Questions

I am an Engineering student. I have killer products for startups. Should I launch it today or should I get MBA expertise first? Please, help.

MBA

asked May 7 '12 at 04:00

Sachin Shekhar
260 points

I had a mobile application idea and shared my idea with my co-worker. Later, he suggested we file for a provisional patent together. We verbally agreed that each of us owns half of the patent...

Patent Provisional Patent

asked May 6 '12 at 17:21

User17835
21 points

My business model is subscription based therefore I need to use a payment service that is practical for this purpose. Unfortunately, as far as I researched, such services are only available to US...

Incorporation Foreign Tax

asked May 6 '12 at 16:49

Kaan Soral
66 points

I'm trying to generate a reasonable valuation for my content/community based startup. It has not launched yet. How do content/community based startups come up with their first valuation. For...

Valuation

asked May 6 '12 at 02:09

Marc
113 points

I am trying to determine when I should quit my job to pursue a startup. Here is what I feel are the pros/cons of leaving Pros Can focus more / no time constraints Iterations are much quicker (I...

Getting Started Venture Capital

asked May 6 '12 at 01:28

David
51 points

I've developed a Thunderbird extension which allows users to create and share notes for emails. I would like to advertise it and sell subscriptions to the sharing service. Unfortunately AdWords...

Adwords

asked May 5 '12 at 21:45

Alehro
113 points

I own a US C coporation and i've linked a checking account to it with an EIN. I'm a freelancer and I've received some payments for my services through Google checkout & Paypal, The total amount...

Incorporation Tax

asked May 5 '12 at 21:35

Ryan
139 points

I have a newly formed LLC in California which I did through Legal Zoom. I understand I need to be careful with cash flow (with respect to where it comes from and goes). I am also in the process of...

Funding LLC

asked May 5 '12 at 19:47

Jason
124 points

I have a business website where I have the marketing and support pages for a Mac app that I've developed. I also bought the domain name for the app which has the format myappname.com. Should I move...

SEO

asked May 5 '12 at 13:45

Mike T
174 points

I've started a software consultancy and an large fortune 500 company has approached us for a project. it's an internal CMS that will take roughly 5-6 months to develop with a team of 3. This is the...

Software Enterprise Consulting Project Planning

asked May 5 '12 at 10:21

Jordan
8 points

Startup background I'm close to launching my first micropreneur-esque SaaS app (within 2-3 weeks). I've been building this app on the side over the past year or so while working my day job. Day...

Day Job

asked May 5 '12 at 01:59

Sarumont
111 points

Are there any good websites/blogs which discusses about Complex website architecture designs when it comes to usability and Design. For example if some one wants to build websites like Amazon,...

Website Web Design Web Dev

asked May 4 '12 at 18:51

Krishna Reddy
16 points

If a patent contains an ingredient in a product ,along with many other ingredients ,stated to be used for one application,would I get a patent on one of the ingredients for a use not stated and un...

Patent

asked May 4 '12 at 17:28

Peter
6 points

This might be a really dumb question but I've heard of a few cases where VC's have purchased into a business and it made me wonder. Facebook's purchase of Instagram recently made me think to ask on...

Funding Venture Capital

asked May 4 '12 at 11:25

Lloyd
360 points

I have an offer on a table to join this really exciting venture at 50/50 split as a tech co-founder but the original founder insists on issuing me non-voting shares. He worries that he will loose...

Co-Founder Equity

asked May 4 '12 at 08:44

Tech Cofounder
21 points

I am in the process of starting a website to raise funds for school supplies to be donated to local grammar school aged children and want to contact some local business about using them as a drop...

Getting Started Donations Fundraising

asked May 4 '12 at 07:59

Renae
1 point

I am looking to provide rental items online, however it is important that I can take a deposit that will be returned after the usage of the item. I am aware of capture delay although my...

Ecommerce Payments Entrepreneurs

asked May 4 '12 at 02:02

Tom
116 points

After asking about the taxation of fringe benefits for shareholders in an S Corp, it occurred to me that there could be two types of shareholders. Those who are silently collecting whatever profits...

Tax Benefits S Corp

asked May 3 '12 at 23:43

Jeffrey Blake
115 points

I about to venture into a startup that will address two types of users who have a relationship with each other. Let us call one of them X and the other are their users (let us call them Y). My...

Bootstrap

asked May 3 '12 at 23:30

S. Francis
21 points

Wouldn't I be more effective doing a marketing plan first - before working on a business plan? Everybody's working on business plans, and I know they include Market and Marketing information. But...

Marketing Business Plan

asked May 3 '12 at 22:22

Patrick Ny
300 points