Questions

I'm planning to launch a website which involves collecting/issuing payments from/to customers. My website offers a service for customers in exchange of a small fee which customers pay using credit...

Ecommerce Payments

asked Mar 20 '13 at 08:59

Osama
1 point

I created some very useful training videos in Spanish (latam), and I want to monetize them. They are focused on students and professionals. How can I monetize them? Some ideas I've come up with...

Monetization

asked Mar 20 '13 at 11:23

D Llamas
11 points

I want to develop a tool which makes it easy for teachers and professors to write tests: multiple version, multiple choice, long answer, scantron, the whole works. The question is, would I be...

Software Web

asked Mar 6 '13 at 09:28

Ian93
118 points

I am not sure how to structure website for our SaaS product. Basically we want to tell 3 things: what is product about (it's relatively new and to our potential customers (small businesses) yet...

Website Saas

asked Mar 6 '13 at 23:39

Matej Zlodej
273 points

In the early stages of a start-up, my key market is digital signage, a hardware development kit I use requires signing an NDA to receive the SDK, as stated in the early stages of the start-up. Do...

Software LLC NDA DBA

asked Mar 21 '13 at 05:58

William
1 point

What are some clear signs that indicate you should consider changing your strategy and pivot? To set some context, I'm working on an product for more than a year now, mostly in spare time next to...

Lean Pivot

asked Mar 7 '13 at 01:46

Johannes Rudolph
348 points

On TechCrunch, I often see articles saying Company FooBar raised $10M in a Series A round, lead by Ventures Inc. In this context, who are "Ventures Inc"? What does it mean that they lead the...

Funding Definitions Investment

asked Mar 21 '13 at 10:56

Marty Pitt
171 points

I have an existing SAAS platform and I am in the process of working with multiple implementation partners or vendors for some enhancements. How do I make sure my source code is protected? Some of...

Technology Outsourcing Legal Intellectual Property Legal Documents

asked Mar 7 '13 at 03:35

User8226
197 points

Business Structure: LLC Country: US State: Texas City: Austin Income: So far? $0 I am forming an LLC and was looking into "business" checking accounts, and most charge some kind of fee. Either...

LLC Bank Account

asked Mar 21 '13 at 13:25

Kevin Soviero
180 points

I've checked other questions but none cover the topic of past contributions. I'm wondering how much weight does time spent before incorporating matter. Do Founder A earlier contributions have...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement Shares

asked Feb 23 '13 at 00:12

Jean Pierre
48 points

I have been working (solo) on a few side web projects for the past several months. My name can be found attached (via WhoIs) to the domains I've purchased and this got me to thinking about worst...

LLC Venture Personal Liability

asked Feb 23 '13 at 05:23

Yamori
6 points

I have recently read the book "Hit the Deck" by David Ronick, which suggests not to write a classical business plan and instead start with the pitch deck. This is based on the argument that...

Pitch Business Plan

asked Feb 23 '13 at 18:44

Ben
136 points

Hope you can help me out with little advice here. I recently founded a website and I have no technical programming. Perhaps I was lucky that I found a rich partner who can't work full time. But he...

Funding Startup Costs Founders Operations

asked Feb 23 '13 at 22:35

Trana
24 points

I am going to become first generation entrepreneur. I don't understand the actual meaning of VC, angel funding, seed funding. etc. Where can I know the meaning of all these type of funding? Which...

Funding

asked Feb 24 '13 at 18:15

Abhijit Navale
245 points

Will there be any ego problems when founding CEO ( not necessarily CEO - any person who founded the company and now running it) has low educational qualification than his new employees? What to do...

Education

asked Feb 24 '13 at 18:21

Abhijit Navale
245 points

I am basically involved in wordpress site development but a self starter for rails. I want to transform my idea into a rail app and I am contributing it on git(at a very initial level this time),...

Getting Started Software Development Partnership Open Source

asked Feb 24 '13 at 21:24

Swapnesh
113 points

I am working for simple desktop based application (windows). I would like to launch this application for free first and based on the customer response and for new features, I have plan to charge...

Registration

asked Feb 25 '13 at 00:21

Thileep
6 points

I know that a sourcing agent can charge his clients by hourly rate, but I don't think it is a wise strategy. If a sourcing agent charges a percentage of each order, then he has to be in the middle,...

Pricing Purchasing Sourcing

asked Feb 25 '13 at 14:37

Jack Chen
1 point

I work at an Oil & Gas Company in Texas and we use many 1099 contractors to get jobs done (welding, casing, and other services. I have started a side Bookkeeping/Accounting Business with very...

Conflicts Business Contractor

asked Feb 25 '13 at 14:49

Rob
6 points

I am from India. I want to launch e-commerce web site. For that purpose, I want to open LLC in New York. What are charges/taxes to open LLC in New York as foreigner/alien.

Getting Started LLC Startup Costs

asked Feb 25 '13 at 23:03

Simpanoz
109 points