Questions

We started our small corporation 2 years ago with 3 partners - lets, call them Adam, Ben and Carl for argument's sake. Adam and Ben do all the work. Carl turns out to be a louse who is always angry...

Legal Purchase Agreement

asked Apr 22 '11 at 08:51

Moni Cosman
26 points

I've been running an in-office and online educational business for 3 years. The original partners are offering me a small equity share, but there is no contract yet (nor has there ever been one). I...

Founders Conflict Of Interest

asked Apr 14 '11 at 06:37

Anthony O
51 points

Does anyone knows about a company/service/way that allows to send payments to credit/debit cards? I want my website be able sending to worldwide affiliates their commissions that way.

Payments Credit Cards

asked Apr 14 '11 at 07:56

Quantme
113 points

Looks like the DE Franchise Tax Board & SecState changed the minimum authorized shares tax - a lot of companies that incorporated this past year may have been unaware of this change or not sure...

Incorporation Tax Delaware

asked Apr 14 '11 at 08:44

Henry The Hengineer
4,316 points

I always hear that a good idea is to solve people's pain. Here I have one: Pain: When I really want to talk to some one. His/her phone is always busy/no answer/please leave message ... etc. So I...

Ideas Website Internet Mobile

asked Apr 14 '11 at 10:02

Ethan
11 points

In the midst of a start-up as leaders we are pulled in so many directions. We find ourselves putting out fires, keeping fires from starting, and even intentionally starting some fires! The...

Personal

asked Apr 14 '11 at 11:42

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I have been involved in a particular industry for some time, opening my company in 1983 and selling app 25 years later. I enjoy the industry and have a good grasp of how to build a successful...

Compensation

asked Apr 14 '11 at 13:07

User9381
16 points

For a software business, how long did it take to get: Your first $1 in revenue? Your first $100 in revenue? Your first $10,000 in revenue? Your first $100,000 in revenue? Intent Hopefully we can...

Business Revenue

asked Apr 14 '11 at 14:16

Clinton
101 points

I currently run a Canadian Corporation, but I'm finding taxes (both accounting fees and bookkeeping) a real pain and expense. I would like to keep the corporation and basically find out how to...

Tax Canada Accounting Sole Proprietorship Corporation

asked Apr 14 '11 at 14:37

Geek Gal
16 points

So here's the issue, I need to accept credit cards on my site, but I don't want to go through a merchant service, I want to go through visa/ amex/etc directly (it's a long story..). Now, to even...

Credit Cards Legal

asked Apr 9 '11 at 08:04

Aslyesnow
214 points

I'm an independent developer who has been working for the past year or so on product X. I don't have a company created that is associated with the product, as we have yet to officially launch (no...

Tax Acquisition

asked Apr 9 '11 at 10:49

Themeerkat
6 points

There is this scenario. I registered dropbox.com (hereafter DB) and were using it. And DB offered me a referral program that I'll get 250mb for every free register from my referrer. So I gave DB...

Legal Email Spam

asked Apr 14 '11 at 22:52

Moe Sweet
141 points

We are a software company with an international partner in EU. They want to be exclusive as a distributor what should be the most important points we need in our agreement? Our product is not in a...

Legal Legal Documents

asked Apr 14 '11 at 22:54

Stacey
484 points

There are millions of forums out there where users are required to register in order to post. How do these sites grow from nothing?

Growth Forum

asked Apr 14 '11 at 23:33

Raklos
138 points

Say you had a tech product that could be applicable to a various verticals like Healthcare, Financial, Education, Insurance, Manufacturing, etc... and you decided to ramp up your sales. Would you...

Sales

asked Apr 9 '11 at 20:53

Chain
313 points

I recently formed an LLC for my software side business. The income generated is between 5-10k a year. I have also filed and receivied a Federal EIN. I think I intend to take money out or "pay...

LLC Tax

asked Apr 14 '11 at 23:36

Robby Pond
133 points

this is really good advice about ownership shares in a startup company. But the advice is also very general. E.g. in the startup phase developers are extremely important - without them - there is...

Development Shares

asked Apr 14 '11 at 23:41

Andreas
118 points

This question got me thinking about quality and the expectations of quality for your Minimum Viable Product (MVP). This may seem like a basic question but I wanted to understand the expectations...

Product Management Market Analysis User Experience MVP

asked Apr 9 '11 at 23:06

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

Does anyone have an excel spreadsheet of their startup costs? I want to make sure I have not left anything off or forgotten about anything. Some background info: I have a website and iphone app,...

Startup Costs

asked Apr 10 '11 at 03:23

Pmillio
57 points

Lots of people give lots of advice to startup leaders. What's the one single best piece of advice you'd give to a leader of a start up? Business plan is written, LLC is formed, initial funding...

Business Plan

asked Apr 10 '11 at 10:02

Wsmm
136 points