Questions

I am creating an ecommerce site that sells products all across the country. I am based in Ohio and so is the company. I want to know what vendor's licenses that I need to acquire to start selling...

Ecommerce License Vendors USA

asked Aug 14 '11 at 06:16

User889115
13 points

Here's the situation: two founders each own 50% of the company angels / VCs / FFFs are about to invest the company will set up a 10% options pool for new hires When a new hire starts, how do...

Tax Stock Options

asked Aug 14 '11 at 02:41

W. Matthew Wilson
104 points

So let's say we have company ACME. ACME has 2 people: John - Founder ( %70 Equity ) Dan - Sales ( %30 Equity ) An investor came up and invested $100k and demands %20 of shares. Question...

Funding Equity

asked Aug 14 '11 at 01:27

Ryan
139 points

I'm considering starting up a website that I could eventually turn into a business. The domain name that seems most obvious is, naturally, taken. I'm considering going with a non-obvious domain...

Domain Name

asked Aug 14 '11 at 00:25

Jcollum
111 points

I run a site which relies on an internal social network for communication between teachers and students. Most updates to the news feed (think Facebook status update) are students posting their...

Community Social Network Compensation

asked Aug 13 '11 at 21:42

Jeff
154 points

Has anyone applied for new business visa (EB-2 amendment) to startup in the valley? Can someone share their experience? What is the procedure? Do you need an American citizen as a...

Visa Startupvisa

asked Aug 13 '11 at 14:55

Quintin
101 points

I have spent 4 years of day and night research on web security and invented the World Wide Web's most secured website. My website is an emailing system with 96.40% hacker safety, zero spam and...

Finance Investors

asked Aug 13 '11 at 12:49

Karz
126 points

I did a back-link check on my competitor and his product was featured on many authoritative websites. I've tried the similar approach by contacting bloggers of a free review copy of my product but...

Marketing

asked Aug 13 '11 at 11:23

Nick
173 points

I've just registered my new startup with the government so now the company is officially incorporated! (yippee!) I would now like to make a loan of about $5,000 to the company with my personal...

Legal Seed Funding Budget Legal Documents Debt

asked Aug 13 '11 at 11:22

Cmo
6 points

When I read about a company getting angel funded, what does it mean? Is it a company selling a % of their company in exchange for seed money? Is there any interest involved?

Funding Angel

asked Aug 13 '11 at 06:38

Codecompleting
106 points

I have technical background and founder of software startup. Now, I started learning the importance of Communications Skills in demos and meeting with prospective clients. Any books or courses...

Sales Technology Recommendations Skill

asked Aug 13 '11 at 06:32

User8226
197 points

I'm a designer / developer. My product is ready for beta, so my focus has to shift towards sales and marketing. My problem is that I just cannot sell. I have an irrational fear of annoying people...

Sales Pitch Selling

asked Aug 13 '11 at 05:35

Finch
211 points

I'm taking my first few steps in attracting a co-founder. With all the questions, comments and advice I've read concerning attracting a co-founder comes down to integrity...thee most important...

Marketing Co-Founder Development Apps Social Network

asked Aug 13 '11 at 05:34

Donald Bailey
27 points

We're trying to develop a t-shirt slogan for out website. We're going for something funny, that doesn't even really have to do with what our site's about, just something to make people laugh and...

Marketing Slogan

asked Aug 13 '11 at 05:33

Slandau
203 points

I'm assuming that some of the job leads come from the big jobs sites (Monster.com, CareerBuilder, Dice, etc). However, do recruiting firms reach out to companies to get on some sort of "vendor...

Recruiting

asked Aug 13 '11 at 01:48

Rqdq
103 points

Currently, I am working as a Web Developer and looking to start an online business in my spare time. My Project is to create an ecommerce website, initially in the UK, for the latest mens and...

Ecommerce Online

asked Aug 13 '11 at 01:47

Awais
23 points

50,000 usd as an investor. They will have no roles in the company as far as management anything else. I will be doing all the leg work. I have the copyrights and trademark for the logo and name of...

Equity

asked Aug 13 '11 at 00:14

Bronson
6 points

I am orginizing an alumni event. We used to have several event but was not so successful. We now have over 100 alumni in the city of Shanghai, half of them are 30-40, half of them are over 50. How...

Marketing

asked Aug 12 '11 at 23:53

User12632
1 point

I'm on my last year of University and about to go to Sweden for 5 months as a part of an exchange program. Unfortunately, my one-man startup is in a critical stage. My startup has about 40 paying...

Getting Started

asked Aug 12 '11 at 16:27

Nick
173 points

Is it legal to target an existing piece of software that is on the market, rewriting it with some improvements and selling it on your own for cheaper? I wouldn't try to do anything that was...

Software Legal

asked Aug 12 '11 at 14:23

Abe Miessler
264 points