Questions

As many of you may know advisors can be key to a new startup, esp. with first time entrepreneurs.I wondered, how much time have your advisors say over the last month talked to you? My advisor (as...

Advisors Solo Entrepreneur Support

asked Jan 30 '13 at 11:55

Code Talk
253 points

So, I have an idea for a startup and have come up with what I consider to be an excellent name for it, however it contains a cuss word. Specifically "shit ". While I don't want to divulge the...

Company Domain Name

asked Jan 30 '13 at 14:29

Maxim Gershkovich
234 points

Having spent the last 2 years plotting business ideas and dreaming of the day I would resign I have finally given notice and am preparing to begin pursuing my dreams. However I have reached an...

Software Business Model Market Analysis

asked Jan 30 '13 at 14:48

Maxim Gershkovich
234 points

I have recently launched a new gallery selling my London artwork. I don't mind saying that the problem now is that I am unsure how to push the site forward and begin making sales. I know about...

Marketing

asked Jan 30 '13 at 21:38

Iconic Digital
108 points

I have recently started reading the blog and I feel it has been really helpful and helped me anticipate problems that I would not have foreseen otherwise. My question is related to the decision of...

Getting Started Strategy

asked Jan 31 '13 at 00:52

Trana
24 points

We have a software that we use to service our customers. The software processes certain state regulation documentation for a specific industry. We are starting to market this product to our...

Pricing

asked Jan 31 '13 at 08:55

Mins
11 points

I competed in a Facebook hosted hackathon at my university and my team and I were able to create a product that won second place in the competition - and for discussion's sake lets call it AppX....

Ideas Application

asked Jan 31 '13 at 09:55

Sfb
8 points

I've just been offered a developer job at a startup in the current situation. - Pre-Series A. - Current seed funding gives them a valuation of $5 mil. - 4 founders, no employees, 1 founder is a...

Equity Stock Options

asked Jan 31 '13 at 14:36

User23797
31 points

I am working on a startup that provides information services, kind of like dating website but for legal community. I wonder what kind of disclaimers are needed for pictures that show people giving...

Legal

asked Feb 1 '13 at 01:53

User23810
4 points

I would like to find a student to do some design work for my website. Is it OK to just give him recommendation letter but not pay?

Payments

asked Feb 1 '13 at 02:05

Marco
130 points

I'm currently starting up a mobile social networking application with zero funding. The app is currently in the mvp stage with a very thorough business plan, and my business partner and I are...

Advisors Equity Startup Costs Legal

asked Feb 1 '13 at 04:29

User23813
13 points

We are an early stage web startup, and do not have anyone with deep financial experience on our team. Is not a likely option at this point. We are pitching to investors in a contest setting next...

Pitch Financial Investors

asked Feb 1 '13 at 08:38

Laramie
192 points

Basically I want to start a company. I realize you cannot use this software for commercial purposes; hence the name. Basically I have lots of "Non-commercial" software installed on my main...

Software Legal Computers

asked Feb 1 '13 at 09:33

Annonomus Person
204 points

I started work at a company a few months back. I was brought in to head up a new division in the company. That division is separating as it's own LLC. I won't be investing any money into the new...

LLC Equity Tax Liability

asked Feb 2 '13 at 02:43

Jane
11 points

We want to launch a website where we put information about movies, music and more. Each item (movie, music etc.) will have it's own page. On this page there will be some information about the item,...

Legal Website Copyright

asked Feb 2 '13 at 04:17

Oskar Persson
109 points

How to fire a co-founder, which means mainly how to remove him from the funding process. We decided to get ride of one of our co-founder, we didn't fund yet, and we wanted to give him 20% share,...

Funding

asked Feb 2 '13 at 05:32

John
3 points

We are a location based social network connecting like minded people. We are ready with our product and want to select a city to start marketing. Basic costs touch upto $5k a month just for...

Marketing Location Social Network

asked Feb 2 '13 at 06:32

Rajiv Singh
14 points

My friend runs a website called XYZ.com but hasnt copyrighted the name XYZ. I would want to use XYZ as the name of my startup too and would like to copyright it this time. Do i have to ask him...

Getting Started Copyright

asked Feb 2 '13 at 14:38

Karthik Kannan
156 points

I am considering forming an LLC, developing a B2B service platform. I am an independent consultant/developer, and have been working with another individual for several years. Over this time, we...

LLC Business Corporate Structure Organization

asked Jan 24 '13 at 03:18

Conrad
108 points

Is creating multiple accounts and creating content on a user-generated content site a common solution to the classic "initial community" problem? It seems like a viable solution and certainly...

Advertising Website

asked Jan 24 '13 at 09:09

User12173
128 points