Questions

We're sitting with a situation where we have been given two different offers for seed investment. The first is more than double the amount of the other, but from someone not in the tech industry,...

Funding Seed Funding

asked Dec 6 '11 at 22:20

Hss
157 points

When would you know, as a startupper, that your company needs to hire an in-house secretary to offload some of the non-mission critical work? How do you manage delegating tasks vs. making sure that...

Hiring

asked Dec 6 '11 at 20:19

Dan Dascalescu
168 points

I am an 18-year old individual, in my first year of university. At the beginning of the university year, I had an idea for a website that I followed up on and have, at this point, created a product...

Getting Started Co-Founder Startup Costs Web Services

asked Dec 6 '11 at 17:55

Aventuris
28 points

I've heard that start-ups often write proforma budgets using a rule of thumb for figuring fixed costs (rent, utilities, fringe benefits, etc.) in other words costs that scale with headcount. The...

Cost Salary

asked Dec 6 '11 at 13:13

Bruce
21 points

Ok, I want to know your opinions on my situation. Ideally I'd like examples and outcomes.. I have company registered as IBATT and domain name was also available (spent tons of time finding this...

Trademark

asked Dec 6 '11 at 10:28

Katit
276 points

I'm the co-founder of a two-person startup, but I'm having a hard time coming up with an accurate description of my job for things like LinkedIn and business cards. I handle all technical aspects...

Titles

asked Dec 6 '11 at 09:52

Bill
198 points

I run a small tech company providing custom web development (in Ontario, Canada), and I have a few clients. However, as I am still a student in university, I have co-op positions that I take every...

Contract Day Job Legal Intellectual Property

asked Dec 6 '11 at 08:50

Super Tron
108 points

I'm currently in the process of building a business of my own based on selling an enterprise software. My product can be seen as a general purpose enterprise tool but I could also make it specific...

Marketing Market

asked Dec 6 '11 at 08:40

Andreea Barroca
11 points

I'm making a software for a very small and specific market. Worldwide, the numbers seem good. That is, there is a possibility for business. Nevertheless, I wanted to post my procedure. The question...

Market Analysis Market Research

asked Dec 6 '11 at 07:35

Jbcolmenares
117 points

We are selling specialized accounting software for real estate management companies. As you would guess, nobody changes accounting software every month, so our sales cycle is 1-2 years and we are...

Sales

asked Dec 6 '11 at 02:10

Tambet
215 points

What would you recommend? What does the data says? I am selling online education content and videos through smartphone apps and have to pick one payment collection model. I have three choices as...

Mobile Payments

asked Dec 5 '11 at 21:16

Finance Mentor
688 points

All, A non-coder friend of mine based in India is considering developing a portal for his startup. His is a web-based idea and the portal will be his source of revenues. Since he can't code,...

Strategy Outsourcing Web Services Web Dev

asked Dec 5 '11 at 16:47

Rokstr Dli
36 points

I am trying to start up a two person company for App Development. However I want to make this "professional". I don't know if I'm supposed to register my company or how to even start. Am I an LLC...

Company Small Business

asked Dec 5 '11 at 16:41

E Gamer Hdk
28 points

I'm part of a political website which publish analyses, news and interviews on a regular basis. It's been almost a year since our foundation, and even though our visitor count raises we still...

Strategy Growth

asked Dec 5 '11 at 13:07

Elran
9 points

My wife has an offer from a company in NYC and the contract says specifically that she would be an independent consultant for a 3 month trial period, and not an employee of the company during that...

Contract Consulting Non Compete

asked Dec 5 '11 at 12:36

Nick Larsen
128 points

I am on H1B. I love technology and work on small idea while having time during weekends. I want to shape my idea and setup a startup but don't want to monetize it. Does it still call business as I...

Ideas

asked Dec 5 '11 at 12:28

Dharmesh
11 points

I am on H1 b visa and my employer posted the perm ad for EB2 green card now. I plan to buy an existing business in my area of expertise, and has 1Million loan approved from the bank.I plan to 1....

Startupvisa

asked Dec 5 '11 at 08:28

Sat
23 points

We are a small software based start up in NJ, we recently got a couple of projects from Canada and we're loving them. We came across this guy in Canada, he is very talented and we think he will...

Hiring LLC Legal Canada USA

asked Dec 5 '11 at 08:02

Varchar1
33 points

I'm taking part in a startup where I'll be developing and maintaining the web site and my two other partners are handling the business aspects. I was brought into the startup at a later point, so...

Equity

asked Dec 5 '11 at 04:18

Brian Robinson
16 points

I guess what I meant to say is; Has there ever been a startup that started small then became successful on its own, instead of having a large financial backup beforehand? If so, may I ask for a...

Getting Started Success Angel Website Investors

asked Dec 4 '11 at 23:32

Propeller
134 points