Questions

Is there a way to pay employees' salary with a credit card? It's not because our startup is in trouble or anything. I figured this would be a great way to earn points on the card, which can then be...

Finance Credit Cards Employees Salary

asked May 22 '14 at 16:55

Thomas Evans
17 points

Assuming a startup raised a round smaller than $500K, what should the founder's salary be? The startup is located in San Francisco, so the cost of living is pretty high. Would angel investors be...

Salary Founders Investors Angel Investors Startups

asked May 22 '14 at 12:57

Sylvia Rubio
12 points

What does a full sales cycle look like when selling a SaaS solution to enterprise clients?Here is what I think is how it works: Try to find a decision maker at the company. Try to contact that...

Sales Strategy Enterprise Saas Selling

asked May 22 '14 at 18:28

Sheryl Chung
4 points

What factors are crucial to a restaurant's success? Location is clearly the biggest. What else?

Success Restaurants

asked May 9 '14 at 14:18

Kathryn Hendrick
6 points

We are a small startup of 12 people. Offering free lunches to employees is a perk that everyone enjoys, but has become an annoyance from the logistics standpoint. Everyone usually have different...

Employees Startups Perks Logistics

asked May 20 '14 at 17:13

William Pitts
14 points

During the first few weeks of launching, should you give your product away for free to get people to use it and possibly spread the word about it?Is that a good marketing tactic? It's a strategy...

Marketing Products Free Early Adopters Startups

asked May 20 '14 at 13:21

Cynthia Wilson
12 points

Lets say you are bootstrapping your startup and generating a little revenue. Should you use that revenue to first pay yourself a salary or should all of the profits be re-invested back to fuel growth?

Bootstrapped Salary Revenue Growth Startups

asked May 21 '14 at 16:42

David Thornhill
17 points

A good chunk of startups funded by top-tier VCs get "acqui-hired" rather than closed if it's clear they won't succeed.How do VCs get these "acqui-hires" done and avoid a complete loss? Is having...

Venture Capital Acquisition Acqui Hire

asked Mar 27 '14 at 19:26

Richard Albury
7 points

I have a SaaS application I have made a 6 months ago. A month ago, I decided to shut it off and upgrade it. I have shut the SaaS down so that I may do another launch as the first version was very...

Pricing Marketing Saas MVP

asked May 21 '14 at 16:50

Jo K
11 points

I run a small mobile app consulting shop and filling the pipeline has become very hard. Even though the media talks about a shortage of good app developers and a high demand, I'm having a tough...

Sales Consulting Email Clients Email Marketing

asked May 19 '14 at 20:26

Jonathan Pulley
11 points

What's the difference between GPs and LPs at VC firms? Is one better to try to approach than the other when trying to raise money from their firm?

Partner Venture Capital Money

asked May 16 '14 at 13:12

Terri Hale
2 points

Would it be a red flag for investors if we (2 co-founders) have our entire team comprised of part time interns instead of full time employees? We are looking for a sizable seed round (between $1m...

Hiring Part Time Interns Employees Investors

asked May 16 '14 at 17:11

Karen Seals
4 points

Hi, I have copyright of search function that has capability uniquely there is nothing like this before. Nearest technology that uniquely capable to decide how to focus on specific part of...

Auto Focus Searching

asked May 17 '14 at 20:31

Seremonia
-19 points

What are all the tools you are using for your startups this week? It's interesting to see what other founders are using, and a good way to discover new tools.Here are mine: Google...

Software Tools Founders Startups

asked May 12 '14 at 13:26

Jeannie Smith
12 points

We are a bootstrapped company of three. Our primary competitor is interested in acquiring us (acqui-hire). How do we place a value on our startup? Since we don't have any revenues or a huge user...

Bootstrapped Company Acquisition Valuation Acqui Hire

asked May 15 '14 at 10:40

Angela Williams
7 points

What are the some technical tools and software that you use, which if they didn't exist, would put a sizable dent in your productivity?

Software CTO Technology Tools Technical

asked May 15 '14 at 15:11

Margaret Roberson
6 points

Does numbers of users / visitors trump everything else including a monetization plan? Take funny pictures as an example, those type of sites can easily garner 100K+ visitors a month quickly. But...

Monetization Money Visitors

asked May 14 '14 at 15:40

Jeffrey Lashbrook
12 points

What are some strategies and tips to reduce customer acquisition costs? Lets assume you have found that SEO, PPC, display ads, and lead generation are the four channels that work best for you. How...

Marketing Strategy Customers Acquisition Costs

asked May 13 '14 at 14:41

Heather Thomas
19 points

The only reason I can see is that .com domains for the name you want are hard to come by. Apart from that reason, is there any other benefit to an .io domain? What are the Pros and Cons of using...

SEO Branding Naming Domain Domain Names

asked May 13 '14 at 13:40

William Cunningham
14 points

We have spent a lot of time creating variations of pitch decks for our business and closed a small angel round. Could we continue to use the decks for other purposes now that funding is over?What...

Marketing Pitch Deck Startups

asked May 13 '14 at 14:13

Leann Dement
11 points