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I recently launched a website for developers (blackbeltcoder.com ). It's a free site that will employ an advertising business model. I'm very pleased with the rate of growth in the just over three...

Venture Capital Investors Corporate Sponsorship Sponsorship

asked Mar 24 '11 at 11:56

Jonathan Wood
120 points

So, this is likely more of an "information architecture" sort of a question... but I admit, in the last 20years of internet revolution, I've been on the frontier of pretty much every new wave......

Blog Website SEO

asked Mar 28 '11 at 12:48

Igorek
886 points

My partner and I are starting an LLC in california. We are in different financial situations, I have enough of a nest-egg to not take a salary, he does not and needs an income asap. We have also...

LLC Partner Salary

asked Mar 28 '11 at 13:28

Dbh21
6 points

I would like to know if you guys have any tips on where someone can see for example, how's the wine market doing or the toys market doing world wide or US only. I have been looking around but I...

Reports Market Research

asked Mar 24 '11 at 19:03

Diogo Da Silva
36 points

I want to do training in computer security: it's been my life for 30 years after all. But I want to keep my day job as a college professor as well. My university (like most universities) allows me...

Marketing Time Management

asked Mar 28 '11 at 15:11

Fixee
155 points

So the startup culture and ecosystem is also emerging in NYC...how would you compare the ecosystem between NYC and Silicon Valley, what the pros and cons of each is and what can one offer that the...

Company Geography Silicon Valley

asked Mar 28 '11 at 15:22

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

My start up business will be a social service that also hooks to a mobile application. I want my users to be able to interact with my service over their phones or on their PCs. Naturally I'm...

Community Web Services Mobile

asked Mar 28 '11 at 18:35

Long Winter
271 points

Seems like there are dozens (or hundreds) of travel meta-search engines like fly.com, Kayak, TravelPost, etc. I can't imagine any of the "big" sites like Expedia, Travelocity, etc allowing their...

Travel Search Engines

asked Mar 24 '11 at 23:14

Cbmeeks
135 points

There is a lot of focus on the cost of employee turnover in companies. I am curious to know whether there are any studies on failure-rate of high-tech companies increasing if the turnover rate is...

Strategy Management Human Resources

asked Mar 28 '11 at 22:22

David
1,567 points

So we are getting a team together at the moment and starting the R&D of a new project. We want to set up an agreement that lays out our share of the revenue of the product if it was to ever...

Profit Sharing

asked Mar 25 '11 at 01:00

Slandau
203 points

Forget about whether this means we're in a bubble or all the talk about whether this was smart or not, but a new application company (social photo sharing) raised $41MM. They spent $500k on the...

Silicon Valley Valuation

asked Mar 25 '11 at 01:32

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

Have you found the SBA to be of any value in launching your start up? We used the SCORE program and got some reasonably helpful advice but other than that, haven't seen much value. Here's the...

Government SBA

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:03

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice? The idea behind it is to get away from the...

Motivation Project Management Team Project

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:21

Tim S
111 points

Is it possible to hide your contacts from only certain people? Such as direct competitors that you are linked to? For instance, maybe you have you are friendly competitors but you don't want to...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Linkedin

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:09

Scott
468 points

Basically, why should one incorporate in the US? I'm interested in three cases: 1 - Most of the revenue and employees are in the US. 2 - Most of the employees are in the US, but the revenues...

Incorporation Legal Tax Localization

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:41

J Delage
277 points

I was just reading a thread which I cannot find again, and it brought up a question. People were advising this guy not to develop his idea 100% perfectly, but to start small, and make it free,...

Strategy Growth

asked Mar 25 '11 at 04:37

Aslyesnow
214 points

I've set up two LLC's and an S-corp myself before for companies that I own and run; but this new idea I have is bigger and I will be pursuing investor involvement for it. I'm trying to keep my...

Funding Corporate Structure Corporate

asked Mar 25 '11 at 06:35

Nick
1,171 points

I have an excel spreadsheet I'm using to manage my projects. I have my assumptions about my product that drive base, then I try to apply a "Growth rate". Here... to make it easier to understand I...

Forecasting

asked Mar 29 '11 at 06:29

Nick
1,171 points

We are interested in using digital signature in our extremely paper intensive world. However, we need the signatures to be valid digital signatures. Are there open source solutions available that...

Software Technology Legal

asked Mar 25 '11 at 07:03

Scott
468 points

I am in need of delivering a proposal for a software project I may work on. Some of the areas they would like me to highlight is "implementation timeline, cost, overall system functionality, and...

Proposal

asked Mar 29 '11 at 07:57

Benny
121 points