Questions

Our startup has a person who holds a very high percentage of the company's common stock. We don't have any money yet, and we've been working for a year. This guy has done an extremely minimal...

Co-Founder Company Shares

asked Jan 27 '12 at 10:16

Pasham
26 points

I'm about to bring on two partners in my LLC. However both have indicated that the "partnership" would be between my company and each of their incorporated entities. Is that normal? What is the...

LLC Partnerships

asked Jan 27 '12 at 09:36

Chris Lively
443 points

I've made a proposal to a prospect and he suggested we have a 'business lunch' and eventually continue afterwords in their office. How should I prepare for it? Any DOes and DONTs? P.S. This is...

Pitch

asked Jan 27 '12 at 06:35

Simpatico
198 points

I am pursuing an opportunity as an outside consultant to an established company, but don't really know how to package my services. Here are a couple of models I have come across: Charge a...

Pricing Marketing IT Consulting Service

asked Jan 27 '12 at 06:33

J.Rightly
106 points

I'm a tech founder of a startup in the very early stage. I'm looking to add a business development, sales, and marketing co-founder. However this guy is looking to invest 2 hours per day while i'm...

Equity

asked Jan 27 '12 at 03:51

Mark
31 points

I've started a freelance web development company. Up to now all my clients have been based in Canada and I have been collecting taxes for the government. I have been contacted by a Pub in the UK,...

Tax International Web Services Exporting

asked Jan 27 '12 at 03:06

Philip K
166 points

We offer a SAAS and I am at the stage where we have a MVP and are looking to validate our assumptions which is that small shop owners will make more revenue by using our system. Our target...

Marketing Small Business MVP Validation

asked Jan 27 '12 at 02:44

User15995
42 points

Possible Duplicate: Beta Testers: What is the best way to find good beta testers? I'm designing and developing a little project overview application. I'd like some people to test it, but so far...

Software Testing Beta

asked Jan 27 '12 at 02:31

Kslstn
1 point

I've been doing choosing of an appropriate domain name for my upcoming startup and I've identified a bunch of potentially usable names. They are available on COM. But! They are rather generalistic...

Trademark Domain

asked Jan 26 '12 at 21:41

Fobo
6 points

I'm running a site where users generate their data and store it. I do not share it or plan to share it ever with 3rd party. How do you specify that the site is not going to share information with...

Legal Privacy Terms And Conditions

asked Jan 26 '12 at 13:43

Dev.E.Loper
113 points

I've got a consulting business built around my personal skills and offerings. I've picked up a few sales people to help increase work volume (currently part-time outside of a day-job). The company...

Sales Business Model Consulting Revenue Growth

asked Jan 26 '12 at 07:23

Patrickgamer
234 points

If an employer has employees sign an agreement forbidding working for a competitor for x period (say 1 year) after termination, can it be enforced (in Texas)?

Legal

asked Jan 26 '12 at 04:32

Bfox
16 points

Some people I know came up with a idea of a startup. They will provide also the seed investment (50k) and contacts for future investment rounds. I will be in charge of the start up of the company...

Founder Equity Compensation Seed Funding CEO

asked Jan 26 '12 at 04:28

Thomas
6 points

An old employer of mine has approached me to do some freelance work to which I have said I am interested. I explained that since leaving I have never done any freelance work so I would have to set...

Payments Contractor

asked Jan 26 '12 at 02:46

Mike
6 points

I have a few web services on my website. They are used by major financial institutions. They are like little calculators specific to some complex math only required in finance. I want to move...

Ideas Business Plan

asked Jan 25 '12 at 22:20

Aldo
13 points

I'm nearing completion of my website. I need advice on how i would go about server costs? I haven't got the type of money to pay for a good dedicated/VPS server for high traffic. Should i go about...

Website Business

asked Jan 25 '12 at 17:17

User892134
101 points

What are the best incorporation (and related) document resources? Are the YCombinator incorporation docs available? There are a number of 'model' or 'open source' documents for a startup's first...

Funding Incorporation Legal Documents Ycombinator

asked Jan 25 '12 at 15:50

Chris Busselle
36 points

I'm working to launch my product in the near future and some guys are asking if there will be a "free" version. I've read some opinions that discourage the freemium model because canibalizes sales...

Pricing Marketing Software Freemium

asked Jan 25 '12 at 14:00

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

I am running a startup and I reached out to an industry publication that I read while I was working for my last employer (for advertising our product with them). I am interested in their email...

Marketing Advertising Email Email Marketing

asked Jan 25 '12 at 13:11

Ktr
53 points

So let's take this as a scenario: I have shares in a company in Australia, The company decided to get into the US and do the same service but it'll target US customers. Will the new company have...

Shares Stocks

asked Jan 25 '12 at 13:00

Ryan
139 points