Questions

The city I have lived in for the past 10 years just isn't a very good environment for internet entrepreneurs and I feel like it's holding me back. I just graduated from college in December so I've...

Location Silicon Valley Inspiration

asked Jan 7 '10 at 16:51

Travis
26 points

We got a quote request from a reseller for one of their customers for about a 100 licenses of our software with 4 years of support. What is the a good way of structuring this quote without...

Pricing Sales Enterprise

asked Jan 3 '10 at 19:26

Poopsky
195 points

I'm a software developer/development manager with more than 18 years of hands on experience. For a year now a wonderful idea has fermented in my head. All the research I've indicates there is no...

Venture Capital Angel

asked Jan 4 '10 at 01:56

Ron M.
4,224 points

Over the years, I have had mixed results with hiring consultants for various jobs. I used to think that if they were referred, then that was good enough but that's not as consistent as I would...

Hiring Consulting

asked Dec 29 '09 at 23:49

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

For years, RIM's Blackberry devices were the corporate standard. Today, many businesses deploy smartphones running Google Android, Apple iOS, or Windows Phone as well. What are the pros and cons...

IT Phone Business Services

asked Dec 30 '09 at 00:58

Mathaix
510 points

A few of us in Waterloo are planning to launch a new co-working space, and we've done a lot of the ground work, but I'm looking for any non-obvious tips and suggestions from veterans. If you have...

Location Office

asked Dec 22 '09 at 04:54

Joseph Fung
1,542 points

We have a couple of options to name our company but we would like to find out which one is best accepted by users or which one is better associated with our product. In the past it was possible to...

Website Ab Testing

asked Dec 30 '09 at 03:12

Gera
91 points

I have a unique money making idea in the Social Web space. I have discussed the idea with some trusted friends who's opinions I highly value and they agree it is something unique. I also have a...

Ideas

asked Jan 8 '10 at 01:18

Mathaix
510 points

I've recently the post on the question: Subscription Pricing Starting Strategy: start high and lower, or start low and raise?, and I also read the articles and comments for: QuickSprout: Customer...

Planning Subscriptions Web Web Services

asked Dec 22 '09 at 09:28

Matt
460 points

Like many entrepruneurs, I operate multiple businesses under separate entities. They're all LLC/S-corps, and someone suggested that I form a holding company for additional liability protection and...

Incorporation

asked Dec 30 '09 at 04:17

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

In other webapps I've done I've always sent email from the same domain as the app. However for my next project I'm thinking of using a related domain. For example if my webapp domain was...

Email Deliverability

asked Jan 4 '10 at 05:42

Doug Martin
123 points

There are a variety of tips for YCombinator, but we haven't been able to find anything related to TechStars. Anyone out there have experience with them?

Incubators Application Seed Funding

asked Jan 4 '10 at 05:42

Greg Belote
798 points

I understand the restaurant market decently. $500 billion covers every food service location in the country, with about $180 billion of that covering full-service restaurants. Those full-service...

Research Market Analysis

asked Dec 30 '09 at 07:49

Josh Sam Bob
1,578 points

I am considering incorporating better metrics software on my site. The three option I am most familiar are Google Analytics, KISSmetrics, and MixPanel. Any thoughts on the pros/cons of each would...

Analytics Metrics

asked Dec 22 '09 at 14:22

Nima
11 points

Currently hosting is our second biggest expense (after payroll). The question of buying hardware or buying your own is probably a common dilemma for SaaS companies. At the moment, I am not...

Cost Benefit Hosting Lease

asked Dec 30 '09 at 09:19

Oleg Barshay
2,091 points

I often find myself wasting a lot of time finding the perfect name for my projects and checking domain name availability before I even start to really work on it. I guess this is the wrong way to...

Subjective Naming Project Planning

asked Jan 4 '10 at 11:44

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

For 2010, I think it's finally time to get a bookkeeper. We're doing it in-house now, which means that it's always behind schedule and not as accurate as I'd like. In an ideal world, we'd like...

Accounting Bookkeeping

asked Dec 11 '09 at 03:40

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

There are a few companies out there that seem to offer insurance packages for small(er) players in a market that want to be able to defend patents that are likely to be infringed. On the face of...

Insurance Patent

asked Dec 16 '09 at 01:07

Michael
250 points

Is it a copyright infringement to copy a user interface? I'm not talking about the specific graphics, but the layout and the way users interact with the application. For example, Blippy 's UI...

Legal Copyright User Interface

asked Dec 16 '09 at 02:31

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

I have one product I started developing earlier this year which I haven't touched in several months now. At some point I began to realize that as a single developer, I'm simply not prepared to...

Software

asked Dec 11 '09 at 08:36

Steve Wortham
287 points