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Imagine the following scenario: 1 founder and self proclaimed CEO , created an idea for a new website internet services, and started developing it. The core of the system is done, he decides that...

Co-Founder Hiring Angel Founders

asked Oct 15 '12 at 02:26

South
176 points

I'm in discussions with a programmer to do contract work for my startup. He works full time programming at a Massachusetts company whose business is unrelated to mine and my project would be done...

Intellectual Property

asked Oct 14 '12 at 22:36

Kevin
11 points

I'm looking to build a website that compares car specifications, and possibly some reviews. I'd like to add some photos of the cars to the site. I'm a little concerned about copyright implications....

Copyright

asked Oct 14 '12 at 04:54

Darthg8r
114 points

I am starting an eCommerce marketplace. I am about to give the go ahead to my designer to start work- however I have already paid 2000$ for development. But, for the maintenance only he is...

Website Web Services Web Design

asked Oct 14 '12 at 04:36

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

I am in the early stages of bootstrapping a startup. The product is a cloud-based service for businesses within a very specific industry. I have worked as a UX & UI developer and design...

Getting Started Partnership

asked Oct 13 '12 at 19:54

Conrad
108 points

I am hoping to generate some revenue by sending out emails to interested people about giving a gift to the company. I am aware in order to say "donation" you must be a 501(c)(3) however if you...

LLC Payments Donations Gifts

asked Oct 13 '12 at 18:10

Grant Wilkinson
105 points

I'm starting a small business (just me, no employees) doing graphics that can be purchased digitally and/or the originals mailed, as well as live graphic recording and graphic facilitation, and...

Business Travel DBA

asked Oct 13 '12 at 13:18

Justwanttogetstarted
16 points

As a startup, we are talking to a business development consultant. He will do business development in a particular country for us. What are the key terms we need to be careful about in a contract...

Independent Contractor Business

asked Oct 13 '12 at 00:40

Ben
1 point

I know it might vary depending of kind of product. I'm planning to register a very unique Intellectual Property internet service patent Let's suppose the world doesn't have search engine yet, and...

Intellectual Property

asked Oct 13 '12 at 00:36

Edwin Soho
30 points

Formed LLC, but wonder how to account for inventory I've already purchased and will now sell via the company. I've been re-selling as a hobby, and now converting to a business. I'm in the US. No...

LLC Tax

asked Oct 12 '12 at 09:16

Rob
6 points

I have been asked by many startups to help them with their core machine learning IP Unlike outsourced software development, machine learning is difficult to outsource or even to specify because it...

Contract Consulting Intellectual Property Legal Documents

asked Oct 12 '12 at 01:04

Charles Martin
26 points

I know many questions with same subject has been asked, i am asking this question after reading many of them. I am working as an IT person to keep doing my day to day expenses but there is one...

Motivation Focus Incubators

asked Oct 11 '12 at 18:55

Finding Nemo
43 points

Complex Linux solutions are commonly packaged as virtual appliances. I'm interested in the Windows side of this, but haven't been able to find much relevant information on the web. We are...

Software Microsoft

asked Oct 11 '12 at 16:42

Cocowalla
327 points

As the FAQ for this site notes: Topics include financing, hiring employees, legal, marketing, sales, compensation plans, banking, payroll, benefits, and more. There are a lot of different but...

Management Leadership

asked Oct 11 '12 at 13:53

Randy Syring
116 points

I run a small but very successful startup, that has been around for 13 months now. We are a 10 person team, but are rely on an aging Exchange 2003 server for our email, calendar, and contact...

Saas Email Ms Exchange

asked Oct 11 '12 at 06:21

Cdd
46 points

We are hunting a company to provide SEO services. They asked us whether we need online or offline SEO services. Can anyone please provide what these mean in laymans language? For a sports based...

Marketing SEO

asked Oct 11 '12 at 02:58

Rajiv Singh
14 points

Is it any kind of practice to recognise companies in which I have a business to business relationship with? For example, putting a small logo for my attorney on my company's website. "We enjoy...

Website Relationships

asked Oct 10 '12 at 11:10

Hatch108
120 points

I am starting an ecommerce marketplace of local vendors. one of my sources of revenue will be lead generation, however I am pretty undecided on how much to charge vendors for every lead I would...

Ecommerce Entrepreneurs

asked Oct 10 '12 at 03:01

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

A couple years ago, I started a group/team of passionate people in game development. I was the one who had the idea to form a group that will (hopefully) later be a company/real studio. I was the...

Gaming Company Salary Profit Sharing

asked Oct 9 '12 at 19:12

Drowneath
21 points

We build an application that uses Java's Servlet 3.0 features. Among others, we use heavily its Non-blocking IO support therefore a high CPU requirement should be expected. Furthermore, we use...

Hosting

asked Oct 9 '12 at 08:08

Ionut
109 points