Questions

Nearly one year ago I released a free .NET profiler. I started coding it to solve a unique problem; a problem none of the available profilers could help me with. It was a fun experience and a much...

Marketing

asked Mar 5 '11 at 07:06

Soren Christensen
113 points

I am master student in computer science. I will graduate in May. It's been exhausting for me trying to get a software engineer job. I think it will be easier to just start with an internship. Is...

Interns

asked Mar 11 '11 at 16:08

Luke412
11 points

I'm thinking of starting a business. It would be a website that would act much like a social-bookmarking site. It would be funded by selling data about websites and this data would be collected...

Legal Data

asked Mar 11 '11 at 18:13

Dan Waterworth
118 points

I prefer to do work on my own sites, but I occasionally take one-off small business website jobs where I work with a designer, who owns the client relationship. Most of these sites are content...

Contract Independent Contractor Vendors

asked Mar 5 '11 at 09:00

Pat James
138 points

This is my first question on here, so please excuse me if I haven't got used to any cultural norms this stack site has. I have an idea, a great idea. An idea that I truly believe, with maybe a...

Ideas Investors Partnerships

asked Mar 11 '11 at 21:17

Mild Fuzz
121 points

I've recently been approached by a potential partner to buy a piece of custom software that I have written, and I'm struggling with a way to value the software. They would like to buy the source...

Software Valuation Licensing Royalties

asked Mar 5 '11 at 10:11

Matthew Dorian
292 points

My company provides fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product. We have not bothered until now much with ToS before but with increase of fee-based clients...

Marketing Sales Legal Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 14:57

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

My company sells fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product. How would one call an entity subscribed for a free service and distinguishably name another that...

Software Web Definitions Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 15:20

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

Why is Dropbox so much more successful than many other sites that offer/offered essentially the same service?

Pricing Business Model Competition User Interface Service

asked Mar 11 '11 at 23:05

Zippy
871 points

I see in this board the two tags: ToS (which I understood as "The Terms of Service") terms-and-conditions The same I see for on-line services. Some companies, providing on-line services, have...

Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 15:50

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

I am running a small business of 10++ people, and am looking to expand the head count to 20++ this year. The business is profitable now, so I am thinking about how to create a profit sharing plan...

Profit Sharing

asked Mar 5 '11 at 20:11

Graviton
871 points

My twitter account is followed by hundreds of proposing me to return following, to get software for and learn techniques for getting thousands of followers. But why? I personally read most of...

Marketing Advertising Branding Twitter Twitter Apps

asked Mar 12 '11 at 05:05

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

What's the best book you've ever read on pricing?

Pricing Marketing Sales Business Business Services

asked Mar 6 '11 at 00:58

Steven
1 point

I wanted to know if it was needed to have Board Members and Advisers for your start-up to be successful. I know there are advantages to having this committee in terms of how they can advise you,...

Board Advisors

asked Mar 12 '11 at 06:09

John
161 points

I think a lot of companies might focus too much on getting new customers instead of showing their appreciation for their existing customers. I don't want to be that kind of company. I want my...

Customers Customer Retention

asked Mar 12 '11 at 06:09

Jason Swett
555 points

I run a web service. I receive payments / donations through paypal and I'm considering mobile payments. http://www.boku.com/ and paymo do this. I would like to see if it's beneficial for me to...

Payments Mobile

asked Mar 12 '11 at 08:22

Mikhail
118 points

I tried Mturk but not enough willing participants in english speaking countries. And what are some questions I can ask to validate market?

Market Research

asked Mar 6 '11 at 08:39

Matt
141 points

I am building a database of products (and services) and need to put similar items in the same category. That's got to be a common need, and I don't want to recreate the wheel. For example, a...

Products Ecommerce Advertising

asked Mar 6 '11 at 08:57

C. Scott
85 points

I recently registered a NY LLC with LegalZoom. The LLC is complete but I have to do a few things in order to have the LLC in good standing like sending back a few tax-related forms and completing...

Legal

asked Mar 6 '11 at 09:11

Matt
141 points

Our technical startup - overlooking public finance - must have non-profit badge to claim neutrality and attract community. What is the financial and business aspect? Can we have other sources of...

Non Profit Donations

asked Mar 6 '11 at 09:55

Daniel.Sedlacek
108 points