Questions

Are there in the UK any particular regulations regarding sending business offers/requests by e-mail? I was unable to find any, but for example in my home country, Poland a company can send an...

UK Spam Email Marketing

asked Mar 13 '12 at 04:21

Lukeshek
452 points

My pre-seed technology startup has developed unique IP which needs protection. The industry we're targeting is run by giants (with tons of IP), so the IP story will play a key-role on the startup....

Advisors Software Legal Intellectual Property

asked Mar 13 '12 at 01:49

Ellery Familia
16 points

How is it possible to get the data from the banks? Did they go and talk to each bank and convinced the bank to open a API for them? Or do banks have this API already that they are using and you can...

API Bank Account

asked Mar 13 '12 at 01:20

Ryan
147 points

There's a truism I often hear - claiming that the less complicated the signup process for a web-service, the higher the conversion rate (as a rough measure of complexity, count mouse clicks to...

Marketing Conversion User Acquisition

asked Mar 13 '12 at 00:52

Blueberryfields
426 points

The situation is this. I am a software developer that, in his free time, has developed a software library for a specific purpose. I use it to write custom applications that I sell or sell directly...

Software Equity Partnerships

asked Mar 12 '12 at 22:11

Lukeluke
8 points

Web startups with the theme of a "community" as in let's say a Match.com, a roommate finding service or even this site for that matter....my question is how do they gain their initial users? I am...

Launch Website Community Memberships

asked Mar 12 '12 at 13:32

M Ant29 M Ant29
6 points

I will be offering services virtually through my online business. What options are there for accepting payment electronically? There is the obvious one PayPal, but are there any others worth...

Payments Online

asked Mar 12 '12 at 12:32

User16817
63 points

I am going to start an online business and would like to know what all the options are out there. I have found sites/services such as yousendit.com. What are other methods/sites that I should...

Software Business Documentation

asked Mar 12 '12 at 12:13

User16817
63 points

A website from a competitor is using images we own the copyright to, and is asserting on their site that they own the copyright. Is there a way to create a neutral record of their...

Copyright

asked Mar 12 '12 at 08:25

Ashton M.
83 points

I have 500 paying customers and 7000 free users grossing about $7k a month and growing fast. I'm tied down at least for several hours a day to handle daily maintenance and answering technical...

Hiring

asked Mar 12 '12 at 03:21

User106377
96 points

I run a company that sells online language-learning applications. I thought that I could also sell e-books. My question is - do I in the UK have to register for ISBN or ISSN? Is this obligatory, or...

Ebook UK Publishing

asked Mar 12 '12 at 02:16

Lukeshek
452 points

The Lean Start-up methodology seems to make some implicit assumptions (such as about the number of available customers) that, IMHO, do apply well to B2C but not so much to B2B. Can anyone point me...

B2B Lean

asked Mar 11 '12 at 23:23

Michael Hausenblas
118 points

I'm going through a breakup right now with my partner, where he and I started the company as 50/50 owners and then later brought on a third party which was then split 38/38/24 between us. This was...

Co-Founder Legal

asked Mar 11 '12 at 16:53

Devin
36 points

I am a founding investor in a 3 year old startup company and own about 2.5% of the company stock. I was initially involved as a consultant but I haven't been involved for the last 1.5 yrs. The...

Legal Dilution

asked Mar 10 '12 at 14:05

Robert
9 points

I and a friend of mine are working on our own web startup. Right now we are coding the whole thing and would be looking for investors 3-4 months down the line. My question is, can we include our...

Funding Founders Personal Expenses

asked Mar 10 '12 at 09:32

Sandip Dev
33 points

I am a software developer in Canada. 2 years ago, a close friend referred me a business owner who is running Futures trading firm(12+ employees) in Chicago. He need some system to help them manage...

Software Financial Market Research

asked Mar 10 '12 at 09:18

Smm
21 points

A good friend (and former colleague of mine) has put together a general executive summary of a SaaS product idea. She has an excellent presentation, good statement of the need the product meets,...

Marketing Development Business

asked Mar 10 '12 at 08:22

Chris
4,214 points

I am on an H1b Visa working for company A. My Green Card has just been filed. My friend is a Green Card holder working for company B. We want to start a start-up business as co-founders. Can...

Getting Started Visa Startupvisa

asked Mar 10 '12 at 07:48

Raj
24 points

Last year myself and two other partners got together to work on our startup. We got an offer from one of the investors for 40K seed money. We turned down the offer because one of the founder was...

Advisors Ecommerce Technology Selling Business

asked Mar 10 '12 at 07:07

Youngdev
1 point

As a proposed company policy, is it a legal/good idea for employees to just expenses their health care premiums? (By "expense", I mean submit an expense report and get a check that has nothing to...

Insurance Health Insurance Expenses

asked Mar 10 '12 at 05:15

Brad
117 points