Questions

Are offers for interns negotiable? I'm sure this varies from company to company, but most startups don't have a formal intern program like much larger companies and probably far fewer applicants...

Job Offer Interns

asked Apr 1 '12 at 08:21

Bhan
111 points

I am in the early stages of planning an online business which will bring together those who want X, and those who can provide X. Looking at Apple's App store model and Amazon's Publisher model,...

Payments Fees

asked Apr 1 '12 at 04:11

Ted
1 point

I would like to get an insight into which are the most important startups at the moment. can I get a list of all crunchbase companies which received over a specific ammount in funding. I now...

API

asked Mar 31 '12 at 23:06

Ryan
147 points

I've tried feeding the question to Google, and various smaller alternatives of it too, but this seems to be the only page with even tangentially relevant info. My ultimate goal is to sell...

Strategy Traffic Revenue Long Term Strategies

asked Mar 31 '12 at 21:52

Aditya Menon
112 points

around 1 year ago I quit my job . Which was in a metro city and changed my location to a small city(my hometown) to start my business. and according to me for starting a business we should have 3...

Location

asked Mar 31 '12 at 17:38

Michal Fernadis
1 point

We registered an LLC company. The company has not made any money, do I still need to pay the California state tax? PLease let me know.

LLC Tax California

asked Mar 31 '12 at 15:34

Yugoday
1 point

I'm launching a website with some features that are different from my two competitors. One of my competitors established a website in 2008, and one launched in January. A friend told me not to...

Competition Product Launch

asked Mar 31 '12 at 07:11

Afnan Bashir
103 points

Scenario: I'm in the market research stage of my startup (manufacturing), and when researching my competition I noticed one company who is able to provide similar goods to what I plan to sell at a...

Competition Market Research

asked Mar 31 '12 at 04:53

User19897
18 points

Joined together to create a new venture with my ex-boss, we shared a great work dynamics and gelled well together, had complimentary skills & liked the idea and hence I decided to start...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement

asked Mar 31 '12 at 04:30

Roby
11 points

I am currently making a decent amount of income from affiliate marketing (people go to my site, click my link for product X, and if they buy product X, I make a percentage of the sale). I am...

LLC Incorporation Affiliate

asked Mar 30 '12 at 22:20

Martin
1,340 points

When the buyer is paying cash, how and when is sales tax calculated when payment is made with a foreign currency? Guessing it's the same as if the transaction had been paid in currency the tax is...

Foreign Tax Local Currency

asked Mar 30 '12 at 10:43

Blunders .
899 points

I have tried (and been rejected by) a few online payroll solutions. As I am about to start (very soon) working with real employees, I need to find a way to do payroll more or less manually (though...

Getting Started Employees Employers Tax Payroll

asked Mar 30 '12 at 01:53

Michael Trausch
135 points

I am planning a new E-commerce business and will be selling products that are only available from specific manufacturers. How should I approach these manufacturers when I currently have no live...

Getting Started Products Ecommerce Entrepreneurs

asked Mar 29 '12 at 22:48

User20236
133 points

I want to make a website, that is by definition a software, but I don't remind seeing any open source websites. My website like many is supposed to pay itself by ads. Is there a reason why I...

Strategy Website Open Source

asked Mar 29 '12 at 21:53

Michelpm
109 points

I asked a question recently here, discussing options for what to do in my current situation. The other co-founders let me know they no longer think I deserve 20%, and I decided it was the last...

Intellectual Property Licensing

asked Mar 29 '12 at 12:56

Phil
210 points

Recently we received a letter from Dun & Bradstreet asking us to update our profile with them. Based on the information we received, they position themselves akin to Equifax, TransUnion, or...

Credit Rating

asked Mar 29 '12 at 12:05

Karlson
1,779 points

My question is, how should we decide how much money to spend on advertising if the return on this advertising isn't easily measured? For example, spending it on an adwords campaign to acquire new...

Advertising SEO Budget

asked Mar 29 '12 at 08:39

User17220
19 points

As Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites implement https the referral data in analytics tools is becoming less accurate, e.g. HTTPS traffic comes with a blank referer and appears as direct...

Analytics

asked Mar 29 '12 at 07:27

Webbie
2,835 points

I understand I can either go with a combination of: Payment Gateway (ex: Authorize.net) and Subscription management service (Spreedly, Cheddargettar) or go with one solution that provides both...

Payments Subscriptions Micro Startup

asked Mar 29 '12 at 01:27

User3462
345 points

I have a product for monitoring specific areas of content within webpages and notifying the customer when changes occur to this content and what they are. (E.g. monitor the latest stories on a news...

Pricing Payments UK Saas

asked Mar 28 '12 at 23:01

Yojimbo
326 points