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1 Votes
2 Answers
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New Project Management startup business

What's the best way to market startup project management/facilities consulting company for homeowners, churches and businesses?

asked May 17 '11 at 23:49
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Mc Cants
16 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
6.95K Views
Can I exercise stock options in a privately-held startup?

My options (ISO's) in a privately-held (VC-funded) startup are slowly but surely vesting. Can I exercise the vested options? What does it mean to exercise options in a privately-held company? If...

asked May 18 '11 at 00:59
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Matt Solnit
123 points

6 Votes
2 Answers
2.19K Views
What makes customers jump ship?

There is Company X online that provides a service for its visitors - and though they currently have the monopoly and have for the past 10 years, the quality of their service is not so great and...

asked May 18 '11 at 01:59
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Sam
509 points

4 Votes
4 Answers
2.68K Views
Which business model is better for the new web startup?

I would like to ask you for your opinion on pros and cons of 2 different business models for a social networking+user advertising start up. For a very vague description and comparison, imagine...

Web
asked May 18 '11 at 02:23
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New Web Start Up
21 points

0 Votes
4 Answers
2.51K Views
Best time of year to launch?

Is there a better time during the year to launch? Business is in the Food and drink / Restaurant industry, and will be an online service free for customers.

asked May 18 '11 at 03:25
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Sam
509 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
3.96K Views
Hiring an employee in the USA

We're an Israeli Company that wants to expand to the USA, we have already close the commercial details with a very experienced executive in the USA, now we have to decide how we can hire him, we...

asked May 12 '11 at 23:01
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David
16 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
2.51K Views
Structuing Equity Sale in Early Tech Startup

I have a few Angel investors, and a meeting next week with serveral VCs (brought to the table by the primary Angel), and I am trying to put together the equity sale package to present to everyone...

asked May 12 '11 at 23:48
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Entrepreneur
11 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.03K Views
Can or should a small IT start-up delegate sys admin activities to a 3rd party?

Following discussions triggered on another question: let's imagine a small start-up company who has to decide what to do with its capital. Two suggestions are made: a) The company spends capital...

asked May 12 '11 at 23:52
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J Verstry
152 points

0 Votes
3 Answers
2.47K Views
Not paying 50% on £1,000,000

Hypothetically speaking, if someone earns £1,000,000 "profit" in 1 year who is British via his own company, is it possible to NOT pay 50% tax on that legally? Is it possible to reduce that 50% to a...

Tax
asked May 12 '11 at 23:54
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Oshirowanen
201 points

5 Votes
6 Answers
3.19K Views
FREE, ultra-simple online project management tools

I am looking to set up a project management tool to keep track of bugs, and project tasks. Is there any such thing out there which is completely free? Thanks!

asked May 8 '11 at 10:25
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Genadinik
1,821 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.35K Views
Getting a Survey from a tough demographic

Background: My business is surveying individuals about their particular career, repackaging this information and publishing it. I have used many tools to acquire these surveys including MTURK and I...

asked May 8 '11 at 13:32
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Tyler
8 points

0 Votes
1 Answers
1.94K Views
What is product/IP startup?

Can some one help me understand about what is "Product/IP" Start up. What is that required for company to become a IP Startup? I mean officially or recordically what all we need to do to get to...

asked May 8 '11 at 15:51
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Fayaz
35 points

0 Votes
2 Answers
3.28K Views
equity distribution and office space as investment

While crawling the questions being asked here, I saw that the question of the office space seems to be very important for many founders. As an investor (in the most global sense), I think that...

asked May 3 '11 at 13:39
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Sylvain Peyronnet
371 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
3.31K Views
Should I search for a web developer/code business partner?

I am in the process of building a B2C online to offline based web service. The service itself is built through contracts that are established offline which are sold to consumers online. I have the...

asked May 8 '11 at 19:33
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Jack
16 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.93K Views
In evaluating a co-founder offer, how do you value the benefits of failure?

I'm a tech guy looking to join a company as a co-founder. Quite often companies are in various stages. For example for 2 different business offers, pre-seed/pre-series A: Lets say founder A,...

asked May 3 '11 at 18:01
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Daniel
157 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
4.04K Views
How should I price our SaaS for resellers?

Our product is a platform for organizing health related games. Our customers are corporate wellness coordinators, and the games are played in the context of their company. One of our strategies is...

asked May 8 '11 at 22:08
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Ryan B
86 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.63K Views
Security-as-a-Service API business model

We're a small startup company in the web security space. In a nutshell, we have developed a unique approach to scan and detect web threats. After much consideration, we have decided to welcome the...

asked May 3 '11 at 22:32
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Marek.B
9 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
1.95K Views
How big is the cake of handmade crafts market?

Like the etsy. I noticed that it has been profitable for years. many users sell handmade carfts on it. I'm living in China now and I want to build a ecommerce website to sell some chinese handmade...

asked May 3 '11 at 23:38
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Robinshe
116 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.74K Views
Is there any good IT startup company in Australia?

Am considering startup company as about to graduate.

asked May 9 '11 at 03:32
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Ziliangdotme
9 points

0 Votes
2 Answers
3.02K Views
Burned out. Should we sell our SaaS business or find second round investment?

Hey my name is Chris and my wife and I started a web application in Brazil over 3 years ago. As most of the individuals in this community understand the difficulties of starting a business(These...

asked May 4 '11 at 03:55
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Chris
3 points