Questions

We're currently building a small e-commerce product that involves recurrenct billing (think of domain registration). As the 'tech guy' I don't want to set up a full blown ticketing system at this...

Customer Support Infrastructure Email Customer Service

asked May 9 '10 at 00:37

Roland
33 points

We started our business back in July 2009 with the intentions of building websites, consulting, internet marketing, etc. Now we have changed our focus to developing a SaaS solution for a...

Development Equity Angel

asked May 9 '10 at 01:09

Csumme
146 points

Several months ago, my girlfriend wanted to make a custom photo calendar(that's something that you can put your photos with some edition on a calendar). And we search for some tools for this kind...

Web Business Model

asked May 9 '10 at 22:14

Byang
130 points

So here's the deal..I have a developed product and for the next few months all I need is someone to support me with a presales call if necessary and or keep my demo and infrastructure going until I...

Hiring

asked Apr 22 '10 at 05:58

Stacey
484 points

Our software product is sold to be intalled on the client side We are targeting large companies who can truly benefit from it and see the ROI. The challenge is the long sales cycles and being a...

Sales

asked Apr 22 '10 at 06:03

Stacey
484 points

What savvy thing can a start up company do to drive incoming leads from the web when they don't really have a marketing resource and its depedent on the founder to bring it in?

Marketing

asked Apr 22 '10 at 06:05

Stacey
484 points

I have an idea for a startup and for it: I've created mockups of the site and work flow diagrams. I've registered the domain name and incorporated the company. Actively looking for the...

Development

asked Apr 22 '10 at 06:56

Syed
445 points

Sometimes when the going gets tough, team members gets discouraged. Though we embrace failure here and eat it like lunch, some people are not confident enough in themselves to take failure...

Motivation Partner

asked Apr 22 '10 at 13:54

G Rex
683 points

I am not sure what the going rate is for angel money in the software space is it 100k for 10% equity?

Equity Finance Angel

asked May 1 '10 at 00:12

Stacey
484 points

I am looking for recommendations on creating Twitter background image for a young software company. The goal is to have a Twitter profile page that projects an image attractive to IT / software...

Twitter

asked Apr 23 '10 at 00:32

Vadim Kleyzit
18 points

I feel my question is silly, mainly because I am unaware of the English legal terms. I am in the process of (legally) forming a small company for videogame development. I have created a game which...

Legal NDA

asked May 1 '10 at 02:08

Bill
128 points

Can one pay for expenses that a start up requires before forming your LLC or Corp? Is it then possible to count them as expenses when you start one?

Getting Started Incorporation Payments Expenses

asked Apr 9 '10 at 18:06

Vnchopra
418 points

Since Authorize.net is US/Canada only, I am wondering if there is a Austrlian counterpart to them providing service similar to them? What are must have, Recurring payments One time...

Payments

asked Mar 30 '10 at 20:44

Shabda
159 points

I am negotiating a deal and I really need some advice on the pros and cons of the deal that has been suggested to me. I have a startup company with radically innovative technology. I want to...

Co-Founder Contract Partner Partnerships

asked Mar 30 '10 at 23:25

David
1,567 points

I released an iPhone running app two weeks ago. When I discovered a bug that only cropped up in the App Store version, I immediately pulled it from sale. Sold maybe 3 copies before I spotted the...

Product Management Iphone

asked Apr 9 '10 at 21:00

Mike Schoeffler
100 points

I am writing a Business Plan and I am currently using website resources for help; but I believe that a good book can help me more. So what (good) books do you advice me for helping me writing my...

Books Business Plan

asked Mar 31 '10 at 01:44

Fabien7474
210 points

I'm looking to do a internet based startup with a friend. It is heavily focused on the site development and although I haven't really made proper cost calculations yet, I'm guessing the initial...

Funding Development Entrepreneurs

asked Apr 15 '10 at 10:16

Danny
6 points

Anyone have experience with ANY of the below payment gateways (some do merchant services as well) that you can comment on: Payjunction Authorize.net Braintree Looking at these three gateways....

Finance Payments

asked Mar 31 '10 at 03:40

Scott Blanc
90 points

In getting started we all take shortcuts. I'm thinking about when we: hire employees without having employee manuals or making them agree that they are at-will employees enter into an agreement...

Legal

asked Apr 15 '10 at 12:34

Dane
1,866 points

If I were to start a business listing, and I want business owners to be able to signup for the service and edit/update their listing, what's the best way to validate that a person that calls is...

Business

asked Apr 10 '10 at 00:48

Brian Wigginton
166 points