Questions

Joel's answer on "If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?" certainly was an interesting read. However, it was pretty much centred...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Sep 30 '11 at 01:23

Pepijn
123 points

We developed a social networking platform that connects people with other similar people by analyzing their dreams - everyone is saying its cool but its hard to convince people to signup - any...

Getting Started Web Website

asked Sep 30 '11 at 04:32

Debasish
46 points

This is a long exposition. Please bear with me, I think that I need to provide as much specifics as possible, while keeping it as short as possible. Thanks for reading, any feedback is much...

Equity Founders Partnership Compensation Partnerships

asked Sep 30 '11 at 05:22

Potential Partnership
13 points

I am a developer and I have a few ideas for web apps to build which can create revenue. I work full time and can only work on a project in my spare time. Because I am alone, I figured it would take...

Getting Started Micro Startup

asked Sep 30 '11 at 06:28

Tony Henrich
283 points

We are currently building an application which will be licensed to customers. Customers then pay $x a year to for updates, maintenance and reviews each year. Would it be practical to adjust the...

Pricing

asked Sep 30 '11 at 09:57

F21
142 points

Are there any success stories of coop startups in technology (namely software)? I don't mean like a coop store where customers are (or can be) members, but worker cooperative one where membership...

Business Model

asked Sep 30 '11 at 11:32

M Pelletier
105 points

I have worked for a small 25 employee non-profit in the US for the past 4 years. About 9 months ago, I identified some deficiencies within the company in the areas of data management and...

Legal Termination Non Profit Intellectual Property

asked Sep 30 '11 at 11:43

Jak
8 points

I recently (read: last week) started the following business: [Business Name] is a small business IT consulting firm. We specialize in the use of Open Source Software by small businesses. Open...

Marketing Niche Local

asked Sep 30 '11 at 12:49

Kevin Soviero
180 points

I was part of a joint venture that is in windup mode. The software was mostly a compilation of open source software. No patents filed or anything like that. However, the lawyer is selling assets...

Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Sep 30 '11 at 18:38

Rkm
16 points

Customer development is a nice way to build a company through iterations. However, all blog posts and articles that I have read depict software and web startups which can be developed through...

Physical Product Agile Prototype

asked Sep 30 '11 at 19:46

Martin Lee
120 points

I have read all the streams here on this topic but didn't find an answer to the following specific concern: I am one of two founders of a new web service of an idea I first developed months ago...

Founder Compensation Investors

asked Sep 30 '11 at 23:10

D Moore
174 points

Quite an ambiguous question, I know. But probably you guys have the websites with a good traffic so that you could share the average numbers with us? This rate seems to be changing with the time...

Blog

asked Oct 1 '11 at 00:57

Salfetca
3 points

let's take the exemple of a startup launched with 100.000 $ divided in 100.000 shares. Can the founder have only 50.000 shares (so 50% of the startup) and leave the 50.000 others not allocated and...

Shares

asked Oct 1 '11 at 01:37

Luc
6 points

We have a very important employee at our startup who has been consistently abusing sick days. Unfortunately being a small company we would have a very hard time replacing him at this point but his...

Management Employees

asked Oct 1 '11 at 02:18

Lloyd
53 points

What are the benefits of building a web app on Facebook opposed to an independent website? Any responses welcome, Thanks

Application Facebook Web App

asked Oct 1 '11 at 03:28

Logi Kal
37 points

I'm staring well a start-up :) Currently we are using internal funds, and by estimates it will last for a good while, but if our growth(users servers etc.) exceed our sales, sooner or later we will...

Funding Exit Strategy Seed Funding

asked Oct 1 '11 at 03:53

Ekim
141 points

I have an Adwords campaign, which consists of 2 ad groups. And there are a few keywords that exist in both ad groups. My question is, when a user types in those keywords, will this cause...

Adwords

asked Oct 1 '11 at 17:12

Graviton
871 points

I'm a newbie blogger and I'm bit confused to see the people craving for Alexa ranks.I've got nice Google PR for my blog.Despite good PR Is it really necessary to build up the site or blog to match...

Analytics SEO

asked Oct 1 '11 at 20:00

Internetearner
4 points

We have a niche business for a particular industry but with very good domain expertise and traction. We have a few hundred enterprise customers and over 10 paying enterprise customers after just a...

Funding Market Niche

asked Oct 2 '11 at 00:11

Kleine2
16 points

i want to gather a list of online shop software that is closely tied to paypal. I've seen a piece of software that provides you with a cool interface where you can add your products and then...

Software Payments Shopping Cart

asked Oct 2 '11 at 02:20

Herr K
292 points