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I am developing my website to the membership area part which will enormously help me and my clients communicate through web-based channel, then I come to the dilemma whether should I hand-code...

Project Management

asked Dec 13 '11 at 01:10

Modular
39 points

If there's a Founder's Agreement in place with a vesting schedule, how does one actually go about firing a co-founder such that he loses his unvested equity? For a three person startup (split...

Legal

asked Dec 13 '11 at 05:35

Helo
11 points

So this is the first desktop application I have ever written. Over the weekend, I set up Adwords, and started getting some clicks. What is my next step here? Should I continue to work on the...

Product Launch

asked Dec 13 '11 at 07:37

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

I am developing a website where users will be able to transfer money to their account on the website. They'll eventually be spending some money and withdrawing money back into their accounts...

Research Website Accounting Method Merchant Account

asked Dec 13 '11 at 14:28

Jon F
144 points

On one hand, people leave bogus emails just to get the download link. You don't get any means of contacting them afterwards or build your email list. On the other hand, if people see that sending...

Marketing Business

asked Dec 13 '11 at 15:49

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

We are planning to create a facebook fan page/application which has the potential of driving in a daily traffic of 100,000.However,we are not clear about the revenue generating model.Is there any...

Monetization Advertising Facebook

asked Dec 13 '11 at 16:26

User14997
6 points

I have a minimum viable product web application which I have been tinkering with over the past 6 months. A friend of mine who is keen on startups and attends meet-ups and other events suggested I...

Customers Advertising

asked Dec 13 '11 at 18:31

Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

I'm considering registering a business that I am bootstrapping. At this point I am concerned about keeping costs down. The cheapest option in my state is to register a Sole Proprietorship. The next...

Startup Costs Saas Business Liability

asked Dec 14 '11 at 02:42

Mike Nereson
411 points

For 15 years or so, I worked at various graphic design firms as a production artist. Two years ago I left "Design Firm" in "Big City* and started working freelance from home in "Rural Area" about...

Marketing Advertising

asked Dec 14 '11 at 04:13

Bgad
28 points

Is there an existing system that startups or websites uses to send their newsletters out to users that are signed up to their site? I don't really want to go build a subsystem just for that so I'm...

Email Newsletter

asked Dec 14 '11 at 04:30

Shawn Mclean
220 points

Ok, I think I'm going to give up my company name (see here: Trademark infringement - does it really sounds that bad? ) Given my situation I need to make sure: Nobody will go after me again (it...

Business Naming Trademark Domain

asked Dec 14 '11 at 07:05

Katit
276 points

My company provides a set of API for accessing telecommunication services (kind of like Twilio). The target customers are web developers. They could be indie developers, or companies. What are...

Marketing API

asked Dec 14 '11 at 14:00

Samwize
106 points

I know there have been related posts to this question which I've already read, but can someone please help me specifically with this? We found some high profile techies/developers in a neighboring...

Strategy Equity

asked Dec 14 '11 at 18:23

Newbie
1 point

I have an innovative project developed. Now I have to contact companies. All my friends are refusing to take me inside to his working company. To contact a company for suggesting my project...

Contact Meet Up

asked Dec 14 '11 at 20:28

Gimp
427 points

This is similar to another question on here, but my concern is slightly different. I've been developing a web app for the past 2 years and registered the domain name for it about a year ago. Other...

Domain

asked Dec 14 '11 at 21:43

Shaun Budhram
106 points

Is the uppercase implementation of Android the only thing that is trademark, like it is with Google or both, because android is in reference to a robot? If they did trademark both does that...

Trademark Android

asked Dec 15 '11 at 04:22

Daryl
16 points

Our website is currently run on a Hyper-V server and we use SQL Server 2008 R2 Express. One annoying limitation of 2008-r2 is it has a 1gb RAM limit. We are enrolled on Bizspark from Microsoft...

Microsoft Bizspark

asked Dec 15 '11 at 05:34

Tom
480 points

I have a sort of "specific" dilemma. I am a founder of start-up (business networking platform) which target market is East Asia and Japan being one of the most important markets. Our beta is ready...

Co-Founder Technical Web Dev

asked Dec 8 '11 at 17:31

Peter K.
194 points

We would like to understand the kind of tools which are used by other startup(s) for maintaining their projects. Project hosting (SVN or Git) - We have finalized on using Git. Email collaboration...

Project Management Lean Hosting Project

asked Dec 8 '11 at 17:33

Priya
111 points

I started a local coupon shopper for small businesses, but I am having a hard time selling ad space. My costs are much lower than any of my competitors, however I'm stuck on how to attract local...

Marketing Advertising

asked Dec 15 '11 at 07:18

Bernard
6 points