Questions

The ten years I've worked since graduating college have been for companies with more than 40,000 employees. I am being interviewed by a startup. The job seems to suit me and I am ready for the...

Hiring Interviews

asked Jan 21 '10 at 07:07

Dean Brundage
256 points

We are looking to do some usability testing on our site. Any experiences with either usertesting.com specifically or other similar services? You pay them to have users test your site, record their...

Website Product Management User Interface

asked Jan 21 '10 at 07:20

Chris
4,214 points

This is follow-up to my previous question. Inspired by the answers, we did a quick customer survey. We asked the standard question "would you recommend our service to a friend?" and "what is the...

Pricing Subscriptions

asked Feb 1 '10 at 02:23

Tambet
215 points

I'm looking to ask someone to be on the board of Directors for my startup. The compensation can be money, stock, or a percentage. Update: I'm looking for someone to guide me on the business side...

Board

asked Jan 26 '10 at 10:05

Hoang
21 points

I was looking through some posts today about Startups and business Plans and i came across this: "1. Even VCs don't require a full business plan on your initial meeting. And a business plan for...

Business Plan Project Planning

asked Jan 21 '10 at 10:41

Eric Amzalag
818 points

I live in Colombia and have a web service, I would like to create a company in the US so I can receive payments from there. Is there a way to create a company without traveling there like this...

Getting Started Incorporation Saas Selling

asked Jan 26 '10 at 14:32

Carl
16 points

I mean, isn't "Apple" a bit generic ? Could that kind of word still be trademarked in 2010 or would the request be rejected ?

Legal Trademark

asked Jan 21 '10 at 11:00

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

Obviously determining Market Size is a vital step in starting a business. With ecommerce or the sale of a product it seems to be a much more concrete process. On that note, does anyone have any...

Market Analysis Market Opportunity Market Research

asked Jan 26 '10 at 15:59

Eric Amzalag
818 points

I'm in the midst of figuring out what designer to use to help with my website design, as it's currently just "programmer art". From people that have started websites/web applications before, based...

Outsourcing

asked Feb 1 '10 at 14:36

Daemin
323 points

Could someone share your experiences if you have created a rich internet application (Adobe AIR ) version of the web application? Or, created a hybrid or lighter version of the web application as a...

Strategy Products Platforms

asked Jan 21 '10 at 15:42

Aka Ak
165 points

I have a desire to build a software package in a niche area that already has some established competing products. I believe my Feature Set and ease of use could propel me well in the market. Most...

Funding Software Research

asked Feb 1 '10 at 16:15

Aaron
124 points

If all you have right now is an idea how do you value a company? See I want to build a software package and I have been doing research on my main competitors and such but at the end of the day how...

Investment Valuation

asked Feb 1 '10 at 16:37

Aaron
124 points

I'm reflecting on the ideas of businesses partnering with other businesses who are targeting the same audience. The idea would be to "partner together" and help promote one another. eg. Business...

Ideas Business Partnerships

asked Jan 27 '10 at 06:15

Matt
460 points

ISO certifications are more prevalent in areas like manufacturing and physical services. How about web businesses and services? Are there well defined certifications for things like SAAS and SEO?...

Web Services

asked Feb 1 '10 at 17:16

Joe
277 points

My bootstrapped startup (Textaurant ) needs some help with market research. Since we're so close to two of my alma maters (undergrad is ~1 mile, grad is ~5 miles), I figured I would reach out to...

Hiring Interns Employees

asked Jan 13 '10 at 03:10

Josh Sam Bob
1,578 points

inspired by hubspot, we're dedicated to creating more remarkable content. we think it can be engaging and relevant for our customers. we feel mass-customized apparel is an area that doesn't have...

Ecommerce SEO

asked Jan 17 '10 at 18:11

User2275
11 points

I'm working with a SaaS business with a non-technical founder/CEO and am looking for pros and cons for (1) building the software in-house vs (2) outsourcing version 1.0 to a consulting firm. From...

Hiring Development Outsourcing Consulting Saas

asked Jan 8 '10 at 07:39

Torrie
230 points

Especially when the users are almost zero

Marketing Books Website

asked Jan 17 '10 at 22:19

Steven
1 point

There are various tools and advice about what you should be monitoring in "social media," meaning Twitter searches, blog searches, etc.. What kinds of things should you monitor? Are there broad...

Marketing Social Media

asked Jan 13 '10 at 06:00

Jason
16,231 points

I would like to get your opinion on bug/issue tracking packages. In my last software dev company we used JIRA with one of the flavors of Subversion. That was in 2007, so a lot has changed since...

Software Bug Tracking CRM

asked Jan 13 '10 at 06:07

Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points