Questions

We are a startup but not incorporated yet. We have someone who is interested in working part-time for equity. Is it ok to give him offer letter and offer some stocks which vests over 4 years? Does...

Getting Started Equity

asked Oct 29 '11 at 05:04

Gagan
150 points

Rotary, Masons, Elks, BNI, LinkedIn Groups, Meetup Groups, Company of Friends, Cooltea, EYPN, NetParty, PowerMingle, Jaycees, First Tuesdays, Knowmentum . . .. I don't have time to become and...

Networking

asked Oct 29 '11 at 08:39

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I am thinking of becoming a sole trader. I know as a sole trader I am liable for any debt the company has. Can I place money from my personal account into the business account to start it off? I...

UK Tax Loan

asked Oct 29 '11 at 09:38

Jack
11 points

My question may be really simple, yet I can not find the answer. What is your opinion about the most appropriate top-level domain for a personal resume that the address will be printed in a...

Domain

asked Oct 29 '11 at 09:48

Nikolai
125 points

I've spent the last 10 months building a product to help salons manage their businesses. Throughout the development process I've been spending time with salon owners, salon managers and stylists to...

Customers Business

asked Oct 29 '11 at 11:07

Jason Swett
555 points

I own a small business IT consulting firm, and on the web site we have our ToS listed. In our ToS is the following line: [Business Name], or anyone working at the request of [Business Name], may...

TOS Liability

asked Oct 29 '11 at 15:44

Kevin Soviero
180 points

I want to have my brand strategy in place when I finally launch my startup. I'm not sure what the best strategy is for a multiple product brand. I see some brands like 37signals have a different...

Getting Started Strategy Branding

asked Oct 29 '11 at 19:49

I Scotts
152 points

My friends and I have been brainstorming lot of ideas in the past month or so. We spent two days to discuss one idea, searched it on web, checked different options, made a rough design and then we...

Getting Started Advertising

asked Oct 30 '11 at 02:37

Mutant
133 points

I have a Facebook fan page for my startup and I'm looking to increase the numbers of fans. What are some techniques for acquiring real, legitimate fans?

Web Design

asked Oct 30 '11 at 10:36

Sima Akter
31 points

My partner and I are considering applying to an accelerator program in NYC. The application asks for two pitch videos, one about the business and one about the team. Just wondering what these...

Pitch Seed Funding

asked Oct 30 '11 at 23:27

D Moore
174 points

How do you decide whether a user is a serious buyer and ready to make a purchase, besides prepayment? What are common ways to filter out users that are not serious buyers? Should I keep an eye out...

Selling Business Group Buying

asked Oct 30 '11 at 23:32

Web2jeet
96 points

I have a startup that has developed a few software products. I'm finally having a decent amount of success in getting people to use the products, but I am tired of putting money into this and would...

Competition

asked Oct 31 '11 at 03:36

User6492
1,747 points

I would like to start a software consulting company to hire software engineers who can be contracted for larger firms. How to start the company, what type of compnay (thinking of LLC - is that...

Software Consulting

asked Oct 31 '11 at 08:27

Zedi
11 points

We started freelancing. However, most of our projects have failed because we had to do what we are not experienced with. For example, say our expertise is ASP, but we can't wait for ASP projects to...

Getting Started Products Failure

asked Oct 31 '11 at 13:17

D Shan
68 points

As part of being transparent, we're thinking of putting our contract up online in our services section. The idea is that people would be able to have a look, question us in advance, and overall be...

Contract Website

asked Oct 31 '11 at 15:19

Mirov
384 points

Being tired of doing stuff that turned out to be far from what users actually need, I think now it's time to ask potential users first (think lean startup mantra) before doing anything. The idea...

Getting Started Pitch Customer Feedback

asked Oct 31 '11 at 17:52

Anton Gogolev
136 points

I recently launched a small MVP. It's a web app which is supposed to make file uploading easier, without the need to register, use complicated UIs or have porn popups be thrown at you ( ;)...

Lean Web App MVP

asked Oct 31 '11 at 19:50

Itai Sagi
337 points

It dawns on you: if we get any more than a few customers we might not survive! You are already working crazy hours and don't have the staff (nor the ability to quickly pull in new staff) to handle...

Success Stress

asked Oct 31 '11 at 21:06

Paul Filmer
790 points

Would it be wise to bring our Angel to the VC-pitch? The Angel would make a good impression. He is definetely better at pitching than everyone in the team. But what impression would it make, if...

Venture Capital Pitch Angel

asked Oct 31 '11 at 21:45

Tim
16 points

if there is a batch software released under the GPL, can I create a services that calls that batch and uses it's output?I do not go into the source code of the program, I just call the batch file

GPL

asked Oct 31 '11 at 22:48

Ryan
147 points