Questions

I keep reading about the high percentage of tech startups in the US that are founded by immigrant entrepreneurs (39% in California ). I also keep reading about how hard immigrating to the US is for...

Getting Started Foreign Legal

asked Apr 6 '13 at 16:01

Tyler
24 points

Now, my family business is 2 years old. Every month, we get the profit from our online retail business, specializing in apparels for baby & child. But we realize that all the money is always...

Financial Cash Flow Online Retail

asked Apr 22 '13 at 01:28

Kalingga
245 points

In the beginning of our online retail shop, we always have many thinkings about how much profit will we make per item that we sell in our online shop. But by the time, after 2 years, we ran the...

Marketing Prices Business

asked Apr 22 '13 at 01:47

Kalingga
245 points

I'm a CEO, and I'm wondering how to structure a deal for my first other CEO? The purpose I need another CEO is because I've got my hands full with my own line of products, but I'm an idea guy and...

Negotiation Corporate Structure CEO Business Structure Overseas

asked Apr 22 '13 at 18:34

Ron
21 points

I'm a very small business with limited means. I sent a shipment to Australia from the United States via USPS Priority Mail. I charged the customer the USPS's cost $34.80 for shipping plus for three...

Shipping

asked Apr 7 '13 at 06:16

Lee Richardson
108 points

I just launched my business which I have been developing for about a year. And in less than 2 months the business already has about 12 dedicated clients and we have made sales and refilled our...

Partner Equity

asked Apr 23 '13 at 01:18

Rasheeda
65 points

I currently write a lot of proprietary code that's buried away in some corporation and will never see the light of day (or another coder's eyes for that matter). But this will be my first endeavor...

Contract

asked Apr 23 '13 at 09:35

Snake Doc
179 points

I am developing something like a web application framework in Ruby, and I want to turn that into a business. The application is provided as a single library, and can be used by simply require -ing...

Platforms Web App

asked Apr 8 '13 at 14:30

Sawa
110 points

Coming up with ideas for entrepreneurs isn't really a problem. Execution on the other hand, as I have experienced, is by far the hardest thing to keep on top with, especially if you have to keep...

Planning Lean

asked Apr 23 '13 at 13:11

Janharold
11 points

I have a coupon website and I have approached a few online stores and offline stores to partner with them to offer their coupons. Very often I get this answer from them "coupons are unsustainable....

Ecommerce Website Affiliate

asked Apr 8 '13 at 19:16

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

One service will be used for region A because it offers paypal, the second one will be used for region B (it does not have paypal option) but offers automatical generation and sending invoice for...

Ecommerce Payments Saas Payment Gateway

asked Apr 8 '13 at 20:20

Alexey Grigoryev
62 points

Two month ago I've joined with two friends to build a startup. I came with the idea and we started working. Two weeks ago, the first partner left the project due to lack of time. The second partner...

Legal Founders Agreement Partnerships

asked Apr 23 '13 at 20:17

Thedp
106 points

I have a person on staff who has been doing a lot of admin type work: support, billing, etc. I am thinking that I will want another programmer (PHP/MYSQL/etc) in the next 6-12 months for some new...

Software Management Employees

asked Apr 9 '13 at 01:27

Simon
165 points

This may sound like a very naive question for a site on Startups, but...how do payroll taxes work? From what I can tell from doing database work at a company they seem to consist of percentages of...

Tax USA Payroll

asked Apr 9 '13 at 05:54

Leeand00
108 points

I have been given an offer to join as a partner for an existing startup as the technical owner, and am not sure what is fair in terms of equity. The current owner has the connections and...

Partner Equity Partnership

asked Apr 24 '13 at 08:43

Guest215
6 points

We are in a sticky situation, that is no ones fault but our own. We had approached a developer to join our startup. After showing him the project he was excited and decided to join. Our mistake was...

Co-Founder Legal Investors Intellectual Property

asked Apr 24 '13 at 15:13

Derek
164 points

This is more like a behavioral problem. I always want to start a business. Since this feeling increasing day by day, I am more obsessed in my day job(software Engineer). 1.I have few startup...

Work Life Entrepreneurs

asked Apr 9 '13 at 19:09

Codebrain
187 points

So I was thinking of calling my software company 'something'-soft. e.g. Perrysoft. Do people read that as copying or cashing in on the name Microsoft?

Name

asked Apr 9 '13 at 22:02

Ian Warburton
113 points

I was wondering, is it necessary to build a mobile version product website, in order to promote your mobile app? I take Evernote for instance, I do not see they provide a mobile version product...

Website Promotion Mobile Mobile Apps

asked Apr 24 '13 at 15:28

Cheok Yan Cheng
119 points

Do I need to register OR incorporate my start up to be able to legally hire people? This start up will be in India. Can I give written appointment letter if I am just a sole proprietor? Will it be...

Legal Hire

asked Apr 24 '13 at 17:55

Abhijit Navale
245 points