Questions

I have sold a website of mine on Flippa for high five figures. Would that work in my favor when trying to raise money for a startup idea? Or is that too small to even matter and not worth mentioning?

Founders Seed Funding Seed Flippa

asked Mar 5 '14 at 06:06

Carla Blair
30 points

I work at a small startup (~30 people) and the woman that is responsible for recruiting apparently told my salary to someone while having lunch (I don't know to who).Now my department knows that I...

Legal Salary Human Resources

asked Mar 3 '14 at 20:06

Esther Rooker
80 points

I'm almost done writing my first digital product, an ebook about how best to hire engineers for startups.What would you say are the top 3 ways to go about selling this ebook?

Ebook Selling Digital Product

asked Mar 5 '14 at 00:17

Edward Deal
30 points

I along with 3 other people created a concept for an innovative Ecommerce platform as part of a 5 week startup pre-incubator. We had a great run and on demo day we won the audience and panel of...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Intellectual Property

asked Aug 20 '11 at 04:10

Adjoa Opoku
106 points

I was offered a job at a very small startup. They have just started a year ago. 4 founders started the company together. I'm going to be their first hire. They offered a "pay the rent" salary and...

Equity Job Offer

asked Mar 5 '14 at 05:51

Mo
6 points

The standard monetization procedure for free products these days seems to be to place ads everywhere. These ads often reduce the quality of the product for consumers. I'm looking for a more...

Monetization

asked Mar 5 '14 at 04:11

Daniel Que
21 points

They're backed by Sequoia so definitely must have a monetization plan. Sequoia wouldn't drop money on them without looking for a return on their investment. Everything seems to be free on their...

Monetization

asked Feb 21 '14 at 07:39

William Boyd
1 point

What are some strategies to use mobile to get more people to visit your store?

Mobile Small Business Local

asked Mar 4 '14 at 14:04

Charles Wright
40 points

My co-founder and I have been working on a bunch of different apps for Android that just aren't going anywhere.While we both hold full time jobs and do this on the side, how do I break it to him...

Co-Founder Apps Failure

asked Mar 3 '14 at 22:36

Susan Wagner
60 points

I'm a developer, who has been working solo on a startup for close to 12 months. The tech side is coming along well, but I'm acutely lacking in my business accumen, and sales skills. Here's some...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Mar 20 '13 at 11:53

Marty Pitt
171 points

I sold a popular site on Flippa and the new owner has completely screwed the site up by splattering it with ads everywhere.I used to be proud of saying I founded that site and now I'm ashamed to...

Acquisition

asked Mar 4 '14 at 12:05

Oscar Bennett
35 points

What are some link building tricks / hacks you've used that a beginner in SEO would not know?

SEO Link Building

asked Mar 4 '14 at 00:35

Charles Brown
20 points

We're an enterprise services company and while there are no rules, everyone just automatically prefers to be dressed "old school".This has created a problem for us to attract designers in the bay...

Culture Hiring Design

asked Mar 2 '14 at 17:32

Michael Nall
30 points

Does using hashtags in your Facebook posts generate extra exposure? Does Facebook make use of the hashtag data in their search?Hashtags are more apparent in Twitter but their use on Facebook is...

Marketing Facebook

asked Mar 3 '14 at 12:38

Eli Medley
130 points

First off - congrats for saving the old site - and apologies for kicking off with a niggly question.However, all of the user-generated content on the old SE site was CC licensed. I see you've noted...

Bright Journey

asked Mar 3 '14 at 19:11

Adrian Howard
2,357 points

What are some good practices and strategies for on-boarding users on a SaaS app?Most of my users signup for the free version to try out the app. How can I tailer the on-boarding process to result...

Strategy Saas Conversion Onboarding

asked Mar 3 '14 at 05:12

Willie Kline
20 points

I am about to graduate and thinking about either getting a job at a startup (my first) or just finding an idea to bootstrap.Would you say that working a few years for startups is good pre-cursor or...

Jobs Startups Experience

asked Feb 27 '14 at 11:27

Michael Stewart
95 points

I'm trying to figure out how to monetize my open source contributions on GitHub.Does anyone have any experience with selling branded shwag to people who use your repo?What other ways can I make...

Monetization Revenue Open Source

asked Mar 2 '14 at 13:35

Brian Daniels
45 points

There is a small percentage of users on my site that signup for the free trial using disposable email addressed like Mailinator, etc. How can I prevent them from doing so? Are there any negative...

Email Email Marketing

asked Mar 2 '14 at 20:35

Larry Gatto
50 points

I looking to build a niche CNET type of site. My niche is reviewing fitness products like FitBit. How can I get companies to provide me a review unit? I would return it back after testing it out...

Review Startups Fitness

asked Mar 2 '14 at 02:22

Brenda Carpenter
45 points