Questions

I am looking for a one-stop-solution to setup a subscription-based service: [subscription page] + [payment] + [Delivery of username/password] + [access to tool based on username / password] I do...

Saas

asked Dec 8 '11 at 22:11

Tucson
714 points

I've created a series of mobile apps for the cruise community called Ship Mate that gets a significant amount of daily use. In it I've added the ability to highlight business in the different ports...

Sales

asked Dec 15 '11 at 10:48

Jan
143 points

As we are evolving our product for customers, lots of distractions come in including new ideas from existing customers, support issues etc. What tools do you use 1) to Keep track or log of...

Tools

asked Dec 9 '11 at 01:11

Sonu Bansal
68 points

I have been coding solutions since like the dawn of time, at least that's how it feels, and I love it so now I want to help found a new start up or help an existing start up that needs a technical...

Getting Started Entrepreneurs Business

asked Dec 9 '11 at 01:32

Tim
670 points

I have to write a business plan and I'm stuck on the revenue and business projection part. We're building a platform that is all about user-generated-content concerning a certain topic. It also...

Launch Business Plan Revenue Growth Users

asked Dec 15 '11 at 11:38

Beorex
6 points

I have a site that is just under 3 months old: http://www.problemio.com Lets say that I am doing a very nice amount of SEO for it considering that it is so young. But the problem is that I don't...

Marketing SEO

asked Dec 15 '11 at 11:40

Genadinik
1,821 points

The price of mobile custom built apps varies significantly from customer to customer based not only on the techical requirements of the app, but on who the client is. I consider targeting...

Iphone

asked Dec 9 '11 at 02:11

Ryan
147 points

Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a...

Co-Founder Compensation Investors Vesting

asked Dec 15 '11 at 12:57

Ina
121 points

Pretty much, you see ["Harvard", "Stanford", "MIT", "Yale", "Princeton",...] ubiquitously in the bios of startup founders. Sure, in some cases they may have dropped out, but none the less they got...

Founders

asked Dec 9 '11 at 03:28

Len
376 points

I interviewed for a NYC startup who told me their perks are free groceries from an online grocer, an office kitchen with nice appliances, and he has no problem with me bringing a sleeping bag to...

Hiring

asked Dec 9 '11 at 03:40

Len
376 points

Can word of mouth be a good customer acquisition strategy for a smartphone app?

Acquisition

asked Dec 15 '11 at 13:09

Ina
121 points

I am in the process of setting up an accounting "system" (well set of procedures etc). For most businesses, the books of original entry include: Sales Day Book Sales Return Day Book As I...

Ecommerce Payments Accounting Bookkeeping

asked Dec 9 '11 at 04:23

Morpheous
23 points

I am working on my project full-time w/o income for a while, now it's getting to the end and I need someone with marketing experience to on board and help out, and a technical guy for final...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Dec 9 '11 at 06:47

Tom
197 points

How do entrepreneurs make sure they read only few important books which matters every month and disregard the others due to information overload ?

Getting Started Resources Books Entrepreneurs

asked Dec 15 '11 at 17:05

Drew X
77 points

If an owner has 50% of the company, and the remaining 50% is spoken for by friends and family, is it possible for the owner to "voluntarily" give some of his equity back to the company (at no...

Equity

asked Dec 9 '11 at 08:16

User14924
21 points

My startup received a Terms Sheet from an investor and my co-founder and I are trying to figure out if they are saying that they are going to want 30% of our profits at the end of every year or if...

Legal Angel Investment Term Sheet

asked Dec 9 '11 at 10:04

Tom Delaney
16 points

I have a budget of $10,000 with a generous $5000 emergany bank to build an information/data site which i want to have ecommerce/video streaming/large forum area/gallery and how to areas etc. the...

Cost Estimation

asked Dec 9 '11 at 16:54

Smee
9 points

I've been operating under the assumption that I want to set the commission rate for my commission only sales reps based on: (# of sales) * (average deal value) * (r) = compensation or r = c/(N*V)....

Sales Compensation

asked Dec 9 '11 at 18:21

Umassthrower
458 points

I am a software developer and I have been working with a few others in a startup for just over a year. However there has been a lot of conflicts lately and I can no longer work with them. I have...

Legal Shares

asked Dec 16 '11 at 03:43

James Gu
103 points

So, I started working on a project, and I have a shortage of good team members. The project is kind of secret and I would not like to share details about the project. I could advertise on the web...

Getting Started Team

asked Dec 16 '11 at 04:44

C0da
111 points