Questions

I am starting a for-profit online donation platform. My company currently is an LLC and I have gotten conflicting reports on whether or not I need to convert to a 501(c)(3) so that the passthrough...

LLC Non Profit Platforms Donations

asked Jun 12 '11 at 11:40

Tesmar
106 points

As an example, let's take Yelp. Yelp has carved out a serious niche for itself in the user review market. What if you thought you could do it better? How would you make traction in that market?...

Competition Market Opportunity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:58

Richard Des Londe
206 points

I've been experimenting with certain ways to improve the number of users for my social dating website, and since the daily user count is so low, even the approach for any experiment is almost...

Launch Users User Acquisition

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:11

Herr K
292 points

A company (pre-funding) wants to do a 3 month trial period with me. I received an offer for X shares of stock. How do I determine if I am properly compensated for my efforts? The value I would...

Equity Trial Compensation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 17:41

Daniel
157 points

For my startup (web 2 SaaS) I am looking for a good designer, probably with HTML/JavaScript skills. It seems this is pretty difficult - all good people have jobs. So I am thinking about remote...

Hiring Jobs Design

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:58

Christian
3,590 points

I'm looking into starting a formal business, and need a little help. I currently go to a public university and have a scholarship that is based on the fact that I, personally, don't claim more than...

LLC Tax Corporation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:57

Zakman411
174 points

I have an income and a website idea. I know nothing about programming. I have a friend who is a programmer, comp-sci major, and so to get my idea created into a website I am paying them an hourly...

Partner Employees Salary Shares

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:06

Zach
11 points

Currently the software is in alpha and we're looking for some more users and are not sure where the best place is to drop an invite code or whatever other strategy will help us gather up some...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Saas Beta

asked Jun 11 '11 at 14:33

Nfriend21
31 points

[Disclaimer: This question was also posted on Hacker News] Howdy, Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We want to accelerate development and have talked to...

Co-Founder Hiring Equity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 09:42

Caffeinated
6 points

I apologize in advance if this question has already been asked a thousand times. I did a search and couldn't find anything, nor did the related questions provide any answers to my question. I...

Retail

asked Jun 11 '11 at 09:05

Beachrunnerjoe
319 points

My company recently launched a product and I've been attempting to build up the page rank of the product site by building up inbound links to it. To kill 2 birds with one stone, I've been searching...

Marketing SEO Spam

asked Jun 11 '11 at 05:42

Erebus
121 points

A lot of technology companies, especially non-consumer facing, have a multi-part name. The first part can be almost anything... The last word, or suffix, is a more formulaic noun, common choices...

Naming Domain Name

asked Jun 11 '11 at 03:00

Paperjam
394 points

I was wondering, if a site has lets say 1 million page views per month, how much does that make it worth? Similarly, for signed up users, lets say, a thousand signed up users - how much does that...

Website Valuation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 01:10

Genadinik
1,821 points

I am an employee who has been granted common stock (note: actual stock, not just options) in the privately held company I work for. To my knowledge, the stock is not traded anywhere and it does not...

Stocks

asked Jun 10 '11 at 13:30

Stock Owner
31 points

I've been working on a bootstrapped startup for about 2 years now. I've been working on it solo to this point, but I feel I'm starting to run out of gas. I need fresh ideas, money and assistance in...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Partnerships

asked Jun 10 '11 at 11:02

Sterling Nichols
148 points

I have a few subscription based services which have grown consistently though affiliates and resellers. I want to get a strong sales force going. Do you have any books, training, blogs, etc. that...

Sales Books

asked Jun 10 '11 at 11:01

Rafferty Pendery
466 points

We recently launched an online quoting SaaS and are targeting some fairly competitive keywords (e.g. quoting software or quoting system). Because the domain is relatively new (~6 months), I know it...

Marketing Bootstrapped Inbound Marketing SEO

asked Jun 10 '11 at 08:35

Mike
252 points

The software and Internet startup companies I've worked for required 60, 80, or more hours a week of their employees (not just founders), for extended periods of time, up to a year. Are there...

Work Life Success Employees Founders Failure

asked Jun 10 '11 at 08:19

Meva
26 points

I'm looking for a a recommendation for a startup-friendly PR firm. Anyone have a firm they'd recommend? I see this question but there aren't any recent answers to the question. Anyone have any new...

Marketing Recommendations PR

asked Jun 10 '11 at 07:21

Joseph Fung
1,542 points

I an a technical guy, plans to goes full time for a startup to build a social network site, with a friend who is a business guy. Initially, he will work for part-time until our startup is enough to...

Equity Distribution Stock Options

asked Jun 10 '11 at 01:42

Jack
26 points