Questions

I'm an independent software consultant who is looking for referrals. I've come to the conclusion that perhaps I should pay for them and earlier today posted this question about a teired commision...

Sales Consulting Leads Referrals

asked Apr 22 '11 at 13:46

Timid Developer
30 points

More specifically, has any of you managed to convince both financial support, and getting additional technical talent to support the expansion of a startup concept/prototype? If so, where and how...

Recruiting Venture Capital Angel Technical

asked Apr 18 '11 at 08:50

Stanigator
133 points

I am a US company (S-corporation) and I need to start processing payments through the UK for Europeans. What is the easiest way to set up a subsidiary or part of the company over in the UK? All...

UK Subsidiary

asked Apr 18 '11 at 09:26

Nextgenneo
327 points

I am looking to reach out to my prospective clients (mostly restaurants) in India, more fore evaluating the idea itself and getting answers to some questions. The clients are not very technology...

Market

asked Apr 18 '11 at 10:30

Sarthak Dudhara
56 points

I'm joining a software startup as a (co-founding) CTO. I am also bringing my industry contacts into the venture, and will be the only person taking initiative on business development. My contacts...

Sales Compensation

asked Apr 22 '11 at 16:24

Aaron Smothers
56 points

What is the difference between Series A, Series B and Series C investment for a startup? How does this affect salary and/or equity expectations if I am looking to join a startup in a...

Funding Equity Investment Compensation

asked Apr 23 '11 at 00:23

Nissan Dookeran
177 points

So you understand our scope : We are a custom software development company who have 2 primary markets Mid sized companies who have ongoing internal needs for...

Sales Software Recommendations B2B Consulting

asked Apr 18 '11 at 15:46

Robin Vessey
8,394 points

I always hear Jason Calacanis say that if there is a chance to take an extra round of funding, the founders should do this. Is that really true? Does it increase valuation somehow? For example, if...

Funding Investors Valuation

asked Apr 18 '11 at 16:04

Genadinik
1,821 points

What is share dilution? How can I, as a past employee of a company where I exercised my share options, know if my shares are subject to dilution? How can I protect myself in future from share...

Funding Equity Investors Shares

asked Apr 23 '11 at 01:24

Nissan Dookeran
177 points

In essence my question is: is a CTO supposed to provide the company vision and business strategy? I am bringing into a startup the following: vision, business strrategy, technology...

Strategy

asked Apr 23 '11 at 03:35

Aaron Smothers
56 points

My site accepts credit cards through PayPal, but some customers still send me credit card information in their e-mails or purchase orders. PayPal does not allow me to use this information to charge...

Credit Cards

asked Apr 23 '11 at 05:08

Philippe
297 points

We're bootstrapping our latest business idea. Everything I've done has been boostrapped. This will be a complete stop and change direction (so could be a total distraction for a month while we...

Planning Venture Capital Market Opportunity Market Research

asked Apr 18 '11 at 23:26

Matt
2,552 points

I was reading this article on traction and it had an interesting comment in it: If you wait until you're "ready" to fund you're too late. Funding is about developing a relationship over time....

Networking Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding

asked Apr 23 '11 at 05:52

Nick
1,171 points

I have developed my product completely, and have built a business for the product to be able to take to market. The product is unlike anything else on the market as of now and in my opinion would...

Ideas Contract Pitch Data Protection

asked Apr 23 '11 at 06:07

User9915
16 points

I came across DotCloud this weekend. It looks like an awesome way to build a web based startup with pre-configured modules. Here's how they position themselves: "Assemble your stack from...

IT Cloud Applications

asked Apr 19 '11 at 03:29

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

What is a good resource for grants available to business in Canada? Startups are preferable due to the nature of this site, but any would do. Outside of waiting until their announced in the paper,...

Funding Canada Grants

asked Apr 19 '11 at 06:10

Canadiancreed
136 points

I am planning to build an outsourced web research/data entry team via Odesk. In my opinion the job will be pretty boring - it will require researching certain types of websites, copying...

Outsourcing

asked Apr 23 '11 at 07:15

Trish
186 points

There is a lot of advice on how to hire great developers, which I don't think is quite relevant as far as startups are concerned. The reason why I am saying this is because we--as a startup in...

Hiring

asked Apr 19 '11 at 11:23

Graviton
871 points

My startup just was selected as a semifinalist in a local state-run business plan competition. I'm very excited about this, the first prize is pretty decent and would really provide some help with...

Pitch

asked Apr 19 '11 at 11:43

Nick
1,171 points

We're forming a 2 person LLC and part of what we're trying to figure out is how much to leave in the LLC to build up some capital reserves. Since an LLC is a pass through tax entity if the LLC...

LLC Legal Tax Accounting

asked Apr 23 '11 at 10:57

Todd H
196 points