Questions

The name my cofounder and I would like to use is taken and the current owner quotes us $7000 for the domain name.Is it ever worth for a startup to invest a tidy amount of money like that in a...

Naming Domain Name Domain Names

asked Jul 23 '14 at 21:40

John Murray
6 points

The web is full of blogs creating link bait articles (list posts, etc) that do get a lot of backlinks and mentions on social media.Unfortunately, most of these articles aren't Pulitzer material...

Blog Content Writing Content Marketing

asked Jul 23 '14 at 13:28

Neil Fernandez
17 points

How do I link AdSense to each author to see how much revenue each individual author generates? I'm using Wordpress.

Metrics Google Adsense Performance

asked Jul 23 '14 at 04:27

Starrychloe S.
83 points

I'm the business co-founder in our startup and creating processes to keep things running smoothly and being able to focus on sales.Should startups have a process in the place for hiring? If so,...

Recruiting Founders Business Startups Process

asked Jul 21 '14 at 15:03

Ralph Setzer
9 points

I'm currently running a SaaS and I'm starting to look around to hire the first sales rep / sales agent, so the last few days I've read a lot about creating a sales plan, commissions, base...

Sales B2B Saas Commission

asked Jul 20 '14 at 22:46

James
6 points

What are some techniques (could be tried and tested ones or unique ones) to market a new night club online?I have thought about holding a contest on social media to get fans and followers as a...

Marketing Online Promotion Local

asked Jul 17 '14 at 18:59

Angel Welch
4 points

Under my agreement with my current employer, they retain ownership of everything that I create, both at work and side projects (the legal wording is very lose on this, and I guess it's like that...

Legal Jobs Side Projects Agreements Startups

asked Jul 17 '14 at 18:29

Cristina Rath
12 points

What are some ways to cope with working long hours 7 days a week on your startup? I have been working day and night for the last 3 months and it has taken a hefty toll on my health and well being.I...

Motivation Work Life Founders Inspiration Health

asked Jul 17 '14 at 13:56

Sheldon Echols
11 points

Does anyone on this forum have any good experiences in hosting a logo design contest? If so, which site, or sites, are the best? Also, does anyone have any advice on what to consider when...

asked Jul 17 '14 at 06:30

Rmd Work
11 points

A hardware company is keen to hire employee #1 at $42k/y salary and 0.5% equity (common) with a 4 year vest, 1 year cliff. The company has been around in one guise or another for ~1 year (though...

Equity Review Offer First

asked Jul 16 '14 at 23:22

User34083
11 points

I want to use a third party service for storing and processing my inventory for an eCommerce site. The logistics of packing and shipping are just too much for me to bear.The problem is that the...

Ecommerce Shipping Amazon Alternatives Logistics

asked Jul 14 '14 at 21:59

Harold Paschal
7 points

What are the best ways to promote apps that are mobile only? Most apps only have a 1 or 2 pager site that just links to their listing on the App Store. That isn't really a good way to bring in new...

Marketing Apps Mobile Apps Ios

asked Jul 14 '14 at 18:43

Alexandra Leong
2 points

We are a small company of less than 20 people. How do we provide opportunities for people to move up the ladder? We are not growing in terms of company size as our business runs pretty well at it's...

Employees Promotion Corporate Startups

asked Jul 14 '14 at 14:29

Allen Sullivan
9 points

What are your thoughts on this idea:People who create Kickstarter campaigns sometimes need a dummy prototype (looks like the final product, but isn't functional).Would there be a market for this? I...

Ideas Kickstarter

asked Jul 14 '14 at 13:27

Edwin Risner
14 points

I have a private forum which has grown over the years to now have 10K registered members.I recently added Google AdSense ads to all the forum pages. The ad appears after the first post.How do you...

Advertising Content Ads Adsense

asked Jul 11 '14 at 17:14

Richard Baldwin
12 points

The advice I have found so far indicates that you need product liability insurance if you "make a change" to a product (even if you are not the original manufacturer). Is adding software is a...

Insurance Legal Liability Lawyer

asked Jul 11 '14 at 16:17

User34062
6 points

How large of a factor do backlinks play in SEO rankings in Google?Is it possible to rank high for moderately competitive terms with little or no backlinks?If I put out great high quality content,...

Blog Google SEO Link Building Backlinks

asked Jul 11 '14 at 14:25

Roland Henderson
7 points

All the current dating sites (Plentyoffish, OkCupid, etc) started by first creating hundreds of thousands of fake profiles and activity to attract users.And then slowly scaling back on those fake...

Strategy Traffic Chicken And Egg Traction

asked Jul 11 '14 at 14:19

Kandy Max
12 points

If we were to incorporate our company in another company (where one of our co-founder lives), would that seriously limit our ability to raise money from venture capital firms?The primary benefit to...

Funding Venture Capital Legal Tax Tax Structure

asked Jul 10 '14 at 20:14

Ronald Whittaker
7 points

Almost no one gets to realize their metrics of success when they launch their startup. It's a long, arduous journey which no one anticipates until they launch their product, only to find that...

Motivation Solo Entrepreneur Founders Startups Execution

asked Jul 9 '14 at 15:58

Robert Pankratz
11 points