Questions

As a developer, I produce a high-quality product, I exceed expectations and I deliver on time. However, as a project manager and business analyst, I could use a lot of work. I am not particularly...

Solo Entrepreneur Project Planning

asked May 19 '11 at 22:29

Todofixthis
183 points

After doing some game development in my spare time and not being able to find a decent editor for simple 2D animations and spritesheet manipulation, I decided to knock one together. A year later...

Market Research Product Release

asked May 19 '11 at 22:05

Sam
176 points

I have heard several times that the Sarbanes–Oxley Act had a profound affect upon how business is performed in the US, but no one has ever explained to me what all the fuss is about. Can you? How,...

Regulation

asked May 19 '11 at 21:33

John Berryman
388 points

I've just created a new site which allows users to post content around their local area and any activities. As it has just been launched there is not much in the way of content for those people...

Website Social

asked May 19 '11 at 12:03

Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

I have a two-part question: I need to know how to determine how many membership units should be issued for each member, including a new member.I have an LLC with three members. Each member...

LLC

asked May 19 '11 at 11:58

Renee
11 points

My company is in a niche with over 11 million potential customers, yet we have a little less than 100k customers currently. Given that we currently spend $0.00 in marketing (we focused on...

Marketing Planning Advertising Promotion

asked May 19 '11 at 10:34

John
23 points

Looking to bring on some developers and using sites like Vworker.com. While looking for prices to offer I'd like to get an idea of what is a good price and a poor price for developers in different...

Salary Human Resources Budget

asked May 19 '11 at 06:29

John Bogrand
2,210 points

At the moment, my co-founders and I are working on our startup part-time. We're in the process of figuring out how many shares to allocate to each person. If one of us quits their full-time job to...

Equity Fulltime Shares

asked May 19 '11 at 06:19

A Fake Username
86 points

I was wondering if anybody knows what has to be done in Belgium if I want to sell computer games under the legal age (18). Which means I am to young to start a business legally. Thanks in...

Selling Computers

asked May 19 '11 at 04:37

Simon Verbeke
108 points

I am curious if anyone has had luck pitching their startups to publications like TechCrunch or ReadWriteWeb. Also, what is an effective pitch structure/template/approach?

PR

asked May 19 '11 at 02:01

Genadinik
1,821 points

I expect a large scale software project to come in which must be delivered successfully for us to get more business. I don't have enough in house resources to accomodate this project but I do have...

Sales

asked May 18 '11 at 23:42

Stacey
484 points

I applied for a grant to create a website that will 'save the world'. The grant-giving organization gave me a choice: take the grant which would fund the first two months (hiring a web developer),...

Marketing Legal Website

asked May 18 '11 at 21:10

Lindsay
36 points

I've had the opportunity to work at quite a few startups. One thing I've to be common in them is adhoc way of doing things and ignorance towards processes, best practices and known project...

Project Management Business Process

asked May 18 '11 at 14:57

Hasan Khan
118 points

I have the most experienced and talented people (120 instructors making up 20 MLB teams) for teaching baseball in Minnesota but no one knows because I don't have a building (overhead). How do I get...

Venture Capital Branding

asked May 18 '11 at 10:24

C J
14 points

Many companies are started by people who dream of one day drinking pina coladas on the beach after exiting their business in some fashion. Of course many fail to deliver on that dream, and some of...

Business Plan Exit Strategy

asked May 18 '11 at 10:12

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

We have a Mac OS X application and we'd like to use AdWords to help people hear about it. The two tests we've done have produced 70%+ of our traffic coming from IE and then Google downgrades our...

Adwords

asked May 18 '11 at 05:28

Dad
166 points

I have a site that I launched yesterday. I've thought of things like DIGGing, Reddit, etc., but I'm not seeing much of a change in my website traffic. I've gotten a few (literally) users to go...

Advertising

asked May 18 '11 at 05:01

Steve Corey
41 points

Is there a better time during the year to launch? Business is in the Food and drink / Restaurant industry, and will be an online service free for customers.

Launch

asked May 18 '11 at 03:25

Sam
509 points

I would like to ask you for your opinion on pros and cons of 2 different business models for a social networking+user advertising start up. For a very vague description and comparison, imagine...

Web

asked May 18 '11 at 02:23

New Web Start Up
21 points

There is Company X online that provides a service for its visitors - and though they currently have the monopoly and have for the past 10 years, the quality of their service is not so great and...

Launch Customers Competition Market Analysis

asked May 18 '11 at 01:59

Sam
509 points