Questions

I have an idea for a website that myself and a partner have started to get going. One of our first steps was speaking with a web developer. The site may run over our budget. The developer (who is a...

Getting Started Venture Capital Web Services Investors Profit Sharing

asked Sep 19 '12 at 10:28

Melissa
6 points

How can I evaluate my online venture on the basis of traffic and user acquisition to estimate the value of my company and do financial projections. Say, an online venture has 1000 registered users...

Finance Valuation User Acquisition Fundraising

asked Sep 19 '12 at 03:42

Sourabh
288 points

In the early stages, the consensus in advice seems to be: Building an MVP: Use whatever is quickest. After you've got product market fit: Use whatever the team knows best/is best for the medium...

Acquisition

asked Sep 18 '12 at 23:40

User19712
6 points

We have our lead developer working for us remotely outside of USA. We would like to bring him over to US for a month - what kind of visa should he get to do this properly? Is B1/B2 a right choice?...

Visa

asked Sep 18 '12 at 22:04

Igor Romanov
118 points

Our company recently created a new department/unit that will develop apps for consumers. The company is engaged in the hardware reselling/distribution for 15 years and wanted to expand into the...

Bootstrapped Apps

asked Sep 18 '12 at 17:11

Fart Y Goer
11 points

I am learning Inbound Marketing techniques and trying to apply it within my company. No doubt, I have become a big fan of it. How it relates to time management? Time management is always easy to...

Time Management

asked Sep 18 '12 at 01:26

Ameya Phadke
56 points

This is more so theory than plans, and this is the only stack exchange that talks about corporate structure Is it possible to make a new shareholder class, arbitrarily, solely for the distribution...

Shares Corporation

asked Sep 17 '12 at 10:36

Cqm
137 points

I got hired as an early employee (employee #4) and considered as key engineer of the company. As compensation, I got some stock option grant (1%), and well below market salary (about 30% of what I...

Employees Compensation

asked Sep 17 '12 at 00:45

T. W.
11 points

I'm opening a gym with a friend, but I'm putting up all the funds. We've agreed to be "partners," but I don't know how to structure the ownership plan. I've considered offering him a low initial...

Partnerships

asked Sep 16 '12 at 14:44

User19680
6 points

I am starting an independent video game studio. I have a team of around half a dozen people who are currently at work on our first game. I'm not comfortable advertising the game under the name of...

Legal Legal Entity

asked Sep 16 '12 at 14:17

Jason Sage
103 points

I have a large client whose customer has raised the issue of placing my company's software in escrow. I'm going to incur expenses upfront in making the software buildable outside of my environment,...

Escrow

asked Sep 16 '12 at 11:04

Julie In Austin
223 points

Is it wise to keep a company that will no longer have any activity? and file zeroes on all its tax returns? Dissolving it might incur a higher one time cost. The company in question is a delaware c...

Company Tax IRS

asked Sep 16 '12 at 05:56

James
6 points

Just the question. I have a "company" which is basically just an online identity and is completely unlicensed (for the time being). Can I actually call myself the "CEO" of the company if it is...

Company CEO

asked Sep 15 '12 at 17:40

Abluescarab
103 points

Let's say I provide services for my clients (consulting/programming/training, etc.) but the services are provided on demand at the clients' request. I want to charge a fixed monthly fee to cover...

Contract Consulting

asked Sep 15 '12 at 05:14

Miguel M
1 point

I have question about some organizational issue. Is a good idea to split my main information website (home, about, contact, ...) and my core application service to domain and subdomain? For...

Website Organization Domain Web App

asked Sep 14 '12 at 08:42

Grzegorz
144 points

I have a Single Member LLC in California that started at the beginning of this year. I have a few employees whose payroll is done through a well known bank, and the payroll taxes are adequately...

LLC

asked Sep 14 '12 at 02:46

Carpe Diem
1 point

What are good and bad sides of telling the advertisers to use Google Adwords to place an ad on our website? (instead of setting up our own Advertisement Department and dealing with every advertiser...

Adwords Google Adsense

asked Sep 14 '12 at 01:05

Gury Max
23 points

I am a developer since quite some time. I am having some good ideas and plan to start a business in the startup world. I already have a friend who will join me as a co-founder. Now the problem is:...

Marketing Sales Business

asked Sep 13 '12 at 19:46

Torsten
176 points

Are there any books or research out there on how best to market "web programming" services? I find it's hard to communicate to clients the benefits of custom web programming. Also how to put it in...

Marketing Web Services Program

asked Sep 13 '12 at 12:53

Earle Davies
6 points

What are the Tax implications for US company hiring offshore software consultants? How different is it from hiring a consultant from US in tax filings? Are taxes higher for a US Company to hire an...

Consulting Tax Offshore

asked Sep 13 '12 at 10:14

All Spark
11 points