Questions

What's the biggest failure you had while building a startup and what was the take away?

Success Founders Failure Learning Startups

asked Jun 16 '14 at 21:25

Verdell Smith
22 points

I had a page with an obscure url that wasn't linked from any other page and no where on the web. My sitemap file didn't include this page either.Yet I just saw that Google indexed the page and it...

Google Search Engines Search Search Ranking

asked Jun 16 '14 at 20:44

Mark Christensen
7 points

In the signup process for our CRM software, we collect cell phone numbers from customers. Would it be too intrusive to SMS a tip on how to better use the software once/twice a month?They would be...

Software Customers Trial Conversion SMS

asked Jun 16 '14 at 14:40

Jennifer Hillyard
14 points

I guess the common term for this in the valley would be to pivot.If we raised money from angel investors, and it turned out the startup isn't going to succeed, could we pivot the company to a...

Ideas Pivot Angel Investors Startups

asked Jun 15 '14 at 19:13

Kent Campbell
17 points

If there was no paperwork done between the co-founders and one of them decides to leave all of a sudden, can the remaining co-founder still continue building that business?Could the founder who...

Co-Founder Contract Equity Legal

asked Jun 13 '14 at 16:56

Omar Gonzalez
16 points

I have a solo founder (technical) who has hired 8 full time contractors on ODesk for my startup. We have launched an MVP and starting to get some initial traction.Would VCs reject such a startup...

Solo Entrepreneur Venture Capital Employees Contractor Odesk

asked Jun 13 '14 at 14:13

Mark Ballard
14 points

Assuming you have a SaaS company that is already generating over $1M per year in gross revenue, how much of that should you allocate towards R&B and product development?In the early stages,...

Products Development Saas Revenue

asked Jun 12 '14 at 18:41

Nellie Lee
12 points

I am venturing to start a consulting firm that does social media marketing and content creation. Starting with nothing except my knowledge about the field, how do I create a network and establish...

Social Media Consulting Consultants Clients Content Marketing

asked Jun 12 '14 at 18:14

Alexandra Guerrero
12 points

Which is better for explaining your product on the homepage? There is a trend of having videos above the fold on the homepage that explains your startup.Maybe I'm biased by my own usage patterns,...

Video Conversion Landing Page Startups

asked Jun 11 '14 at 18:40

Timothy Lund
12 points

How should a small startup organize their hiring pipeline? We're a team of 8 so don't have a dedicated HR person. Way too early for that. So we keep an excel file to manage candidates we interview....

Recruiting Hiring Organization

asked Jun 11 '14 at 14:56

Michael Brown
14 points

I found a really good title for my start-up (I least I think). It is short, not too descriptive (but still a little bit) and brandable. In the first place, my product will be localize in Canada...

Name Domain Names

asked Jun 11 '14 at 13:38

Francis L
33 points

What makes some pre-launch sites great? There is a lot of talk about beginning to market your site well before launch. How does one do that on a "coming soon" page?Most of the pages I've seen just...

Marketing Launch Startups

asked Jun 10 '14 at 12:44

Michael Strunk
19 points

I'm working on an eCommerce project from past few months. Now I want to buy the products from a supplier. I don't have an idea about from where to find suppliers. Is there any source which provides...

Products Contract Ecommerce Supply Chain

asked Jun 10 '14 at 07:36

Sky Buzz
36 points

I'm a non-technical founder who has been able to get by with outsourced consultants on ODesk for a while.But now that revenues are growing, I want to hire one or two PHP coders onsite. I've posted...

Recruiting Hiring Employees Startups Software Engineers

asked Jun 9 '14 at 18:10

Sonya Dave
24 points

Does anyone have any insight on what it takes to start a new ISP (like Comcast, but at a smaller scale)?Do you need a significant amount of money to even get going and lay your own infrastructure?...

Resources Lease Internet Service Money

asked Jun 9 '14 at 14:02

Leslie Patterson
17 points

I came here to ask about: How do companies divide their equity shares among the founders and investors? For example, consider two persons are building a company. Person1 came with the idea of an...

Funding Equity Investment Shares Startup

asked Jun 9 '14 at 07:28

Sky Buzz
36 points

Regarding this excerpt from Paul Graham's essay The Equity Equation:Let's run through an example. Suppose the company wants to make a "profit" of 50% on the new hire mentioned above. So subtract a...

Equity Accounting

asked Jun 7 '14 at 05:43

User33952
1 point

If you raise a small amount of money (under $50K) on Kickstarter for a product you want to build, can you pay yourself a small salary along the way? I am quitting my day job to focus on this...

Funding Salary Crowdfunding Kickstarter

asked Jun 6 '14 at 16:58

Mary Pritchett
17 points

We're just getting started with scaling our business and one of the things we want to implement is a 4/1 work day. 4 days are spent working, and 1 day is for individual projects (just like Google's...

Employees Human Resources Team Project

asked Jun 6 '14 at 15:27

William Green
14 points

I have a developer account already that I pay $99/year for. How can I (and should I) submit apps as my LLC instead?Does that offer any benefits apart from users seeing a company that made the app?

Apps Mobile Apps Apple App Store Ios

asked Jun 6 '14 at 00:26

George Lopez
9 points