Questions

Please can someone advise whether the below terms is a good idea. I working on a start-up and engaged a Lawyer on a deferred fee agreement basis, then he sent the following terms. Before I enter...

Startup Costs

asked Feb 10 '12 at 02:27

Tiger
11 points

Assume that I would like to join an affiliate network, but I can't find any reviews of them and Alexa shows that their domain exist for 2 months. In this case I should probably wait until they gain...

Company Trust

asked Feb 10 '12 at 00:28

Gury Max
23 points

I'm looking for a Customer Relationship Management solution with an easy to use interface. The simplest way to describe what I'm looking for is through a [very rough!] mockup: The idea is that...

Sales Recommendations Website Proposal

asked Feb 9 '12 at 22:38

A T
38 points

I'd like to start a business in the service industry (not a restaurant) with a very low barrier to entry (as such I can't give specifics). Aside from making the best product/service that I can,...

Books Competition

asked Feb 9 '12 at 15:23

Gili
178 points

To avoid the hostile taxation and business code in the U.S. I was thinking of possibly starting a non-US based company (I did a little research a while back on some good places but forgot now)....

Legal Business

asked Feb 9 '12 at 14:18

Uiy
106 points

I've just finished building my first project (or rather, the first I've brought to completion) and am ready to start finding some early adopters. At what point is it important that I register my...

Getting Started Register

asked Feb 9 '12 at 14:11

Steven Surowiec
106 points

Have a client that's asked me if I'd be able to clear tens of thousands of dollars of existing inventory via eBay. While it seems like a stretch, figured I'd look into it for them just to give them...

Ecommerce Payments

asked Feb 9 '12 at 07:43

Blunders .
899 points

I've registered a UK limited company which is going to sell online language courses. Can I claim back in expenses costs of my university degree, if the degree is highly correlated with what my...

UK Tax Ltd

asked Feb 9 '12 at 07:23

Lukeshek
452 points

I am a graduating senior in college studying computer science and machine learning. For the past year, I have been working with two other people on what we think is a pretty fantastic idea,...

Ideas Investors Intellectual Property

asked Feb 9 '12 at 06:57

Jon
137 points

I am considering hiring an intern for this upcoming summer. This intern would be responsible for primarily cold-calling potential customers and trying to drive sales. I don't know much about pure...

Sales Interns

asked Feb 9 '12 at 03:02

Startup Leader
140 points

Being a libertarian, I am completely honest with all my business-transactions, business-offerings and partnerships. From a marketing perspective, would it be beneficial to post my business-plan on...

Marketing Advertising Website Business Plan Ethics

asked Feb 9 '12 at 02:57

A T
38 points

My wife is a surgical nurse and noticed a particular difficulty that surgeons have been having with a specific procedure. She has a beautifully simple idea for a relatively simple device that makes...

Patent Physical Product

asked Feb 9 '12 at 02:34

Maple Shaft
323 points

I'm currently looking for an online payment solution for a business website I'm working on and it turns out it's a bit more complex than I'd first though. I'd like to run at a very small download...

Ecommerce Payments UK Merchant Account

asked Feb 9 '12 at 01:15

Space Beers
168 points

I'm currently working on building an online business based around travel and tourism and eventually I'll need to employ people in the US, located in a specific area. The end goal is that I'll be...

International USA Startupvisa

asked Feb 9 '12 at 01:01

Rick M
118 points

I've been reading up on VAT as it looks like this year we may need to register. We are in the UK, and sell digital goods on our website (one piece of software). As I understand it, if someone...

Tax VAT

asked Feb 8 '12 at 22:33

Tom
480 points

One of the toughest questions that ecommerce businesses face concerns what is at the heart of a business –customer satisfaction. At first glance, anyone doing ecommerce business or having an...

Software Ecommerce Technology

asked Feb 8 '12 at 22:03

Akshy
6 points

One of the most important aspects determining any business is the Return on Investment (ROI) it brings. ROI is something that is based on estimates and projections based on assessments made of...

Ecommerce

asked Feb 8 '12 at 22:00

Akshy
6 points

I'm trying to get the first batch of my product from China to the US. The products are not enough to fill a shipping container, but will be too expensive to do airfreight. How long does Ocean...

Shipping

asked Feb 8 '12 at 20:24

User106377
96 points

Possible Duplicate: what's more important - .com or name? I am in the very early stages of what I hope to be a very profitable company. It is solely an online presence (think Digg, twitter,...

Getting Started Strategy Website

asked Feb 8 '12 at 14:57

Joe
99 points

Approached by 2 founders that are very early days of executing an idea. They have some good .com properties that will be central to brand/idea and had recent offers around $100K, with one outlier...

Funding Co-Founder Equity Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 8 '12 at 12:24

Jjj
21 points