Questions

I see various sites which ask for donations which look to be for profit. When I looked at PayPal's website their donate button seems to be specific for non-profit organizations. The reason I ask...

Online Donations

asked Oct 13 '13 at 08:36

James Oravec
115 points

My understanding is that you can get paid per thousand views of YouTube videos. My understanding is that you get something slightly different with ad sense, where you get a cut of number of click...

Marketing Adwords Advertising Traffic Online

asked Oct 14 '13 at 00:44

James Oravec
115 points

I wish to develop a few jquery plugins and sell them on a site like http://codecanyon.net. My question is, before developing a plugin, are there at least some guidelines as to estimating the...

Pricing Software

asked Oct 14 '13 at 01:59

Victor
137 points

I have read that for open source software developers, 3 common ways to make money are hosting, consulting, and support. I understand support and consulting but what is hosting? When I read...

Open Source Hosting

asked Oct 14 '13 at 03:25

Victor
137 points

Quite a lot of websites (glassdoor for example) give access to data about jobs, salaries, etc. through a REST API. So basically I can make an API call, get results and show the data on my website....

Data Request API Web Services

asked Oct 14 '13 at 04:54

Victor
137 points

I have been building a web service over the last year, and I have recently been in discussions with an established international company, on customising and licensing my web service to sell to a...

License Revenue

asked Oct 14 '13 at 13:24

Evil Raat
116 points

I'm currently working on a web application that will be used by medical clinics. We're discussing the pricing model we're going to use. We've already decided to go with a monthly subscription...

Pricing Subscriptions Web App

asked Oct 14 '13 at 23:22

Jonathan
126 points

what costs do I need to consider and factor into my total cost when determining how much to charge for a subscription service? I am developing a web based application with various subscription...

Pricing Startup Costs Website Saas Cost Estimation

asked Oct 15 '13 at 11:58

Mike Mc Mahon
103 points

Disclaimer: I've crossposted on Reddit. I'll preface this by saying that I'm in Canada, so some of the legal aspects might differ from the US, but I'm sure lots of them carry across. I'm...

Getting Started Web Legal Website Legal Entity

asked Oct 15 '13 at 13:50

Jmite
101 points

I have received and email from a potentially important person for my company. I don't mean the daily spam. I mean verified bigger company CEO. And this email is written in a style you would expect...

Saas Business Partnerships Communication

asked Oct 15 '13 at 19:59

578841441
111 points

I have a small problem - trying to figure out a way of doing the following: Accept payments without redirecting Take staged payments (it's a subscription service) When the payment is pulled on a...

Payment Gateway Paypal

asked Oct 15 '13 at 23:29

Josh
11 points

A CEO of a bigger company has contact me today asking if I am interesting in selling my Android application. He is asking for the numbers straight away and how much I want to sell it for. The app...

Saas Partnership Business Selling Mobile Apps

asked Oct 16 '13 at 01:06

578841441
111 points

When I investigate enterprise client software needs, I can easily identify a list of things that can make them happier. (none are necessarily directly cost-cutting or revenue gaining, but all...

Product Management Customer Feedback Market Research

asked Oct 16 '13 at 06:38

Max
113 points

Most sites (including mine) use cookies for analytics, and tracking site logins. I'm not explicitly targeting European users, and my servers are not based in Europe, but do I still need to add a...

Legal Cookies

asked Oct 17 '13 at 12:27

Steve
310 points

I am filling up the $800 LLC annual tax form for California and I am not sure what to include in the DBA. I think it means "Doing Business As" but is that just the name of the company again?

Tax Business California

asked Oct 18 '13 at 03:47

Ayrton Senna
124 points

We are currently in design stage for a SaaS product aiming at Indian market. Our initial (fairly local) market survey suggests that there is a demand for this product. The desktop version of this...

India Payments Subscriptions Saas

asked Oct 18 '13 at 20:03

User25018
109 points

I'm a developer and I've been working with a startup for awhile and things are now getting (more) formalized with regards to equity (grants) and vesting. I am getting equity as a developer but my...

Equity Business

asked Oct 19 '13 at 07:00

Daysareokay
6 points

If you have a startup business that could use any one of a number of different revenue models, how do you go about testing/evaluating each model? For example, you might try: Freemium model vs....

Business Model Revenue

asked Sep 30 '13 at 01:29

Steve
310 points

Assume Bob is looking for a job. Bob has the skills to develop something that within a few months may possibly double or triple the worth of a well established company. The company is aware of...

Equity Negotiation Partnerships

asked Sep 30 '13 at 02:22

Mi Gusta
120 points

I am the ideator that's put together the idea and packaging for an FMCG product. I'd prefer to have royalties paid to me instead of the idea and patent being purchased from me (by a company)...

Royalties

asked Oct 20 '13 at 03:59

Warren Van Rooyen
34 points