Questions

I started my own business about 7-8 months ago. Everything looks great and we are growing very nicely. I like web apps to keep my business organized (teamworkpm for project management, freshbooks...

Sales Application Forecast Apps

asked Jan 21 '11 at 16:57

Julio
19 points

I'm an English-Chinese interpreter and receive prospective clients' email inquiry about my services from time to time. However, I found quite a few clients become unresponsive after I reply to...

Marketing Sales Inbound Marketing International Purchasing

asked Jan 21 '11 at 18:18

Steven
1 point

I plan on using Paypal for a monthly subscription service and would like to know how to handle the Upgrade/Downgrade/Cancellation from users: For cancellation, is it recommended to develop the...

Payments Subscriptions

asked Jan 15 '11 at 10:17

User3462
345 points

I am writing today to understand and read what your take is in starting a consulting company. Currently I hold a day job, which I am happy with, but I want to become more flexible in terms of...

Consulting Independent Contractor

asked Jan 15 '11 at 16:33

Geo
268 points

In light of facebook's acquisition of fb.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for $8.5 Million (http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/facebook-paid-8-5-million-to-acquire-fb-com/), do you think...

Domain Name

asked Jan 15 '11 at 20:09

Henry The Hengineer
4,316 points

We've reached a point where we need either hard capital or strategic hire capital and as an LLC it seems like it is much harder to grant capital (either immediately or in a vesting process). Also,...

LLC Incorporation Tax

asked Jan 16 '11 at 01:43

Sean
1,149 points

We're a small (but growing) consulting firm with software to be developed as a side stream (yes, I know this is an original story :)). 3 partners, equal equity. We've worked with a few people in...

Hiring Equity Employees Salary

asked Jan 16 '11 at 02:09

Sean
1,149 points

We're tired of the Regus game (we have a virtual office, which allows us to pay for conference room use when we're meeting with clients or just meeting in general). The majority of us work at...

Office Office Space

asked Jan 16 '11 at 02:29

Sean
1,149 points

I'm looking for the equivalent of consumer reports for hosting companies. But I would be happy with any neutral data comparing one site to another. Does anyone have any links to data the speed of...

Web Website Hosting

asked Jan 16 '11 at 03:24

Mark Rogers
149 points

I am considering creating a solution, which would save large companies time. I am certain that they would save this time, so I am willing to sell my solution for a price that is proportional to...

Pricing Business Model

asked Jan 23 '11 at 08:11

David
1,567 points

I incorporated with a friend turned business partner, probably giving him too much of the company for the amount of work he was putting in simply because he was a friend. Since incorporation, he...

Incorporation Partner Legal

asked Jan 16 '11 at 07:37

Good Greif
236 points

In my job hunt, it's incredibly common for me to run into startups that have say 3 people and then have the CTO tell me "We just closed a round of funding, so we're looking to hire 3 or 4 more...

Hiring Venture Capital Employees

asked Jan 23 '11 at 18:57

Jason
139 points

I've heard some horror stories about this. Is it really that hard to sign up for the iOS developer program and have the seller's name be your business name if you have a DBA? I've heard many say it...

Iphone DBA

asked Jan 24 '11 at 06:19

Matt S.
131 points

Was wondering if anyone knew of any site(s) out there that specialize in QAing sites for start-ups? Essentially doing quality assurance to test and find defects.

Testing

asked Jan 24 '11 at 06:28

John
161 points

I created the blog Austin Tech Geeks in August of last year. It's been somewhat successful as I have been able to get a decent number of subscribers and uniques every month. The blog is about tech...

Ideas Blog Naming Domain

asked Jan 17 '11 at 04:26

Ricardo
4,815 points

For the last couple months, I have been building small HTPCs with a variety of software on them, tailored to what my customers (so far just my friends) want. There is a market there, but I'm...

Legal Intellectual Property Open Source Support

asked Jan 17 '11 at 10:41

Matt
108 points

We all know that it's really important for an impatient SaaS user to not make them spend too much time filling forms. Having said that there maybe some important fields that needs to be gathered...

Saas User Interface Registration

asked Jan 17 '11 at 13:13

User3462
345 points

I have recently been approached by a person, who is both an investor and the project idea originator. We are talking about a tech start up, where I am the software developer, project manager, and...

Corporate Structure Partnerships

asked Jan 17 '11 at 14:11

Lyman Zerga
278 points

I am the CEO of a small software services based company(7 devs including me). We have been working for a customer for almost an year now. We created a job portal for these guys from the ground...

Scams

asked Jan 24 '11 at 20:29

Fire A Scammer
69 points

Recently my account was limited by paypal while I was traveling. when I called them, they told me that I was limited because I tried to access my account from abroad and that I needed to email them...

Payments Travel

asked Jan 24 '11 at 21:28

Brown And Friendly
43 points