Questions

Background: I'm both administrative staff for a university, and I'm the owner of a small business. I've been working with a particular student at the university on some university grant work, and...

Hiring Legal USA Conflict Of Interest

asked Feb 2 '12 at 05:03

Smokris
121 points

I have an LLC with multiple partners (members) that work from home. We're a tech startup company. We each work from home, and want to take advantage of the home office tax deduction. Is this...

LLC Tax

asked Feb 2 '12 at 05:06

Box Cat
5 points

Possible Duplicate: Beta Testers: What is the best way to find good beta testers? I'm designing and developing a little project overview application. I'd like some people to test it, but so far...

Software Testing Beta

asked Jan 27 '12 at 02:31

Kslstn
1 point

I started as a single member LLC. I found some great partners. How do I add them into the LLC as members? What needs to be signed between us, is there a specific document we should maintain? Who...

LLC Partner California IRS

asked Feb 2 '12 at 05:13

Box Cat
5 points

We offer a SAAS and I am at the stage where we have a MVP and are looking to validate our assumptions which is that small shop owners will make more revenue by using our system. Our target...

Marketing Small Business MVP Validation

asked Jan 27 '12 at 02:44

User15995
42 points

I've started a freelance web development company. Up to now all my clients have been based in Canada and I have been collecting taxes for the government. I have been contacted by a Pub in the UK,...

Tax International Web Services Exporting

asked Jan 27 '12 at 03:06

Philip K
166 points

We are a UK private limited company who export from India direct to our customers in the UK, we are now looking to export from India into the US. My question is regarding the import duties and...

Tax USA VAT

asked Feb 2 '12 at 08:10

Dav
8 points

I have constructed a new personal information management system. It allows to organize personal matters in a new way. Can I file a patent to European Union? I live in Germany.

Ideas Legal Patent

asked Feb 2 '12 at 08:48

Steffen
101 points

I'm a tech founder of a startup in the very early stage. I'm looking to add a business development, sales, and marketing co-founder. However this guy is looking to invest 2 hours per day while i'm...

Equity

asked Jan 27 '12 at 03:51

Mark
31 points

I am looking for a reference on this topic. Every knows that the difference in cost between $100 and $99 is more than $1 in the minds of consumers. Thus prices ending in $99 are commonplace but...

Pricing Psychology

asked Feb 2 '12 at 10:47

Paperjam
394 points

I run a company that’s self funded and does not intend to go public (this might change due to the nature of the business). I have started to experience scale and traction, which means that I will...

Equity Stock Options Stocks

asked Jan 23 '12 at 00:01

Quintin
101 points

I have heard that there is lot has been done to make the European market tightly integrated (universal regulations across European Union, etc). So, I wonder if it is easier now to create a...

Scale Regulation

asked Jan 23 '12 at 02:22

Martin Lee
120 points

I'm curious about affiliate linking from my iOS app to products in the iTunes store. This seems like a great idea: just downloading my app implies users have entered their credit card information...

Affiliate Apps Niche

asked Jan 23 '12 at 02:38

Mr Database
129 points

I live in Austria, Europe. I am a software developer and I would like to distribute my software under the name of my company. So I consider the following: I might want to register the name for...

Company Logo Trademark Name

asked Jan 23 '12 at 02:38

Martin
130 points

I have a few ideas about how to find sponsors for a startup related event, but I'm interested in getting feedback. My objective is to either leverage their sponsorship to get more people to attend,...

Corporate Sponsorship Sponsorship

asked Jan 23 '12 at 07:16

Blunders .
899 points

In Europe, there is enormous tax differences between high tax and low-tax jurisdictions for holding IP (for example 60% for owners of a "3:12" Swedish company vs 5% for a Luxembourg IP...

Tax Intellectual Property

asked Jan 23 '12 at 09:11

User239558
228 points

I want to make wooden puzzles out of Star Wars characters and sell them on Etsy. Would this be considered a violation of copyright? They would not be explicitly stated as Star Wars puzzles but I...

Copyright

asked Jan 23 '12 at 12:00

Mecha
13 points

Recently I've been emailing local VCs with accelerator/partner programs (With only "contactus" and no application forms) in order to apply. The mail was the standard small bit a of background about...

Venture Capital Incubators Demo

asked Jan 23 '12 at 17:17

User744319
94 points

We have just lauched a website for our upcoming SPARQL Database Server. We would like to attract the interest of international seed investors, but we are not sure where to start looking. We are...

Funding Investment Investors Seed Funding Seed

asked Jan 23 '12 at 22:31

Inge Henriksen
101 points

I usually like selling our new product, but today I'm not very excited about it. It really reflects on the feeling in my sales-calls. How do I get more excited about it?

Marketing Sales Selling

asked Jan 24 '12 at 01:09

Kristoffer Nolgren
113 points