Questions

I'm at a fairly established startup, and we need our logo and look/feel overhauled. I'm thinking about using a crowdsourced design site, along the lines of 99designs. Lots of similar sites now...

Marketing Website Branding Web Design Crowdsourcing

asked Jun 7 '11 at 03:49

Sarah
21 points

Google Adwords or any other? A website like shopzilla.com, how to do marketing ? by the way , anyone know how does shopzilla do the marketing? thanks.

Marketing Ecommerce Website Business

asked Jun 12 '11 at 18:13

Christper
6 points

I am estimating the total amount I need to spend to get things started the right way, but I can't figure out how much I should allocate for accounting and legal services. My startup will be...

Legal Costs Accounting

asked Jun 12 '11 at 19:09

Mario Caropreso
36 points

I saw a lot of web applications today that are free to use. Any idea how they earn money? Aside from ads, of course.

Business Model Web App

asked Jun 13 '11 at 00:55

B
116 points

I'm a newbie building a startup using my unique skill set to re-create the sound of professional musical ensembles without synthesizers or MIDI. In the industry, this is unprecedented and will save...

Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 07:30

Gregarious
88 points

I joined a small startup company roughly 1 year ago as the 3rd member of the company. At the time of joining, the company was roughly 6 months old; the company is contract work based and the 2...

Equity

asked Jun 13 '11 at 03:58

User192585
6 points

I've decided to ask this question here, as there is no better StackExchange site to ask and it's also not that much off-topic for OnStartups. I'm from Europe and I signed (by email) IT service...

Contract Legal

asked Jun 7 '11 at 09:12

Tomasz Zielinski
113 points

I have a startup music business where I can produce, but am not limited to, an entire 18-piece big-band ala Hoyt Curtin ("The Jetsons", "Flintstones" etc.) overnight without any recording expenses...

Legal Intellectual Property NDA Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:04

Gregarious
88 points

I'm building a startup music service that uses recordings of real musicians and creates completely new music out of it. Musicians that submit acceptable recordings that are sitting on a hard drive...

Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:12

Gregarious
88 points

My Royalty Free Music business model is designed to have zero expenses other than keeping my domain name up every year. The 'fuel' to my company is musicians' old recordings which I create new...

Funding Investors Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:40

Gregarious
88 points

I've had a conversation with some friends recently on the differences between a startup and a small business. One of my friends said that a startup in a brand new company, which aims to scale fast...

Definitions Small Business

asked Jun 7 '11 at 18:02

Slavo
316 points

I am helping a friend with some short to medium term scenarios/ projections for a business plan. I worked out some failure scenarios as in if the business folds in 6 months we will be able to...

Funding Recommendations Business Plan

asked Jun 7 '11 at 20:04

Gerhard
150 points

I am the technical founder of a software product, the product is finished with good inputs from at least 6 to be customers. My to be Sales partner who is already helping me from the past 4 weeks...

Sales Co-Founder Equity Partnerships

asked Jun 8 '11 at 00:13

User11074
39 points

If an individual is contacted by startup conference (eg TechCrunch Disrupt/DEMO/Launch) officials considering about their application to launch at the event, how should the person prepare for the...

Launch Interviews Conferences Product Launch Demo

asked Jun 8 '11 at 03:05

Geekette
6 points

I've been working with a friend's startup for about six months now. We have minimal revenue thus far, but things look to be on the brink of coming through. My role with the company has yet to be...

Equity Compensation

asked Jun 8 '11 at 06:43

Bspring18
6 points

I know you all aren't patent lawyers but maybe I am missing something obvious? How do these sites get away with breaking Elance's patent U.S. Patent 7,069,242 [guru, scriptlance, vworker,...

Patent

asked Jun 8 '11 at 08:47

James
29 points

I'm interested in how a company like Foursquare would start up. So let's pretend they are at the very beginning of their idea and they have no money; just the idea. So they write down their...

Marketing Location Social Network

asked Jun 8 '11 at 19:21

I Scotts
152 points

I am having problems getting my head around facebook pages. I'm a technical guy, and I have read the facebook docs as well as a few blogs on why to use facebook pages - however, I don't quite get...

Inbound Marketing Social Media Facebook

asked Jun 9 '11 at 00:58

Voidstar
55 points

I am a co-founder of a startup company. We sell market data and analysis reports to manufacturers. Our reports have fairly high value, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands...

Marketing Sales Organization

asked Jun 9 '11 at 01:23

Tong Wang
108 points

I have Windows desktop tools for developers. I have a few large companies that bought them. It is mostly project managers that did the buying and so far they found me via Google search(I have done...

Marketing Sales Advertising

asked Jun 9 '11 at 03:11

Textpert
21 points