Questions

I'm looking to file a provisional patent application in Canada and the US. From what I've been told, the process is not easily out-sourceable, and I'm on a shoestring startup budget. I would like...

Patent Canada USA Provisional Patent

asked Oct 19 '12 at 01:59

Blueberryfields
426 points

I am planning to offer SEO and Web Development services(mainly SEO). It's a case of Bootstrapping. So my confusion is, if I create a website to offer services.. Should I present my website as a...

Getting Started Consulting

asked Oct 18 '12 at 18:55

Metadice
23 points

Question: How do you prevent a situation where you have to produce work-product work first and get client feedback before getting on the right track to meet their needs? Are there techniques to...

Management Customers Project Management Design Web Design

asked Oct 18 '12 at 10:34

Daniel Skowro?Ski
18 points

I have an idea for a company and I want to share it with potential investors. I'm a bit concerned about my ability to protect the idea. Should I get them to sign an NDA? Would that scare investors...

Legal Investors Intellectual Property NDA

asked Oct 18 '12 at 05:56

Sarah Simpson
23 points

My question is in the context of a Term-sheet. I want to know what does anti-dilution preferences mean?

Definitions Legal Investment Term Sheet

asked Oct 18 '12 at 05:36

Lisa Howard
116 points

We're a small SaaS provider for child welfare agencies and even though we have been in business for five years and offer one of the most robust case management solutions, we have a problem with...

Partnerships

asked Oct 18 '12 at 00:26

Zasyatkin
16 points

I am going to embark very soon on a software venture (have been a consultant and employee up until now). I see advantages in signing up for Microsoft's BizSpark. However, I wonder if doing so...

Funding Bizspark

asked Oct 17 '12 at 11:40

B. Clay Shannon
123 points

We're looking at hiring a systems administrator contractor at a certain hourly rate to do sysadmin-y things. So far, this is easy enough for me to wrap my brain around. But during certain hours,...

Independent Contractor Rates

asked Oct 17 '12 at 02:11

Todofixthis
183 points

The possible advantages of using something like Drupal is a dev time-saver. But if we were to develop a minimum viable product / proof of concept / prototype using Drupal, other developers could...

Copyright Open Source

asked Oct 16 '12 at 23:51

Gyrostu
6 points

I've seen a few posts on this site about crowdsourcing which imply that it's not possible to use kickstarter outside the US. I'm wondering where does this information come from ? Any sources ? I...

Funding Crowdfunding

asked Oct 16 '12 at 16:30

Dinaiz
116 points

My business is based in Australia, but most of my sales are made in the USA in US dollars, and most of the bills my business pays are also paid in USD (via debit card). I know that some...

Finance Bank Account Currency

asked Oct 16 '12 at 13:27

Paul Stovell
204 points

Co-founder performance in the startup has dropped. He clearly has other priorities in his professional life, like other startups, and he doesn't want to give up his 30% shares. The only written...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Oct 16 '12 at 05:35

South
176 points

What are the options available for online credit card processing? I have developed a website where I need to charge credit card. I will not be interested in storing credit card information. I know...

Credit Cards

asked Oct 16 '12 at 04:32

Ready To Compete
31 points

I'd like to transfer my one-member LLC to a close relative, and then transfer it back when I don't have visa status problem. After formation of my LLC in DE last year, there is nearly no operation...

Legal

asked Oct 16 '12 at 01:15

Crosssea
6 points

We recently closed a first round of investing for 3 million and paid in excess of 150k for our legal fees. We used a reputable firm and were lead to believe that the costs would be around the 50k...

Legal Investment Fees

asked Oct 15 '12 at 22:37

First Time Enterpreuner
26 points

We have some game development software called Construct 2. We are based in the UK. As far as we are aware, we're the only business with game development software called Construct. We'd like to...

Branding Trademark

asked Oct 15 '12 at 20:08

Tom
480 points

I run a website that conducts short story writing competitions for 10 months (each month different genre), and publish an anthology at the end of the year containing all the winning stories. It's...

Customer Feedback Customer Service

asked Oct 15 '12 at 16:52

User21143
16 points

I have a tech startup and we design consumer electronic products. For product design I need semiconductors ICs. So I searched over the internet and found that many reputed companies offer the ICs...

Electronics Hardware Manufacturing

asked Oct 15 '12 at 16:12

Sbr1990
6 points

I'm considering a startup which at its core is a content website; however I'd like to validate the idea before I invest too much of my time into it. That being said I'm not completely sure how I...

Content MVP Validation

asked Oct 15 '12 at 12:43

Nick Budden
129 points

I think that I've found the right company name, but I'm not sure about it. I'll like to hear others opinion, and I don't know how to do it in order to protect the domanin name and to get...

Company Naming

asked Oct 15 '12 at 02:31

Ctp
14 points