Questions

I've been outsourcing for a while to create the MVP on a web app. I never get what I'm asking for from these outsourcing teams, they take longer than expected, or they just disappear. It's been a...

Getting Started Lean

asked Feb 19 '13 at 04:28

Zapoo
303 points

I've gone to countless networking events, underground entrepreneur groups, cofounder sites like CoFoundersLab, etc. I'm looking more on the business-dev. end. I've talked to quite a few 1:1 and...

Getting Started Co-Founder Founder

asked Feb 19 '13 at 07:14

Code Talk
253 points

I keep reading about how search engines like google keep changing and optimizing their algorithms so I wonder how effective SEO is beyond the basics of having the right keywords, robots.txt, etc...

Marketing PR SEO

asked Feb 9 '13 at 04:47

Zugwalt
135 points

I have been planning for years and slowly working on launching my own business again. I have read many articles and I have debated on going the route of an investor but I am unsure on if I should...

Investors

asked Feb 9 '13 at 08:22

Matt 2.0
188 points

We offer a free, cloud based B2B application - it offers the same and more functionality than most if not all of the paid equivalent applications out there at no cost. We offer awesome support...

Customers Saas Customer Feedback Freemium Free

asked Feb 20 '13 at 01:58

Bhttoan
735 points

Some mobile apps have this problem of empty bar - in theory the service is cool, but as there are not many users, it is not so attractive. There are not so many users, so others won't try and...

Mobile Apps User Acquisition

asked Feb 20 '13 at 04:06

Adam
16 points

A few friends and I have started building small apps and WordPress plugins in our spare time, and I'm wondering what would be the best business structure (LLC, S-Corp, etc) as I think it's almost...

LLC Partner Equity Part Time S Corp

asked Feb 20 '13 at 06:14

Jeremiah Prummer
441 points

I created a LinkedIn company page a while back, but never did anything with it. Now I’m considering spending a little bit of time trying to use the company page to create brand awareness and...

Social Media Branding Linkedin Lead Generation

asked Feb 10 '13 at 02:55

Zuly Gonzalez
9,194 points

We are a small business and use Xero.com (which is an accounting system without ERP functionality). What we have found that we have at times lost track of items requested by the customer, and have...

Finance Business Process Accounting Invoice

asked Feb 10 '13 at 05:57

G18c
113 points

I have been lately trying to find different products to create to make money. I have been trying to find out what regulations are there on small appliances for the kitchen (coffee makers and...

Products Food

asked Feb 10 '13 at 08:46

Annonomus Person
204 points

What are some innovate ways to help welcome and integrate new users in a paid community where a free trial is offered? Let me provide my specific example, current solutions, and potential issues....

Community

asked Feb 11 '13 at 06:23

Jeff Gaudette
45 points

I'm in the midst of conducting research on starting up a small consulting/services business. Some of the services provided would involve developing proprietary algorithms. I would like to avoid...

Recruiting Legal NDA

asked Feb 11 '13 at 08:27

Nick Evans
23 points

Well some think its a duplicate to another question but i think its different cuz all four of us in the team are not the coders, developers or programmers & also my question is different cuz...

Equity Stock Options

asked Feb 12 '13 at 04:03

Lovable Chris K
1 point

After searching and referencing many types of business plans I am trying to figure out how to forecast my competitors profits to demonstrate the potential profit for the company. However, I am...

Business Plan Investors

asked Feb 12 '13 at 06:23

Matt 2.0
188 points

We have a small but rapidly growing cloud based product which is currently free and we are about to move into the monetization stage. In the last week we have been followed on Twitter by a tech VC...

Venture Capital Saas

asked Feb 12 '13 at 21:52

Bhttoan
735 points

There's a brand new startup which has a lead developer. The other co-founders who are not technically savvy are thinking of bringing in 3 to 5 developer interns during the summer because the...

Interns

asked Feb 12 '13 at 23:32

Thierry Lam
136 points

As is obvious I am located in the US but my customers are in the former Soviet Republics. So I am looking to register a domain localized for them. For example most web hosting providers in the US...

Domain Registration

asked Feb 13 '13 at 01:13

Karlson
1,779 points

(i cant find a stack relating to "Crowdfunding" or similar so decided to put this in here, please feel free to migrate it to a more suitable stack if you know of one) I am currently running a...

Shipping Kickstarter

asked Feb 13 '13 at 02:39

Darkcat Studios
190 points

I'm working for a client who is doing business as a LLC in CA. He represents merchants by advertising them on certain websites. His commission is taken out from the sales received from the...

LLC Tax Independent Contractor

asked Feb 13 '13 at 03:50

Cong Xiao
6 points

So now the business logic, back-end development, are all done. The website is built with Twitter Bootstrap, look and feel are basic, but not top notch. Should I spend more time...

Web Design

asked Feb 3 '13 at 03:38

Victor
593 points