Questions

I was shocked to see that www.spypig.com patents are not found in patent search and my friend patented that procedure as his idea and submitted and received the patent rights. Now can he send a...

Patent

asked Sep 23 '11 at 19:07

Gimp
427 points

I have started a small startup online business. I need to drive traffic to the site and create new users - a classic "inbound marketing" problem. I have seen that people have asked similar...

Getting Started Inbound Marketing Traffic Micro Startup Registration

asked Sep 23 '11 at 19:33

Slightly Dillusioned Startup Guy
48 points

Well I am trying to raise capital for upcoming IPO's.I would appreciate for the answer of these questions. 1.What are the requirements for raising capital by Private placement memorandum...

Business Plan Investment Investors Stocks Fundraising

asked Sep 23 '11 at 21:29

Himanshu Prasad
51 points

I have received an RFP from a small company to build an Android app. They have asked for a time/cost estimation together with a time chart for the given product specification (which is 25 pages +...

Software Project Management Proposal

asked Sep 23 '11 at 22:46

Brown And Friendly
43 points

What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to...

Marketing Launch Website Beta Branding

asked Sep 24 '11 at 04:27

Dan Mac Bean
151 points

Okay, this is not a typical question, but applies in a specific case. Starting out as a freelancer, most of us spend a lot of time in picking up necessary skills and building out a set of happy...

Hiring Company

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:45

Roopesh Shenoy
141 points

Many successfull former startups are currently well-established companies in BigData space. That means that their key technical competence is in handling the large volumes of data. Question is:...

Technology Scale Bigdata

asked Sep 24 '11 at 06:51

Tom Burger
108 points

After reading and reading about taxes, I think I've grasped which taxes I should pay and when to pay them. Still, it'd be really great if someone could confirm I have it right. I will appreciate...

LLC Tax California

asked Sep 24 '11 at 06:55

Claudia
52 points

How do I declare my income if all of it comes from paypal ? Most accountants in Portugal (where I live and where this company will be based) don't know how it works... Do I declare it only when I...

Ecommerce Legal Tax Income

asked Sep 24 '11 at 09:04

João Pinto Jerónimo
118 points

Top level domains are going to cost a lot to register so for instance www.drink.coke could be around $100,000+. However, once .coke has been registered, would it be cheaper to then register let's...

Domain

asked Sep 24 '11 at 13:50

Nextgenneo
327 points

I am just wondering why most standard web 2.0 websites have the main call to action button on the homepage send the visitor to the pricing page? This is assuming a pretty typical navigation...

Website Conversion

asked Sep 24 '11 at 14:45

Joel Friedlaender
5,007 points

I was offered a position of software engineer at a company of 3 people, but it's technically just one (more on that later). I was offered just about market value for an entry software engineer in...

Equity

asked Sep 24 '11 at 15:31

Butch
16 points

I would like to know how price comparison websites make money. Do use pay per click or other revenue models? Please be as detailed as possible and cite your sources. Thank you!

Pricing Sales Ecommerce

asked Sep 24 '11 at 15:40

Joao
6 points

Specifically for web/software, how do you know whether it is better to invest time developing the product alone or in a small team versus shelling out hard earned money to get it developed quickly...

Getting Started Development

asked Sep 24 '11 at 17:19

Hagope
106 points

I often read the suggestion to validate a business idea doing a marketing campaign (Adwords, Facebook...) and leading to a "sales" page for a product that doesn't exist yet and check if there...

Marketing Validation Landing Page

asked Sep 24 '11 at 22:36

Danmaz74
381 points

I'd like to sell a software program (that my startup developed) through third-party online sellers. Any tips about how to approach the other sellers and structure the transaction? Is the best way...

Sales Software Ecommerce

asked Sep 25 '11 at 00:29

User6492
1,747 points

Are there any good and short agreements document for founders? (not investors) Focusing on: Responsibility, e.g. hours of work (some of them may not be fulltime) Vesting period Any hints?

Co-Founder Founder Equity Founders Agreement Termination

asked Sep 25 '11 at 03:28

Howard
126 points

I registered my domain name in Feb 2011. I have been using my domain name as my business name. I just checked trademarks, and there is a company that registered the name in March of 2011. It's not...

Legal

asked Sep 25 '11 at 09:27

Jdh
182 points

So i have an idea for a website. In the development of the business plan, i would need to know what percent of people are going to use this website, how much money am i going to make and how am i...

Website Business Plan

asked Sep 25 '11 at 18:56

Kraken
133 points

We have an ERP product that is targeted at schools, colleges, small & large institutes. We are looking to sell this product online with SaaS model. The product is ready and we are now...

Marketing Saas Partnerships Online

asked Sep 25 '11 at 21:45

Dartz Educational Erp
3 points