Questions

I am planning to start an online company, which would be a social tool, much like instagram and kik messenger, but I fail to see how these companies promise to return the investor's money. History...

Venture Capital Monetization Investment Social

asked Jul 1 '13 at 13:23

Jani Kovacs
75 points

If you are hiring the second/third employee for a Web based SaaS company, then at which point of interview process you expect that candidate tries the product? Immediately? Before phone interview?...

Hiring Interviews

asked Jul 1 '13 at 14:40

User84686
139 points

I'm working on starting a small consultancy where I'm the head honcho for managing ideas, tasks, projects, clients, and workers. I want to use ultra cheap random Internet freelancers as much as...

Intellectual Property

asked Jun 9 '13 at 05:31

Themirror
130 points

I took part alone in a 4 months acceleration program for startups, during which I worked on the idea, I did market and customer research and all the usual things needed before start a new company....

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement

asked Jun 10 '13 at 06:51

Andrea
26 points

I'm working on a start up project that'll offer a video based product. The product will be distributed via the web, so i need a programmer to develop the website for it If you look at the project...

Partnerships

asked Jun 10 '13 at 09:15

C.Graco
11 points

I have a customer who wants to pay me by sharing the revenues. He already has a good user base on his PC software version, and we both know that a mobile app should sell quite well (let's say...

Software Revenue Mobile Apps

asked Jun 10 '13 at 09:35

Dalmas
103 points

My apologies if this has been asked before (I looked) and please point me to the relevant question. I put my S-Corp on hold for a while (3 months) starting in March. From January to March I was...

Tax 941 Quarterly

asked Jul 2 '13 at 04:37

Dave
160 points

We provide a utility-like service and have to charge a variable rate per API call. Most of our customers are businesses (B2B). Just like an electric bill, at the end of the month we can total the...

Saas Billing

asked Jun 11 '13 at 06:44

Rook
123 points

I received offer from company that just raised Series A round. I'm trying to determine a method of finding out how much my stock options are worth. They gave me multiple offers with varying...

Venture Capital Employees Tax Stock Options

asked Jul 2 '13 at 16:34

Harmon
6 points

I have been developing a web-based eCommerce niche app for the past year and am getting close to launching. While I cannot disclose too many details, lets just call it a sort of Shopify, but taking...

Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding Seed

asked Jul 2 '13 at 22:01

User1227914
131 points

Sorry if this has already been answered, but I could not find it anywhere. My company is based in Austin, TX, US, and is an LLC. Do I have to pay sales tax on open invoices? I.e., Invoices for...

Sales LLC Tax USA Invoice

asked Jul 3 '13 at 12:39

Kevin Soviero
180 points

I know an investor usually ask for a Drag-Along Right in the contract, who obliges minority shareholders to sell the company if the majority want so. Sometimes they could want to oblige you also if...

Investors Purchase Agreement

asked Jun 12 '13 at 07:35

Andrea
26 points

We have two different spaces in our office. one, in front of our building, contains our call centre, in the back we have our software development team. Our call centre team seems to like a serious...

Office Team Office Space People

asked Jul 3 '13 at 23:42

Sd Reyes
156 points

I'm thinking of starting an LLC for my app projects, and I'd like to keep a separate business credit card to make the corporate veil harder to pierce. However, a lot of my business expenses are...

LLC Credit Cards Accounting

asked Jun 12 '13 at 14:53

Archagon
111 points

my business partner and i recently decided to terminate our partnership. primarily my decision, but he reluctantly has agreed. we have one concept (a web consumer service/app) that we spent 6...

Equity Founders Agreement Dilution

asked Jul 3 '13 at 23:53

User732013
1 point

Im a web developer, and I've been asked to provide a quote on a small ecommerce website. Part of the quote includes domain setup and monthly fees, and by this Im presuming domain name registration...

Hosting

asked Jun 12 '13 at 15:43

Digiwig
6 points

I have a question similar to this one, with one difference: I'm going to be running my business while travelling the world over the next few years, both in the US and out. (I'm a resident of...

LLC Location Legal Tax Business

asked Jun 12 '13 at 15:56

Archagon
111 points

I run a small web development company. I take on a few clients and do much of the work myself. Typically I build e-commerce shops or basic wordpress sites. Sometimes the development is beyond the...

Management Outsourcing Billing Sub Contractors

asked Jun 12 '13 at 19:42

Start It
18 points

An open source project I designed & developed as my thesis in grad school has been continuing development through a non profit organization that hired me full time. Throughout my work there,...

Getting Started Legal Open Source

asked Jul 4 '13 at 01:54

Kim Prisin
16 points

Haven't been able to find a clear answer to this (as there may not be one), but what happens to the code of closed down startups? Putting aside the issue of whether they took VC or not, and...

Legal Code

asked Jul 4 '13 at 03:53

User464180
159 points