Questions

I'm constructing an online start-up and I'm not completely sure of the best possible online advertisement pricing model. Should I use the Cost Per Thousand Impressions model, the Cost Per Click...

Advertising

asked Oct 17 '11 at 10:48

Matt
20 points

I've just applied to Y Combinator and was wondering what kind of questions I might be asked and where/how I should research to know the answers.

Pitch Investors

asked Oct 17 '11 at 11:11

Dan
11 points

I've been developing an online trading algorithm as a hobby project for 3 months during the summer. It seems that two more people will join to me, due to external circumstances not entirely up to...

Trust Secret Sauce Profit Sharing Income

asked Oct 23 '11 at 21:30

Siamii
195 points

I was reading this article about Groupon in the CS Monitor. Which starts from the assumption that the significantly decreased proposed valuation of Groupon in their IPO to $12+/- million from $25...

Growth

asked Oct 24 '11 at 04:31

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I current own my own business and make quite a bit of profit. Well I am looking into other things and found some friends that have a good idea that I am interested in. These friends only have the...

Co-Founder Investing Investors

asked Oct 24 '11 at 04:46

Cappy
26 points

The contract is for 2 years and im only 2 months into it and it also has a non compete clause/Exclusivity clause ... so i really want to get out of this fast its a bad bad deal.. D. Exclusivity....

Contract Legal Website Photography

asked Oct 18 '11 at 00:06

Kiki
16 points

If you hire somebody to develop a product for you, and they take the credit and the idea and make a success out of it, is it possible to have them sign a document stating that if they steal the...

Legal Legal Documents

asked Oct 24 '11 at 06:09

Michael Grigsby
111 points

I'm author of the "Agile Toolkit " Framework. Currently it's available under dual license Affero GPL - any use, personal or commercial Permissive license for $130/domain Permissive license for...

Software Open Source Licensing Web Dev

asked Oct 24 '11 at 06:15

Romaninsh
253 points

I want to register a small work from home business and do yearly audits. I have found a tax consultant and we exchanged more than dozen emails. After I asked him about where he got his...

Consulting Tax Accounting Small Business

asked Oct 24 '11 at 06:37

Sparkubullet
21 points

I started developing a product in 2001. It was a one off web site for a particular client in which I retained all rights / ownership of the software. By early 2009, the code base had been extended...

Sales Equity

asked Oct 18 '11 at 06:21

Chris Lively
443 points

I am looking to develop a software product as a side project, and I want to target a specific niche to lower the customer acquisition costs. I couldn't find relevant results on Google -does anyone...

Market Niche

asked Oct 18 '11 at 11:02

Bruno Ligutti
126 points

I'm somewhat of in a pinch and I'd appreciate your insight on how to solve things for the best. We've been operating like a company for about 1 year, and I say "like" because we haven't really got...

Partner Equity Partnerships

asked Oct 18 '11 at 12:00

Anonymous
6 points

We looking for interns to work with us (yumety) ( machine learning, supervised algorithm ) - anyone knows how to contact interns?

Getting Started Bootstrapped

asked Oct 24 '11 at 10:12

Debasish
46 points

I'm an individual from Singapore currently offering free access to a web application and I'd like to accept donations to support it. Are there any eligibility criteria to accept PayPal donations?

Payments

asked Oct 18 '11 at 12:32

Moe Sweet
141 points

What is the name for a company that contracts with other companies to mass produce products? And how hard and what is the process to get a contract of such for a small startup?

Contract Business

asked Oct 24 '11 at 11:58

Michael Grigsby
111 points

I'm struggling to find a payment solution for my UK based startup. I don't intend to sell internationally for a considerable amount of time. I do have a turnover and can probably satisfy merchant...

Payments UK Website

asked Oct 18 '11 at 18:47

Neil
125 points

I have an idea I'd like to implement. I've done a bit of work to get together a proof of concept and it works pretty well. I think the potential is great, so much so that I've become a bit obsessed...

Equity Vesting

asked Oct 18 '11 at 20:27

Mark Silberbauer
8 points

My Business is to have an to sell products online (online store). My business name has just been approved and I have also purchased the company desired domain. I am in the process of taking my...

Software Ecommerce Website

asked Oct 18 '11 at 20:40

Kobi Cob
16 points

This question is a follow up to another question but it stands as a question by itself so i decided to ask it separately.. i am a single-founder starting a company and hence looking for...

Equity Employees Founders Titles

asked Oct 18 '11 at 23:09

Achshar
125 points

I plan to start business like DropBox. It's not exactly like DropBox but something similar. DropBox is charging monthly fees for their subscription but my service is total free of cost. It's cloud...

Startup Costs Monetization Cloud

asked Oct 18 '11 at 23:54

Umair Ashraf
135 points