Questions

Me and my partner are about to start a new startup. I'm much more financially prepared than he is so we've agreed on the following structure. I would fund the company with half a million for the...

Getting Started Funding Equity Stock Options

asked Nov 30 '11 at 10:49

Erotsppa
139 points

Are merchant accounts necessary? Can some other bank services be used when charging clients while still being professional? I'm thinking of using wire transfers or maybe PayPal. Can PayPal or...

Payments

asked Nov 30 '11 at 12:07

Sergio Alvarez
46 points

I am a developer of an iPad application that can be used to expedite the transfer of information from patients to physicians. We are marketing to a wide variety of multispecialty adolescent...

Pricing Marketing Business Plan

asked Nov 30 '11 at 12:35

Parseltongue
120 points

My company takes payments via credit card and Paypal, but occasionally we have international customers who do not have a credit card (or debit card with Visa or Mastercard logo) and do not have a...

Payments

asked Nov 30 '11 at 17:53

Bkparikh
610 points

I have heard (and believe) that starting a new company takes huge amounts of time and effort. Having never done it myself I don't know where this time and effort is normally expended. Say for a...

Time Management Cost Estimation

asked Nov 23 '11 at 09:53

Tom Squires
1,047 points

This might be slightly off-topic, and not all that important, please excuse me. But I'm wondering, when you're writing software to be used worldwide, and your main focus is not America, but more...

Copywriting

asked Nov 30 '11 at 22:07

Hss
157 points

I'm developing a website that allows businesses to register. Any ideas how to automate the validation process of the business? For example, to identify an individual you could use a credit card...

Business Services Validation

asked Nov 23 '11 at 13:11

Paul Riker
6 points

I'm a software developer and some time ago, I've shared an idea to a friend. I've said, look, I think that this app will boost your services and someday I'll do it for you. That friend was very...

Pricing Software Ideas

asked Nov 23 '11 at 21:35

Dole Doug
141 points

I am panning to release an audio book listening application to one of the new mobile platforms. It has a special features that makes the experience of listening books very pleasant and effective....

Books Monetization Audio Mobile Apps

asked Nov 23 '11 at 22:57

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

I'm an IT student from India. I want to start a new IT company in India with the name for example "Simplesoft Incorporation". I want to know, what is the difference between using incorporation and...

India Incorporation

asked Nov 23 '11 at 22:59

Amanjot Singh
1 point

The main point is that I am a programmer and I am willing to work hard at least 20 hours per week to build a web service application that can be valuable to other people. I don't have an idea about...

Getting Started Development

asked Dec 1 '11 at 05:56

Baraban
9 points

I'm working as a technical advisor to a start-up company. The company licenses its product (a web and mobile application) to large groups of people who then use it for a relatively short period of...

Legal Privacy Security

asked Nov 23 '11 at 23:40

Yuck
257 points

I have software product and I found myself doing lot's of demos which is not needed. I also don't want to create text manuals. So, my idea is to create video training and demonstration...

Video Presentation

asked Dec 1 '11 at 07:09

Katit
276 points

One of my marketing strategies for my b2b product is to contact businesses through the contact form on their website. Basically, I go through a list of websites, and if they have a contact form I...

Outsourcing

asked Dec 1 '11 at 08:49

Michael
1 point

My Company is looking to get angel investing for a startup in order to provide more resources/time to various aspects of our business. How long does it take to sway an angel to invest? I know this...

Startup Costs Investing Investment Investors

asked Dec 1 '11 at 09:58

Meow
137 points

I have an idea to develop an application: "Plain old" Windows application GUI based It does some "tricks" with clipboard and saves a history (It is a bit different than the ones one can easily...

Marketing Project Survey

asked Nov 24 '11 at 02:33

Paolo
123 points

We have a project we've been working on as a side project (Web based education and training application) for a few months as more of a hobby than anything. Recently we were approached by someone...

Pitch Company Investors

asked Dec 1 '11 at 18:11

Cubed Eye
150 points

We are 3 partners and friends based in Milan, Italy, who started a crowdsourcing site which allows academics to work on short-term assignments. We launched in March of this year, and managed to...

Partner Technical Partnerships

asked Dec 1 '11 at 19:06

User1073693
11 points

I've created a series of mobile games that could be effectively re-branded with products of large corporations. I'm an independent developer and already have a generic one being sold and can use it...

Partnerships NDA Mobile Apps

asked Nov 24 '11 at 07:39

Old Mc Stopher
135 points

what would the process be for aggregating data from hundreds of websites into a master database? I would then do calculations on the master data base, then resell. Thank you.

Data

asked Nov 24 '11 at 08:42

Tony Brattle
1 point