Questions

If I have a consulting business, does it make sense to start another business (new legal entity) if I want to develop and sell a product? What if I have business selling B2B but want to start...

Business

asked Jan 12 '11 at 02:20

Sumrak
168 points

Aside from Adwords, Link Building, blogging, what are some other ways to attract and retain a loyal user base??

Adwords Advertising Website Business Keywords

asked Jan 12 '11 at 06:55

Donald
136 points

I applied for a sole proprietorship business in San Francisco. I had to spend money registering for the business($25 for County Clerk's Office) and the fictitious business name($44 County Clerk's...

Solo Entrepreneur Legal San Francisco

asked Jan 12 '11 at 07:56

A.N.N.
1 point

I'm about to release my web app, and want a basic document that says "hey, when you pay us you're getting access to the app for a year. We reserve the right to change the app in ways that we think...

Terms And Conditions Legal Documents

asked Jan 12 '11 at 08:30

Riley
193 points

I am a professional developer with a couple of hobby websites. I have been paying hosting costs out of my pocket over the last couple of years and don't really mind as the users have been grateful....

Finance Legal Bank Account

asked Jan 12 '11 at 09:14

Blu
113 points

I am a newbie to Wordpress and have set up a hosted blog with wordpress but the default theme is not what i am looking for. I am looking for a theme that is SEO optimised and then also have the...

Blog Wordpress Templates

asked Jan 6 '11 at 04:05

Beginning Steps
50 points

I'm working on a business-to-business web app. About a year ago we gave our users the ability to charge credit cards (from customers calling them over the phone) directly within our software...

Software Credit Cards Security

asked Jan 6 '11 at 04:16

Alex Cook
641 points

We've launched our group buying app (no, we're not a Groupon clone) for online retailers about 3 weeks ago. Traffic has been okay, and we have a fair number of sign-ups for the trial. We've only...

Social Media

asked Jan 12 '11 at 17:14

Alvin Tan
30 points

My start-up is finally coming together; however, I am in dire need of a solid sales team to go out into the market and attract customers. I want to pay them per store they sign-up. Can anyone refer...

Sales Employees

asked Jan 12 '11 at 18:20

User6528
149 points

StackExchange would be a great alternative to such services as GetSatisfaction. I noticed that fogbugz is using StackExchange as a tool for driving community questions and answers. Is it possible...

Customer Support Support

asked Jan 6 '11 at 10:55

Radek
148 points

I am considering inventing a new specialized programming language, which should increase the human/computer communication speed considerably. I, therefore, have two questions: Is it possible to...

Ideas Patent

asked Jan 12 '11 at 20:39

David
1,567 points

I had a software developer create a software program, which I copyrighted and then assigned to a software company (and LLC) that I co-founded. I plan to sell the program to the general...

Software Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Jan 12 '11 at 22:15

User6492
1,747 points

I want to start multiple businesses. For these businesses I would like to have a separate checking account, telephone number, mailing address. What do you suggest to make this as simple as...

Email Domain Bank Account

asked Jan 6 '11 at 14:32

Steve
56 points

A customer has found a serious security flaw in my software, over a year after their support period has ended. Should I provide a free update? The upgrade price is substantial, so I don't want to...

Pricing Security

asked Jan 12 '11 at 23:32

Steve Hanov
596 points

The following is a copy and paste from this discussion with Pierre 303: Let us take an example where I believe that it is clear that there are no reasons for budget. Imagine a company, which has...

Strategy Management Budget Large Companies Strategic Management

asked Jan 6 '11 at 19:30

David
1,567 points

Are there any sites that dissects a company's annual report as well as discuss its strategy, SWOT etc? If there is such a site, it will be a good opportunity for us to enhance our understanding of...

Market Analysis

asked Jan 13 '11 at 01:10

Ravisankar S
3 points

We ask for customer feedback about our software on uninstallation via a web form. In our experience, we only rarely get anything valuable our of this. It is even worse. Particularly, emails from...

Email

asked Jan 6 '11 at 21:46

Droplet
56 points

Lately, I've been considering different ideas for new sites, but the first and biggest question is how to make money with a site. When I can't think of an obvious way to make money with a site, I...

Web Advertising

asked Jan 13 '11 at 01:52

Mark Rogers
149 points

I know that Dropbox sits on top of S3. I want to provide a service that offers the first 2 gigs of storage free. How are services like Dropbox and Evernote able to pay their data storage bills...

Cost

asked Jan 13 '11 at 03:40

John Wright
123 points

I've landed a few interviews for our startup that is about to go live at the end of the month. Would really love some tips on how to talk to the media folks (editors of the news technical sites)...

PR Interviews News Release

asked Jan 13 '11 at 03:42

Igorek
886 points