Questions

We'd like to startup a company that is seen as a UK company and be governed by UK laws, including Privacy laws. However, all of our operations, management and control will reside in Canada at least...

Founder Foreign Company Tax Subsidiary

asked Jan 29 '13 at 06:34

Kate
99 points

i have been offered a position in a start-up...i was initially told that my 100,000 share options were 0.25% of "the allocated shares". In my own research i came across terms for "diluted stock"....

Startup Costs Stock Options

asked Jan 29 '13 at 09:42

James
26 points

I'm developing an app for android, I found an icon that I would like to use, the icon is licensed under the CC Attribution 3.0 Unported license, which says that I can freely use it for commercial...

License

asked Feb 7 '13 at 18:49

Animaonline
113 points

Today I received a mail from Google which state that your app has been removed from Google play due to copyright infringement. The person who register this copyright issue is a person who run his...

Recommendations Application Copyright

asked Jan 29 '13 at 16:38

Sunny
116 points

Starting local news portal on specific industry. Lets assume, that this is healthcare news, and portal is in French. Question is: where to get news sources for that portal like latest news and...

Website Micro Startup

asked Feb 7 '13 at 21:56

Mark
1 point

I've spent quite a lot of time, met quite a lot of people, but still am failing at trying to find a cofounder for my startup. I've gone to numerous tech-meetups, met 1:1 with quite a few people,...

Co-Founder Recruiting Founders Problem

asked Feb 8 '13 at 00:41

Code Talk
253 points

X was working part-time on an idea and after about a year and a basic demo in hand, he talked to two potential people (A and B) who would become co-founders but would work part-time just like X....

Getting Started Co-Founder Ideas Equity Founders

asked Jan 29 '13 at 19:53

Vibgy
6 points

If you work full-time for a large Fortune 100 company and register a Delaware corporation, will your employer find out about it? Obviously there is some public record, but is this something easy to...

Incorporation Side Projects

asked Jan 30 '13 at 01:38

Paul
128 points

I have a small internet marketing business that is growing nicely. I'm also a mobile developer on the side. I have a few app ideas I came up with, with a few different friends. Aside from my...

Apps Partnerships

asked Feb 8 '13 at 05:14

Mnort9
201 points

I've been advised on multiple occasions that agreeing to a finder's fee as a percentage of capital raised is illegal in the United States, unless the "finder" is a licensed broker-dealer. Despite...

Investment USA Investors SEC

asked Jan 30 '13 at 02:33

Channel72
106 points

I have accounts with various advertisers and affiliate companies - let's just say Amazon Affiliates for the purposes of this discussion - and I've now registered a single-member LLC. During the...

LLC Tax USA

asked Feb 8 '13 at 11:05

Artem Russakovskii
106 points

I have been appoached by a private equity firm that has an idea -- a good one -- and $5M. They've asked me to be CEO and make it happen. They requested I make the opening bid for compensation and...

Equity Negotiation Compensation CEO

asked Feb 8 '13 at 13:44

User23925
21 points

The two of us are going to found a company and will work on all necessary tasks without taking pay at least for the first year. In this case, are we going to be Executive Directors? If so, will we...

Co-Founder Legal Company Founders Legal Documents

asked Jan 30 '13 at 03:16

Kate
99 points

I run a community for pug owners. It's been around for nearly 7 years and it's a "popular" site within the pug community. It's a completely custom site (I built the whole thing from...

Community Social Network

asked Jan 30 '13 at 04:14

Shpigford
146 points

a colleagues and I are trying to find the most appropriate name for our startup, is about software consulting for small companies. We already have established a small company that we deal with web...

Strategy Branding Naming

asked Feb 8 '13 at 23:25

Nikolai
125 points

I was wondering, if its safe to entirely drop facebook out of the focus and not bother with it at all. The company in question is B2B and sells enterprise level software with licenses range 10k -...

B2B Social Media Facebook

asked Feb 9 '13 at 00:29

user1721135
182 points

I own a small website hosting and services company. Most of my clients make automatic payments for recurring hosting services. However, what is the appropriate way to handle customers that have...

Hosting Customer Service Billing

asked Jan 30 '13 at 08:43

Matt Beckman
132 points

This is a general question for company shares: My partner and I have an equal stake in our company. We want to bring in a designer since both of us suck at UI. We have one in mind. Since we own...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Partnerships Design

asked Jan 30 '13 at 08:53

Joe
1 point

I have been working on a SaaS product for about a year and a half (on and off, among other projects). Lately I have gotten serious about the product. While doing a routine evaluation of competitors...

Legal Competition Terms And Conditions

asked Jan 30 '13 at 09:06

Joe A
1,196 points

We are two cofounders with unequal shares in our startup (70/30). If something happened to one of us (death), how are the shares handled in a will? Does the surviving cofounder have to pay...

Co-Founder Shares

asked Jan 30 '13 at 10:42

Jez
6 points