Questions

Say one person comes up with the idea for a startup, and spends a significant amount of time over 2 years developing the business plan. That person then asks others to join the startup as...

Equity Business Plan Shares

asked Jun 23 '11 at 00:32

A Fake Username
86 points

What specific tactics do you use to test a feature set that's planned for an upgrade of a current product? Focus group Existing user survey Interviews What else? Tx!

Marketing Products Product Management

asked Jun 23 '11 at 00:10

Chris
4,214 points

I ask because I am planning a Start up where I intend to charge users to use my website. They can buy credit and gamble with each other. I understand players will not be exchanging money; so its...

Legal Business Model Business

asked Jun 22 '11 at 14:42

Ritwik
6 points

I am currently working for a start-up and our first product has been in development for several months. We have reached a fork in the road and I would like to ask the OnStartups community for some...

Focus Strategy Development Product Management Market Research

asked Jun 22 '11 at 13:55

Travis Truett
127 points

When you're working on a startup it sometimes feels like there are hundreds of things to do. What techniques have you tried to organizing your todo items/ideas/tasks that worked? What did you try...

Organization

asked Jun 22 '11 at 11:09

Alex Cook
641 points

I am in some what a unique situation. I work for a friend owned software services company which has only 1 share holder - Founder & CEO. I joined them to execute on a product idea that the...

Co-Founder Equity Seed Funding CEO

asked Jun 22 '11 at 09:22

Bsk
6 points

I'm developing a web application. It's months away from completion but I would like to build a landing page to show to potential customers to explain things and gauge their interest--basically...

Marketing Ab Testing Web Services Web App

asked Jun 22 '11 at 07:56

Chris W.
116 points

I have a small startup and what I want to push right now means my potential clients are big corps. If I identify the president/CEO/senior VP of the department I'm interested in, they could be...

Marketing Networking

asked Jun 22 '11 at 06:46

John
173 points

One bad client is all that's needed to destroy the reputation (and possibly livelihoods) of any growing consultancy or service business. It is easy for clients to spread lies, file complaints...

Legal Ethics Reputation Client

asked Jun 22 '11 at 02:05

Mqv
52 points

I want to start a property portal but I dont have huge ad budget to get traffic for listing then how do I get my first listing on the portal? If people come on my property portal through ads or...

Business Model Business Plan Business

asked Jun 22 '11 at 00:56

Yuvraj
57 points

What is the average budget for an IT Department in an eCommerce Startup? Asssume they are nearly 2 years old and have solid revenues coming in I'd like to know in terms of % of course. Also how...

IT Budget

asked Jun 22 '11 at 00:13

Cogito Ergo Sum
106 points

For the past few days I have been trying and failing to get onto Microsoft's BizSpark program. I left my day job and incorporated last week and am now setting up my development machines. I really...

UK Bizspark

asked Jun 21 '11 at 22:09

Paperjam
394 points

I'm starting up my business. I'll be offering services to website owners, such as: finding broken links, making 3D covers for ebooks & DVDs from images they provide, maintaining their website,...

Customers Web Services Contact

asked Jun 21 '11 at 18:51

User2534
154 points

(Incoming wall of text) I'm a 27-year-old recent college (under)graduate (computer science) who's currently unemployed and having a heck of a time finding a job. I have what I believe is a decent...

Funding Website

asked Jun 21 '11 at 11:50

M Harrison
63 points

I'm getting to ready to launch a business-to-business service that will charge a $5,000 fee per service rendered. I would like to only accept credit cards, but I'm not sure if most customers are...

Credit Cards

asked Jun 21 '11 at 10:34

S Startup
31 points

We have a company with 5 co-founders and are having some serious issues with work process. We started with 3 cofounders and just assumed we'd do an equal equity split without thinking it through....

Equity

asked Jun 21 '11 at 04:55

Marco
6 points

A friend and I formed an Oregon LLC in 2008 for an online business. Now we're up and running and both working on it full-time. Now we've both moved to Texas and want to re-form as a Texas company...

LLC Tax Founders Vesting

asked Jun 21 '11 at 03:39

Sean
134 points

There is a lot's of start-ups that not protected by a patent like tumblr/twitter/evernote and more... How do they start getting massive users without letting copycats and Competitor disturbing...

Marketing Technology Competition Seed Funding

asked Jun 21 '11 at 01:47

Frank Parsons
6 points

I'm getting ready to "relaunch" my site. The site currently sells royalty-free Silverlight controls by independent developers (sort of an iStockPhoto business model). I'm working on a massive...

Marketing Promotion

asked Jun 21 '11 at 00:55

Steve Wortham
287 points

Ok I was thinking of hiring app developer (once i know what I want to develop) and sell apps for the ipad/iphone. But all im reading is about how the market is saturated and how no developers are...

Marketing Iphone

asked Jun 21 '11 at 00:54

I Scotts
152 points