of) a marketing background, though currently I live in Minsk, Belarus. I recently met the CEO of a very tiny Software Development start-up, and we developed a friendly...

Marketing Outsourcing Offshore

asked Jan 28 '12 at 03:56

Davey Boy
55 points

I have bootstrapped a startup and am at the stage where I need salespeople who can go out and acquire some customers. Online marketing doesn't seem to be helping since my startup is a B2B focusing...

Marketing Sales Customers

asked Jan 28 '12 at 09:02

User15995
42 points

I'm considering starting a company with a few friends. Each of us are single guys. We're wondering, is it legal or common for a company to require other owners to sign a prenup in the event they...

Founders Agreement Business Partnerships Agreements

asked Jan 28 '12 at 13:58

Dave
124 points

Upon what criteria should I price an online product? Since I am going to design an E-Commerce website like countryreports.org, I am not sure how to price the individual packs that I am going to...

Ecommerce

asked Jan 28 '12 at 20:28

Gn Sagar
1 point

Lets say you have just graduated from uni/college and you have a wonderful idea which you think you wanted to do. You know programming but you don't know the relevant skills to make it happen {...

Getting Started Industry

asked Jan 28 '12 at 22:11

Itsaboutcode
101 points