Questions

We are about to launch a Website Builder product(Allows anyone to create a website with a few clicks and without any programming or Photoshop knowledge). Regarding Affiliate Marketing - what do...

Affiliate

asked May 11 '11 at 17:19

Eytan Levit
6 points

I'm putting together a webcomic and am considering taking down the construction page in the next couple of days and going live (the site is finished). I just have a few questions regarding a...

Launch Website

asked May 11 '11 at 16:32

Harold
26 points

I am currently working at a company in a technical cum slightly managerial position and strongly thinking about starting a technology based company (this can happen in the next one or two years to...

Finance Business Plan International

asked May 11 '11 at 15:38

Pathum Mudannayake
178 points

For many entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs the potential positive impact on the world is as important are providing a healthy financial return for the investors. Often the definition of...

Social Entrepreneur

asked May 11 '11 at 13:47

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I am building a startup. Right now I am thinking of having a company that is an umbrella around the different attempts I make. Which would you suggest? Should I incorporate or do an LLC? What are...

LLC Incorporation

asked May 11 '11 at 09:44

Chromedude
202 points

Now after the internet has taken over a substantial part of shopping, I am interested to know the current trends in the traditional retailing industry. How is it adapting to compete with mature...

Market Trends Market Analysis Shopping

asked May 11 '11 at 07:46

David
1,567 points

Is it better to pay more up front for a custom coded website, or go with open source CMS, which is a much more economical alternative. Specifically for this bootstrapped micro startup, there is one...

Bootstrapped Website Micro Startup

asked May 11 '11 at 03:15

Sam
509 points

I learnt today that if an author assigns copyright of his book to a publisher for a fee, the net revenue is taxed as income, not as capital gains. On the other hand, one would normally think...

UK Tax Copyright Intellectual Property Capital Gains

asked May 11 '11 at 02:15

Paperjam
394 points

I'm not sure if this forum is an appropriate place for this question but here goes. I work in a building that isn't close to any restaurants even though it's in a downtown-ish area. There's just...

Business

asked May 11 '11 at 02:07

Jason Swett
555 points

Reducing the barriers to using a website is often a key goal for an eCommerce business. One way of reducing the barrier to the whole 'register/sign up' process and the subsequent 'logging in with...

B2B Website Registration

asked May 11 '11 at 01:14

Edralph
2,333 points

Assume we have a limited advertisement budget that we are currently spreading it across 30 countries. Is it valid to think that by putting it all on a single country (e.g Italy) there is an...

Advertising Budget Viral

asked May 10 '11 at 21:23

Cherouvim
219 points

I am on the verge of quitting my day job to work full time on a startup, solo initially. It seems that I could become eligible for a swathe of UK tax credits. These are pretty lucrative but they...

UK Tax VAT

asked May 10 '11 at 19:53

Paperjam
394 points

i am running a dating website for 3 months now, have about 5000 unique visitors and 115k page views. My website was featured in a nationwide newspaper, really big though, and it is responsible for...

Community Growth Users

asked May 10 '11 at 16:20

Herr K
292 points

I have an internet site. I don't sell anything and the current revenue is from ads. There are other, smaller revenue streams, but lets just focus on ads. Does the concept of a "margin" even apply...

Company

asked May 10 '11 at 13:35

Genadinik
1,821 points

What are the major differences in how to approach a B2C offering and a B2B offering? What I am looking for is the must-haves for each and the must-nots for each. Edit: We market a SaaS service...

Marketing B2B B2C

asked May 10 '11 at 10:33

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

It has been said that a business must grow or die. Many businesses start because someone knows how to do something and they start a company to do it. While expertise in their field is required to...

Strategy

asked May 10 '11 at 10:11

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

I am finally putting the final touches on my business plan and have begun looking for seed capital for my project. In recent weeks I have come upon new data about the startup capital of some of...

Competition Budget

asked May 10 '11 at 07:50

Miguel Buckenmeyer
482 points

When an investor invests an amount in a startup company exchange for equity, how do they protect themselves from being significantly diluted by a larger investor? And is that even an issue?

Beginning Investors Shares

asked May 10 '11 at 07:30

Pate
306 points

We (me and my partner) recently incorporated as a Limited By Shares company (Ltd). Stupidly, when filling out the forms we put down 1m shares with nominal value at £1 thinking these were just...

Incorporation Company Shares

asked May 10 '11 at 06:27

Tom
480 points

I work at a startup in California, USA. I know that whenever I go out to lunch with my CEO, he says he is only allowed to expense the meal if it was "business related," like meeting clients or...

Tax Benefits

asked May 10 '11 at 06:04

Brad
117 points