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We are thinking to have an online channel for our videos. Which site would you recommend for this? What I have in mind right now : YouTube Vimeo Brightcove Ooyala Really appreciate if you can...

Marketing Video

asked Jun 5 '11 at 14:54

Jpartogi
1,342 points

[Disclaimer: This question was also posted on Hacker News] Howdy, Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We want to accelerate development and have talked to...

Co-Founder Hiring Equity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 09:42

Caffeinated
6 points

My firm is offering me 5% of the company. The structure they laid out for buyback of this equity seems odd to me. What are your thoughts? "The purchase price of equity shall be equal to 5X net...

Equity

asked Jun 5 '11 at 16:35

Anthony
26 points

I have read the FAQ and hope that I have added enough detail to my question that it will not be considered to vague or open. I have a great idea for a software product that I think could make a...

Ideas Planning Investment

asked Jun 6 '11 at 00:06

Sonny Ordell
197 points

Currently the software is in alpha and we're looking for some more users and are not sure where the best place is to drop an invite code or whatever other strategy will help us gather up some...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Saas Beta

asked Jun 11 '11 at 14:33

Nfriend21
31 points

I have an income and a website idea. I know nothing about programming. I have a friend who is a programmer, comp-sci major, and so to get my idea created into a website I am paying them an hourly...

Partner Employees Salary Shares

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:06

Zach
11 points

I'm looking into starting a formal business, and need a little help. I currently go to a public university and have a scholarship that is based on the fact that I, personally, don't claim more than...

LLC Tax Corporation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:57

Zakman411
174 points

For my startup (web 2 SaaS) I am looking for a good designer, probably with HTML/JavaScript skills. It seems this is pretty difficult - all good people have jobs. So I am thinking about remote...

Hiring Jobs Design

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:58

Christian
3,590 points

I recently learned of a U.S. software start-up claiming to have a team of professional developers in-house, but in-fact has all of its work done through two offshore companies (one in Eastern...

Legal Offshore Fraud

asked Jun 6 '11 at 02:51

Mqv
52 points

I am building an application in my spare time, and I want to get my plan right from the start. I think Freemium would not work for me given several constraints I have. The approach I want to use is...

Marketing Software Trial

asked Jun 6 '11 at 03:37

Andrea Raimondi
131 points

A company (pre-funding) wants to do a 3 month trial period with me. I received an offer for X shares of stock. How do I determine if I am properly compensated for my efforts? The value I would...

Equity Trial Compensation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 17:41

Daniel
157 points

I've been experimenting with certain ways to improve the number of users for my social dating website, and since the daily user count is so low, even the approach for any experiment is almost...

Launch Users User Acquisition

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:11

Herr K
292 points

As an example, let's take Yelp. Yelp has carved out a serious niche for itself in the user review market. What if you thought you could do it better? How would you make traction in that market?...

Competition Market Opportunity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:58

Richard Des Londe
206 points

We are a 3 month old, 3 part time team startup, working on a SaaS based web product. Can someone tell us how to do a pre-valuation of this startup? Well, just to add, our Alpha product is ready...

Valuation

asked Jun 6 '11 at 05:39

Essyum
6 points

How do we go about raising seed money for our startup that is at this point nothing much but an idea (working towards a prototype), team (2 technical persons with over 10 years experience in...

Venture Capital Seed Funding Prototype

asked Jun 6 '11 at 10:38

Xoail
365 points

I am starting a for-profit online donation platform. My company currently is an LLC and I have gotten conflicting reports on whether or not I need to convert to a 501(c)(3) so that the passthrough...

LLC Non Profit Platforms Donations

asked Jun 12 '11 at 11:40

Tesmar
106 points

If somebody has a website idea and make the website successfully (not on paper) and the local market is good (idea succeed) but he cannot extend the market because of management, finance and...

Marketing Finance Website Investors

asked Jun 12 '11 at 13:21

Xaqron
311 points

I'm generally interested in how economy works, because i think it closely relates to businesses. I would like to ask something about stocks. Imagine that there is a company with 100 stocks. Now,...

Investors Stock Options Economics

asked Jun 6 '11 at 17:51

Spyros P
132 points

I've been doing some development work here and there for a friend of mine who is trying to start up a web-based branding/marketing company in Canada (I am also in Canada). To my knowledge he isn't...

Tax Business

asked Jun 12 '11 at 14:37

Carson Myers
123 points

I am a full time student, studying in the UK with UK address. I would like to do a one time job for a company based in the USA. It will last about one month, and is mostly about creating a video...

UK Legal Business

asked Jun 7 '11 at 00:25

Zsero
106 points