Questions

I have tried (and been rejected by) a few online payroll solutions. As I am about to start (very soon) working with real employees, I need to find a way to do payroll more or less manually (though...

Getting Started Employees Employers Tax Payroll

asked Mar 30 '12 at 01:53

Michael Trausch
135 points

What is the fastest way to build a large email list of potential customers that you can pitch your product to?PS. I don't mean mass emailing people, but contacting them one by one manually and...

Marketing Sales Email Email Marketing

asked Apr 19 '14 at 14:56

Russel Corley
12 points

Would you recommend getting an MBA in order to be better positioned to run a startup? If not, what are some concepts that MBAs learn that one can study on their own time?

MBA Learning Education

asked Apr 18 '14 at 19:55

Ronald Ramos
12 points

When hiring software engineers, should you place more weight on the expertise of the specific language or framework you are using, or overall skill and experience.i.e. A great engineer with 10+...

Recruiting Hiring Engineers Software Engineers

asked Apr 18 '14 at 00:12

William Jensen
14 points

I have a small sales team that gets a commission for each new client they sign on for a B2B SaaS app.Should I cap their commissions at some point? What are some strategies on how to structure sales...

Sales Strategy Commission

asked Apr 18 '14 at 21:40

Patricia Brock
12 points

Let's say that I start a McDonald's franchise and create social media accounts for my specific location to engage with my customers.Who would own those social media accounts? I, as a the franchise...

Social Media Legal Franchise Lawyer

asked Apr 17 '14 at 17:57

Mildred Miller
7 points

It is worth trying to raise a small amount of capital (for less than 10% equity) from angel investors for a startup that is meant to be a lifestyle business?I know that VCs would be out of the...

Funding Angellist Angel Investors

asked Apr 16 '14 at 20:56

Bruce Schwartz
767 points

We've been using MailChimp for a long time to send our email newsletters. While it allows for some general segmentation of your list, we need a solution that allows us to trigger emails based on...

Tools Email Email Marketing

asked Apr 14 '14 at 18:57

Leroy Hardin
7 points

Suppose 2 founders started a company. After 4 years and full vesting one founder decides to leave. Then after 2 more years company successfully sold and both receive the same value. That looks...

Equity Vesting

asked Apr 16 '14 at 13:46

Роман Семенов
16 points

Our product is a B2B SaaS tool that has most of the users in the free plan. We do have a "Pro" plan, but not many people have converted to it yet and our marketing efforts till now have been to...

Freemium Investors Seed Funding Angel Investors

asked Apr 14 '14 at 16:43

Monica Crandall
9 points

What are some pros and cons for Saas startups to accept Bitcoin as an optional payment method?Also, is there something as easy to integrate as Stripe for accepting Bitcoins?

Payments Bitcoin

asked Apr 16 '14 at 17:59

Charles Hostetler
2 points

What are some low cost ways to improve acoustics in small office space? With concrete walls and just desks, the acoustics in our office are horrible. Everything echoes and it's hard to concentrate...

Office Office Space Startups

asked Apr 16 '14 at 13:26

Trent Thomas
14 points

What would you say are the most important financial concepts one should completely understand before starting their business?

Finance Financial Entrepreneurship

asked Apr 14 '14 at 23:25

Nichole Willhite
7 points

It's easier for other professions, like programming, where you have unlimited chances. If your code isn't right, you can correct it. With sales, that isn't the case.In sales you only get one try...

Sales Selling

asked Apr 14 '14 at 15:59

Benito Smith
7 points

It's near impossible to find a designer who has deep knowledge of what converts and what doesn't.It seems you can either find someone who can make something really good looking, but lags in...

User Experience Design Conversion UX

asked Apr 13 '14 at 00:27

Joseph Black
17 points

What are some strategies to create content that has the most chance of going viral organically? I have been writing a few long, well thought blog posts in my niche which, while are super high...

Inbound Marketing Content Marketing

asked Apr 13 '14 at 14:14

Yolanda Troutman
7 points

Why wouldn't they just open their store outside of a mall where would be less competition? Every mall has several brand name stores that directly compete with each other. Wouldn't it be harder to...

Competition

asked Apr 13 '14 at 13:41

James Wentworth
9 points

What are the tools that you love using for CRO? I'm just getting started in it. Tools could be for landing pages, split testing, newsletter popups, etc.

Tools Conversion Cro

asked Apr 10 '14 at 23:44

Thomas Ward
12 points

I have a very limited budget for marketing. How would you suggest using it to drive the most traffic to a social media app? The traffic would have to be targeted as well.It's a Saas social media...

Marketing Traffic Budget

asked Apr 12 '14 at 02:10

Wilber Villacorta
7 points

Being persuasive helps in almost every aspect of being an entrepreneur. Just a few places I can see it being tremendously helpful: Hiring Writing copy for your site Selling your product directly...

Entrepreneurship Hacks Persuasion

asked Apr 10 '14 at 16:42

Vernon Smith
12 points