Questions

Why are services like Heroku so popular when all they really do is set up AWS servers (which is fairly easy) and significantly markup the price? You could easily setup the servers yourself and pay...

Hosting Server Paas Amazon Aws

asked May 27 '14 at 13:43

George Hughes
9 points

We made a hiring mistake and need to terminate an employee. It's one of the hardest things I've come across as this will be a first. What the best way to gently let go of someone who isn't the...

Termination Employees Founders Human Resources Startup

asked May 25 '14 at 20:43

Dorothy Taylor
16 points

I have a blog that I want to monetize by offering relevant products for purchase to the readers. I've tried affiliate programs but the merchants keep most of the profits -- I'd like to cut out both...

Products Ecommerce Selling Dropshipping Inventory

asked May 25 '14 at 16:58

Richard Perez
7 points

What does a full sales cycle look like when selling a SaaS solution to enterprise clients?Here is what I think is how it works: Try to find a decision maker at the company. Try to contact that...

Sales Strategy Enterprise Saas Selling

asked May 22 '14 at 18:28

Sheryl Chung
4 points

Is there a way to pay employees' salary with a credit card? It's not because our startup is in trouble or anything. I figured this would be a great way to earn points on the card, which can then be...

Finance Credit Cards Employees Salary

asked May 22 '14 at 16:55

Thomas Evans
17 points

Assuming a startup raised a round smaller than $500K, what should the founder's salary be? The startup is located in San Francisco, so the cost of living is pretty high. Would angel investors be...

Salary Founders Investors Angel Investors Startups

asked May 22 '14 at 12:57

Sylvia Rubio
12 points

I have a SaaS application I have made a 6 months ago. A month ago, I decided to shut it off and upgrade it. I have shut the SaaS down so that I may do another launch as the first version was very...

Pricing Marketing Saas MVP

asked May 21 '14 at 16:50

Jo K
11 points

Lets say you are bootstrapping your startup and generating a little revenue. Should you use that revenue to first pay yourself a salary or should all of the profits be re-invested back to fuel growth?

Bootstrapped Salary Revenue Growth Startups

asked May 21 '14 at 16:42

David Thornhill
17 points

We are a small startup of 12 people. Offering free lunches to employees is a perk that everyone enjoys, but has become an annoyance from the logistics standpoint. Everyone usually have different...

Employees Startups Perks Logistics

asked May 20 '14 at 17:13

William Pitts
14 points

During the first few weeks of launching, should you give your product away for free to get people to use it and possibly spread the word about it?Is that a good marketing tactic? It's a strategy...

Marketing Products Free Early Adopters Startups

asked May 20 '14 at 13:21

Cynthia Wilson
12 points

I run a small mobile app consulting shop and filling the pipeline has become very hard. Even though the media talks about a shortage of good app developers and a high demand, I'm having a tough...

Sales Consulting Email Clients Email Marketing

asked May 19 '14 at 20:26

Jonathan Pulley
11 points

Hi, I have copyright of search function that has capability uniquely there is nothing like this before. Nearest technology that uniquely capable to decide how to focus on specific part of...

Auto Focus Searching

asked May 17 '14 at 20:31

Seremonia
-19 points

Would it be a red flag for investors if we (2 co-founders) have our entire team comprised of part time interns instead of full time employees? We are looking for a sizable seed round (between $1m...

Hiring Part Time Interns Employees Investors

asked May 16 '14 at 17:11

Karen Seals
4 points

What's the difference between GPs and LPs at VC firms? Is one better to try to approach than the other when trying to raise money from their firm?

Partner Venture Capital Money

asked May 16 '14 at 13:12

Terri Hale
2 points

What are the some technical tools and software that you use, which if they didn't exist, would put a sizable dent in your productivity?

Software CTO Technology Tools Technical

asked May 15 '14 at 15:11

Margaret Roberson
6 points

We are a bootstrapped company of three. Our primary competitor is interested in acquiring us (acqui-hire). How do we place a value on our startup? Since we don't have any revenues or a huge user...

Bootstrapped Company Acquisition Valuation Acqui Hire

asked May 15 '14 at 10:40

Angela Williams
7 points

Does numbers of users / visitors trump everything else including a monetization plan? Take funny pictures as an example, those type of sites can easily garner 100K+ visitors a month quickly. But...

Monetization Money Visitors

asked May 14 '14 at 15:40

Jeffrey Lashbrook
12 points

What tools and strategies do you recommend for 100% remote teams to collaborate? Our team of 6 is spread across the globe. Also, how can you create a company culture in such a case?

Culture Strategy Tools Team Remote

asked May 14 '14 at 14:43

Patty Balderas
14 points

If a startup were to get some questionable press in the media, would it still be considered a good marketing strategy? Granted that negative press might tarnish a large company's brand. But...

Marketing Press Release Publicity Media Public Relations

asked May 14 '14 at 12:43

Thomas Becker
7 points

Apart from ticket sales, what are all the possible ways one could monetize a low budget film / documentary? Options for indie film-makers are limited because there isn't a large production house...

Sales Monetization Budget Videos Film

asked May 13 '14 at 20:43

Armando Ridinger
2 points