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My Royalty Free Music business model is designed to have zero expenses other than keeping my domain name up every year. The 'fuel' to my company is musicians' old recordings which I create new...

Funding Investors Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:40

Gregarious
88 points

I'm building a startup music service that uses recordings of real musicians and creates completely new music out of it. Musicians that submit acceptable recordings that are sitting on a hard drive...

Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:12

Gregarious
88 points

I have a startup music business where I can produce, but am not limited to, an entire 18-piece big-band ala Hoyt Curtin ("The Jetsons", "Flintstones" etc.) overnight without any recording expenses...

Legal Intellectual Property NDA Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:04

Gregarious
88 points

I've decided to ask this question here, as there is no better StackExchange site to ask and it's also not that much off-topic for OnStartups. I'm from Europe and I signed (by email) IT service...

Contract Legal

asked Jun 7 '11 at 09:12

Tomasz Zielinski
113 points

I'm a newbie building a startup using my unique skill set to re-create the sound of professional musical ensembles without synthesizers or MIDI. In the industry, this is unprecedented and will save...

Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 07:30

Gregarious
88 points

I'm at a fairly established startup, and we need our logo and look/feel overhauled. I'm thinking about using a crowdsourced design site, along the lines of 99designs. Lots of similar sites now...

Marketing Website Branding Web Design Crowdsourcing

asked Jun 7 '11 at 03:49

Sarah
21 points

I am a full time student, studying in the UK with UK address. I would like to do a one time job for a company based in the USA. It will last about one month, and is mostly about creating a video...

UK Legal Business

asked Jun 7 '11 at 00:25

Zsero
106 points

I'm generally interested in how economy works, because i think it closely relates to businesses. I would like to ask something about stocks. Imagine that there is a company with 100 stocks. Now,...

Investors Stock Options Economics

asked Jun 6 '11 at 17:51

Spyros P
132 points

How do we go about raising seed money for our startup that is at this point nothing much but an idea (working towards a prototype), team (2 technical persons with over 10 years experience in...

Venture Capital Seed Funding Prototype

asked Jun 6 '11 at 10:38

Xoail
365 points

We are a 3 month old, 3 part time team startup, working on a SaaS based web product. Can someone tell us how to do a pre-valuation of this startup? Well, just to add, our Alpha product is ready...

Valuation

asked Jun 6 '11 at 05:39

Essyum
6 points

I am building an application in my spare time, and I want to get my plan right from the start. I think Freemium would not work for me given several constraints I have. The approach I want to use is...

Marketing Software Trial

asked Jun 6 '11 at 03:37

Andrea Raimondi
131 points

I recently learned of a U.S. software start-up claiming to have a team of professional developers in-house, but in-fact has all of its work done through two offshore companies (one in Eastern...

Legal Offshore Fraud

asked Jun 6 '11 at 02:51

Mqv
52 points

I have read the FAQ and hope that I have added enough detail to my question that it will not be considered to vague or open. I have a great idea for a software product that I think could make a...

Ideas Planning Investment

asked Jun 6 '11 at 00:06

Sonny Ordell
197 points

My firm is offering me 5% of the company. The structure they laid out for buyback of this equity seems odd to me. What are your thoughts? "The purchase price of equity shall be equal to 5X net...

Equity

asked Jun 5 '11 at 16:35

Anthony
26 points

We are thinking to have an online channel for our videos. Which site would you recommend for this? What I have in mind right now : YouTube Vimeo Brightcove Ooyala Really appreciate if you can...

Marketing Video

asked Jun 5 '11 at 14:54

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I have recently launched my small online business(sole proprietorship). I have no funding and this is something I been working on for the last two years on the side at night after work. I am...

Equity Human Resources

asked Jun 5 '11 at 11:07

User11033
21 points

I've heard that many entrepreneurs golf with their clients. What is the purpose of these golf outings? Is it important for an entrepreneur to know how to golf? Are there any common alternatives?

Clients

asked Jun 5 '11 at 08:49

M. Dudley
138 points

I have an idea of a social network site. I think that technically I can make this idea as a facebook application, but commercially speaking, what are the disadvantages and the advantages of doing...

Facebook Social Network

asked Jun 5 '11 at 07:07

Daniel
24 points

OK I was reading this post here Equity distribution amongst startup co-founders And I was thinking ok once the equity has been discussed and agreed upon, who is the leader,Is it the guy with the...

Co-Founder Decision

asked Jun 5 '11 at 06:45

I Scotts
152 points

What types of things do I need to consider if I get approached from a venture fund overseas? I had an early-stage venture fund from Germany contact me looking to learn more about our startup and...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Overseas Seed

asked Jun 5 '11 at 05:46

Nick
1,171 points