Questions

Do any of the following six scenarios give rise to Conflict of Interest, for me and my company and/or for the other person and his company: I appoint a well-connected professional on my company's...

Legal Conflict Of Interest

asked Mar 13 '11 at 12:41

Aaron Smothers
56 points

S-Corp. I am currently the only shareholder. Doing taxes for my first year. How do I properly account for money I've put into the business both in my accounting system, and for tax purposes? Is it...

Tax Investment Accounting

asked Mar 8 '11 at 13:09

Jefflunt
113 points

I've developed a low volume high priced product, which I currently sell in the EU market. A UK based company would like to sell my product in countries including the US. I don't want to start...

Legal Distribution

asked Mar 13 '11 at 18:21

Steven F
66 points

I am a lawyer in a mid-sized law firm and have founded a very small start-up to just sell one legal software program online. I had the idea for the program, worked with a great software developer...

Employees Side Projects

asked Mar 8 '11 at 13:32

User6492
1,747 points

From this question on Merchant Account Chargeback Ratios, one answer suggested that websites selling high value items will have higher charge backs because more criminals will attempt to purchase...

Payments Credit Cards Shopping Cart Fraud

asked Mar 8 '11 at 20:27

Nikolay Piryankov
683 points

How can a startup actually gain momentum when it actually requires some users already using it to succeed? For example, consider a startup where one party will put in what he/she wants to learn and...

Marketing Social Network

asked Mar 9 '11 at 00:01

Ashfame
128 points

When you're a young and relatively inexperienced founder, should age be a factor in choosing a co-founder (or in deciding if you need a co-founder at all)? Does having someone on board who's...

Co-Founder

asked Mar 14 '11 at 04:44

Aks
36 points

How can a compay selling high-value products protect themselves against post-delivery fraud (including but not limited to returns fraud)? Can we insure ourselves against fraud or somehow pass on...

Ecommerce Insurance Fraud

asked Mar 9 '11 at 03:01

Nikolay Piryankov
683 points

How did the Million Dollar Homepage became a hit?

Success

asked Mar 9 '11 at 07:51

Ashfame
128 points

I am starting a company and am considering agile development, but I don't understand how a Fixed Price contract (the type I would like to use), could work. It seems like the point of Agile is to...

Pricing Contract Agile

asked Mar 14 '11 at 10:36

Skaz
254 points

I am in the process of writing up my business plan for my startup. When describing your market, do you use statistics? If so, how do you cite those statistics?

Business Plan Business

asked Mar 9 '11 at 08:50

Li Zhou
323 points

The context of this question is a small web design company that wants to branch out to do mobile application development. I am wondering two things: What average hourly fee do you charge a client...

Pricing Development Mobile

asked Mar 9 '11 at 10:17

Jbranchaud
168 points

I have been a fulltime student recently working on graduate work to complete a graduate degree. While continuing my studies I have maintained my computer hobby. However, recently my computer hobby...

Consulting Terms And Conditions

asked Mar 9 '11 at 10:41

John
106 points

I already got my first round, piece of cake. We had a million dollars sitting in the bank. But now we've burned through it, and we need to raise again. I'm worried that the pressure from having a...

Funding Seed Funding

asked Mar 9 '11 at 15:54

Balaji Chandrasekaran
18 points

I've been running a software startup for the last year - basically the business model is that I customize the software products released under GPL for my end customers. These customizations are...

Legal GPL

asked Mar 9 '11 at 16:51

Ajay
13 points

I'm about to join a new startup as their CTO and we need to choose our server software stack. The client side is a mobile application (Android, iPhone, etc.) so the server side exposes an API and...

Venture Capital Microsoft

asked Mar 9 '11 at 19:44

Asaf R
133 points

abcTech.com is already taken and I'm thinking about registering abcTek.com. Sites like de.lic.io.us (I don't even know where to put the dots) still succeeded despite their horrible names (or maybe...

Recommendations Website Naming Domain Name

asked Mar 10 '11 at 00:44

Foxatlarge
11 points

I am about to send an invoice/purchase order for a company to lease our software for a year. Both companies are in NY - must I charge sales tax and if so, how much? A pointer to the appropriate...

Tax Software Licensing

asked Mar 10 '11 at 01:45

Tim J
8,346 points

Henry Blodget wrote this inchoate rant in which he claims that his startup had to pay $10,000 in extra tax in New York for having too much unused capital in the bank. What's he talking about? How...

Tax New York

asked Mar 10 '11 at 07:23

Joel Spolsky
13,482 points

Almost every client thinks that design is something subjective, and they often get involved in UI and UX design decisions too much. Most of the time, the situation turns like this comic. I...

Web Services

asked Mar 3 '11 at 11:48

Alexchenco
134 points