Questions

My brother and I would like to start a property investment company / portfolio. Buying run down houses, doing them up and then either selling them or renting. The big question is how to split this...

Equity

asked Sep 6 '12 at 02:37

William Shakerley
1 point

I want to create a startup for US/UK based people, and then expand it to more countries. I am a self-employed/freelancer in Spain. I need to be able to bill my customers by credit card, so people...

Company Billing

asked Sep 5 '12 at 19:11

Alexandru Trandafir Catalin
157 points

I am developing a modest web site that shows content created by external providers. I use this content to promote my goods and sell them. Instead of paying a fix upfront price for the content (I...

Getting Started Payments Tax

asked Sep 5 '12 at 15:43

Serialfailer
8 points

We are from Russia. We have an idea for startup. We have money (we are investors). We dont have a developing team and dont want to create it. We need to hire a team with strong knowlegde of...

Developers Paypal

asked Sep 4 '12 at 19:44

Vlad Minaev
103 points

I'd need some help in understanding what I need to do, admittedly I am getting into this for the first time. I am full-time employed in a privately held company in the UK. Recently, I started doing...

Employees Tax Invoice

asked Sep 4 '12 at 19:28

Diferdin
116 points

Does content licensed under open licenses such as the Creative Commons Share-Alike or the GNU free documentation license affect in anyway software that uses such open content. The core issue is:...

Licensing Content Software Licensing

asked Sep 4 '12 at 15:51

Basel Shishani
106 points

I'm currently bootstrapping my startup but I'm finding that I don't have enough time at the end of a day of work to make enough progress. I'm not able to support myself enough to go full time yet,...

Part Time

asked Sep 4 '12 at 11:53

User19467
16 points

Working on a new B2C SaaS will allow our customers to accept payments online from their customers. Currently we're trying to decided whether its better to have a list of payment gateways for our...

Marketing Payments Saas Payment Gateway

asked Sep 4 '12 at 09:23

Delboud
16 points

I am starting to get very frustrated, after 2 yrs of crazy amounts of work and $70K invested and having my website online for 1 yr I already have 120,000 monthly visitors but still can't monetize...

Strategy Ecommerce

asked Sep 4 '12 at 04:31

Daniel
66 points

We currently running an early adopter with about 30 users getting ready for a private beta of our SaaS collaboration/project management tool for Agile software development team. Lean Startup camp...

Lean Beta

asked Sep 3 '12 at 20:45

Kulawat The Eidos
106 points

The biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make is to invent a distribution channel and a new product category at the same time. - Dave Brown Why is it the biggest mistake? (to invent a...

Quote

asked Sep 3 '12 at 18:21

Voloda2
111 points

When asked in person, or in an survey, the number of employees a startup has, should one count contractors in that number? What about part-timers or interns?

Employees

asked Sep 3 '12 at 04:51

Philip Seifi
132 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? I'm in a position where a colleague has offered me a percentage of a startup that is just getting off the...

Founder Negotiation

asked Sep 3 '12 at 02:49

User19467
16 points

During its mission to raise popularity in the midst of the dot-com boom in '98, TravelZoo gave a few free shares to each person who signed up for their mailing list. Hypothetically, let's say I'm...

Marketing Incentives Incorporation Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Sep 2 '12 at 14:24

Maxim Zaslavsky
101 points

I am a sole Proprietorship in California. Where can I find a list of acceptable or not acceptable business expenses I am allowed to deduct from my income. Do I need to reimburse myself in anyway...

Tax Accounting Expenses Sole Proprietorship

asked Sep 1 '12 at 22:13

Marco
130 points

I've been through several rounds of technical (software developer) interviews at a start-up and have done pretty well. I've been invited back for the final round which will be with the CEO. I...

Equity Interviews Exit Strategy

asked Sep 1 '12 at 18:22

Onmyway
13 points

I have been working in a company for a month. They buy my service instead of hiring me, so they ask me to set up my company. I do some drawing and design work for them. I want to know what kind of...

Insurance California USA

asked Sep 1 '12 at 14:47

Marco
130 points

What determines who has authority to sign a contract on behalf of the company? What if a low level employee signs a contract in the name of the company, is it still binding? What happens when...

Contract Legal Legal Documents

asked Sep 1 '12 at 13:17

Aaron
21 points

My co-founder and I recently went through the process of incorporation. I just got back the documents for the filing of a Delaware C-Corp and noticed my lawyer setup my co-founder as director and...

Incorporation Company Delaware

asked Sep 1 '12 at 08:40

Rjgonzo
157 points

My business partner and I have formed a partnership, we are in the process of drafting our partnership agreement. One of the points that he wants on there is: If one of the partners leaves they...

Co-Founder Partner Shares Profit Sharing

asked Sep 1 '12 at 03:02

Ryan Murphy
108 points