Questions

I want to create a company in the US and in the process obtain a Investor Visa. Although we want to focus on the US market, our plans are not to move right away there. The main reason is the...

Legal USA

asked Dec 29 '11 at 19:34

Javier Chamizo
6 points

My S-Corp didn't have an options pool when we first set it up. I'm now thinking of creating one (15% of total) to fix that as a talent incentive mechanism. My accountant said that C-Corps have no...

Corporate Structure Stock Options

asked Dec 29 '11 at 17:49

Sid
649 points

Part of starting a startup with a foreign partner is notarizing documents. Some documents are in non English language. The documents need to be notarized in the US. I contacted some notaries and...

Legal Documents

asked Dec 29 '11 at 11:41

Tony Henrich
283 points

I have been on a fruitless search for a technical partner to help me build a web startup. In the meantime, I went ahead and had the MVP built by an offshore company. They've done a pretty good job,...

Outsourcing Negotiation Technical Partnership Agreements

asked Dec 29 '11 at 03:26

Li Zhou
323 points

In an LLC, distributions need not be related to ownership shares. However, our operating agreement states that positive distributions (gains) will be based upon ownership share. Here is my...

Equity

asked Dec 29 '11 at 02:15

User15253
1 point

We have a start-up company in which we offer some educational services. Some of our services are free to use but most of them including : online quizes, consulting and blah blah blah. They can...

Getting Started Strategy

asked Dec 28 '11 at 23:32

??????
101 points

Let's assume a worst-case scenario: you build the MVP. MVP shows the idea is flawed. What's the value you just generated?

MVP

asked Dec 28 '11 at 18:29

User495705
11 points

I was reading "Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist " by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. It's a pretty good book but some parts aren't obvious, like the one below...

Term Sheet

asked Dec 28 '11 at 18:00

Sid
649 points

I have a software as a service model for content management system. What I'm wondering is do I have to have a free version tier in order to sell it? Meaning do I need to have some threshold of...

Saas Freemium

asked Dec 28 '11 at 16:59

Zipstory.Com
120 points

I'm thinking of starting a small web design company and I want to use the word "Apollo" within it. Is this a word I have to ask permission to use from NASA or something? Especially if I call it...

Copyright Trademark Name

asked Dec 28 '11 at 14:28

Michael Rader
118 points

What we are doing at the moment is asking companies how many users they have on site and charging them per user, and then emailing them the extension. The problem is that there is currently...

Piracy Software Licensing

asked Dec 28 '11 at 06:09

Mitya
8 points

As a startup, we have to measure web analytics, funnel metrics, conversions, competition trackers, ROI on campaigns, etc. There's lots to keep track of and a lot of different software (google...

Marketing Analytics Metrics Data

asked Dec 28 '11 at 05:30

Kate G
19 points

I recently contracted with a developer to build a mvp for the business. We were operating on an understanding that we would own the code upon completion of version 1.0. Now, their legal team has...

Copyright Code

asked Dec 28 '11 at 02:22

Eric Littleton
107 points

If a company issues more shares does that reduce the value of the shares already issued? Logically it should. For example if I gave 10% to someone for some work then later double the number of...

Shares

asked Dec 27 '11 at 20:45

Tom Squires
1,047 points

I wonder, how did Quora persuaded their investors as they don't make revenue and even they don't have any revenue model as far as I know. The question is same again for twitter ( I know they sell...

Funding Pitch Business Model Twitter Fundraising

asked Dec 27 '11 at 15:54

To Rr0t
69 points

I have been working on finding an investor for the LTPGA - The Less Than Perfect Golfers Association, Inc. Finding a golf-centric angel who has a sense of humor would be ideal. The basic math is...

Sales Ecommerce Legal Online Retail

asked Dec 27 '11 at 14:39

Bubba G
1 point

I have a site for which I am working to improve user onboarding. What happens now is that when a user does some action that requires him to be logged in, I make a jQuery popup come up telling him...

Website Registration

asked Dec 27 '11 at 01:27

Genadinik
1,821 points

I have been working on my startup for the last few months, where the idea and market research has been done by me, few months before. I have a working demo I developed with freelancers based on my...

Equity

asked Dec 26 '11 at 19:15

Yishay Saban
1 point

Does anybody know of any actual court cases involving California labor code section 2870 which gives a clear precedence as to how judges would rule in such disputes (eg. a programmer makes...

Software Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Dec 26 '11 at 17:26

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

I have started an online business and was considering using a fulfilment service but all the providers seem to be to expensive for my needs. The majority of the products we sell weigh less than 2g...

Recommendations

asked Dec 26 '11 at 08:50

Logi Kal
37 points