Questions

I run a small web development shop (only 3 guys currently), and I was wondering what the legal ramifications were of hiring someone in the US illegally. He told me he has no plans on becoming a...

Contractor

asked Jun 2 '12 at 02:11

Jeremy Boyd
110 points

Sure, it would be ideal to find a tech cofounder, but that is not always possible. It is easy to oursource the work to build the initial website, but as the website grows and user activity...

Outsourcing

asked Jun 2 '12 at 01:55

Sk24iam
344 points

I have seen quite a lot of questions/doubts and concerns here on http://answers.onstartups.com about partnerships. Splitting, percentages, responsibilities, legal obligations etc etc. In my...

Partner Legal Partnership Partnerships

asked Jun 2 '12 at 01:30

User983248
489 points

So my co-founder and I spent 10 months and launched a social network 2 weeks ago. We are doing simple fb ads and craigslist advertising and have reached 200 users. As anyone will say, our idea is...

Marketing Startup Costs Venture Capital Entrepreneurs Social Network

asked Jun 2 '12 at 01:24

R W
8 points

For years I've been using "FOB our office" to signify that the buyer pays for all shipping door-to-door, insurance, import duties, etc. In other words, we hand the package to the FedEx guy and...

International Shipping

asked Jun 2 '12 at 01:22

Martin's
121 points

A few months after completing a website, a client is requesting a small change (literally changing one word to another on the site). I'm tempted to do this 10 second change for free, except that...

Payments

asked Jun 2 '12 at 00:44

Mirov
384 points

If I could partner with 2 or more part time developers, would this be enough and as good as having a full time developer? Eg 4 part time developers = 2 full time developers? I am basing this on...

Co-Founder Development Open Source

asked Jun 2 '12 at 00:20

I Scotts
152 points

I'm a Web developper and have a dating website idea. I'll meet in the next few weeks some webmarketers that could be my potential partners. I'll talk about the idea of course and make them an...

Ideas Partner NDA

asked Jun 1 '12 at 22:52

Younès
120 points

I have found certain shareware software products have large number of downloads. My question is if there are some 20,000 free downloads, how many of the downloaders would have actually bought and...

Software Website Market Online Conversion

asked Jun 1 '12 at 20:43

Techno
128 points

There's a lot of rhetoric, on both sides, about why businesses succeed and fail, but I've seen really no good numbers backing up the claims of either major political party. (in the US) Sure,...

Statistics Failure

asked Jun 1 '12 at 16:51

Splinter Reality
106 points

So my new startup is ready and I want to market it to people living in china.I live in India.How should I put best efforts to advertise to Chinese People living in China.

Marketing Advertising

asked Jun 1 '12 at 13:50

Himanshu Prasad
51 points

I'm developer. I had an idea for a company, came up with a name and everything, and decided to bring in a business development partner. The responsibilities for him were: 1. do business operations,...

Partnership

asked Jun 1 '12 at 13:03

Joey Stieben
11 points

My company is a U.S. C-Corp and we have recently created a stock option plan that allows for both ISO and NSO option grants. We have a foreign contractor located in China who does work for the...

Foreign Stock Options Contractor

asked Jun 1 '12 at 08:47

Tricia Yee
16 points

I am currently employed by a company whose core business is not IT-related but I have developed a few applications that are central to some crucial business processes and I want to create a startup...

Incentives Equity Employers Intellectual Property Conflict Of Interest

asked Jun 1 '12 at 02:02

Assylias
103 points

I want to sell a software product. I would like to use a brand name e.g. mysoftcompany in the EULA (End User License Agreement) and in the contact details of webpage. So that the software is sold...

Software Legal Website Business

asked Jun 1 '12 at 01:51

User17330
18 points

This is my first business so excuse me. I'm establishing a salary for myself as an employee but suppose I wanted a percentage of sold goods also. Should that be included in the budget against sales...

Legal Business Plan Salary Commission

asked Jun 1 '12 at 01:09

Chieftec
10 points

Assuming a venture-backed startup with seed financing that plans to raise further rounds: does it make sense to buy things or should it go for renting/leasing? "Renting" something (office...

Finance Venture Capital Office Investors Operations

asked May 31 '12 at 23:28

Sascha Konietzke
118 points

I am involved with a startup that has a very unique structure. We started as friends, all working in our spare time, never intending for it to become a business. Eventually, it started catching on...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Vesting

asked May 31 '12 at 14:32

Lbc
16 points

My friend approached me with a business idea of selling a service to allow US business owners to incorporate in Dubai in order to avoid taxes. She resides in Dubai and owns a business there, and...

Business Model Tax Business Plan Business Offshore

asked May 31 '12 at 10:55

Chris
1 point

So like others, I had a great idea, built the site and it functions very well. There is no other site out there that does this, and it's truly a very useful site. Now here is the problem, I have a...

Website

asked May 31 '12 at 09:48

Mike
19 points