Questions

I am working in a private company since 2 years as a application developer and now I am thinking to setup a company. I am not aware of the process(steps) to setup a company. What I know is if I...

Motivation Outsourcing Setup

asked Dec 21 '11 at 22:16

Dharmendra
101 points

we have the following complicated issue: US based company has an employee who is German citizen but lately lived in the US with a US Visa and work permit and hired at the US company company wants...

Tax International

asked Dec 22 '11 at 01:52

Martin
6 points

I'm 15, and an enthusiast programmer, I've built loads of web based applications, some of which have even been called useful after demo'ing them to others, apps that have not been created (atleast...

Legal Company Business

asked Dec 22 '11 at 01:53

Karan K
26 points

I'm a co-founder of a new startup with two other partners. I'm a designer and they are a developer and biz dev guy respectively. We are in the initial prototyping phase for the project and will be...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Partnership

asked Dec 22 '11 at 04:32

Local79
21 points

(background - few startups, business side) This is a situation that I've encountered a few times before. Seems not uncommon among startups. You're kicking around an idea - let's say there are 2-3...

LLC Equity Founders Agreement

asked Dec 22 '11 at 06:25

Jeff Townsend
21 points

I am looking to create a company with 6 founders. Reason being...I need them all and they are all genius. Because they are all already highly compensated at great companies, equity will be my only...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement Joint Venture Fundraising

asked Dec 22 '11 at 10:02

Dustin
11 points

I am asking particularly about software and IT services company, but I think question can be answered generally as same dilemma is shared by entrepreneurs of different industries.

Marketing Sales

asked Dec 22 '11 at 23:00

Ali
179 points

I am in talks with various international banks in India who're ready to provide us a US based bank account provided we meet their minimum balance requirements in a local bank. A US based account...

Tax Bank Account

asked Dec 22 '11 at 23:19

Ankur Jain
566 points

Basically, I am doing pay per feature for my desktop software. I offer a base version which is free, but has limited functionality. I also offer 15 day trial on specific features users wants to...

Trial Freemium Desktop

asked Dec 23 '11 at 01:14

Gagwgw
227 points

How is the typical OEM licensing payment term? For example if another party want to buy 50 licenses, do they need to pay in full amount ? or some percentage in initial agreement and the remaining...

Sales Software Licensing

asked Dec 23 '11 at 02:49

Jazar
123 points

I wondering how do I can determine the source code value if someone want to buy it ? For example, for $1000 product, how much is the source code value ?

Sales

asked Dec 23 '11 at 02:56

Jazar
123 points

I invented seven products related to cooking. I have paid for/budgeted for incorporation and provisional patent attorneys, monthly expenses, and an accountant. In February (PPA files in Jan) I will...

Selling Manufacturing

asked Dec 23 '11 at 03:58

Kelly Cooper
88 points

My company in Hong Kong is selling handphone accessories. We also have an online store. Because we have increasing customers in US, we are thinking to incorporate a company in US. This is to...

Incorporation Foreign Tax Resellers Distribution

asked Dec 16 '11 at 14:12

Paul12
18 points

I'm looking into the equity for the 2nd employee of an early-stage startup. I've seen lots of rules of thumbs out there (some people say 1%) but it's hard to apply because some rules of thumb refer...

Equity Employees Founders Compensation

asked Dec 16 '11 at 15:58

Led
16 points

When getting backlinks, should I point them to https://www.site.com or http://www.site.com? for reference, when someone goes on my site by typing in http://www.site.com or www.site.com they get...

SEO

asked Dec 16 '11 at 17:05

Dmurtagh
157 points

I had started a professional services business few years back. While starting up, I had raised some investment through friends and have given them a stake in the company. Over the years, I have...

Exit

asked Dec 10 '11 at 20:57

John
1 point

When my company first got setup and registered domains, we were unable to get the .com of our company name, as it was already registered. We have all of the other top level domains for our name...

Legal Trademark Domain

asked Dec 17 '11 at 03:31

Bwasson
1,162 points

Few of us, recent MBA grads, just launched an incubator for start ups in consumer goods and B2B business services. Already have a small team and a few qualified companies in the first class of the...

Incubators

asked Dec 11 '11 at 04:50

Kpin
26 points

Technical Background: I have an application that relies heavily on the Twitter API. This app is genuinely very useful for Twitter users across the board but especially for Twitter users who want to...

Marketing Ideas Twitter Promotion

asked Dec 17 '11 at 09:35

Chamilyan
353 points

I've been working on a web app for 4 months, and did some usability testing with about 10 people today, with mixed results. Some people said they hated my design, others had no comment about it,...

Launch Website

asked Dec 17 '11 at 14:36

Mark Hill
33 points