Questions

We're a small healthcare-related services company with one sales rep, whom I manage. We are trying out the Salesforce.com contact manager and it seems to do the job for what we need. We use Google...

Saas CRM Online Hosted

asked Apr 22 '11 at 00:31

Tcolling
433 points

I worked for few government organizations on contractual basis for four years. They were my premium customers for custom software applications. After freelancing for these many years and learning...

Funding India Venture Capital

asked Apr 21 '11 at 23:33

Rpk
208 points

Though i'm actually a computer science phd student, i have always been interested in marketing and businesses. This world fascinates me and i hope i will manage to do something in the field. There...

Business

asked Apr 21 '11 at 18:36

Spyros P
132 points

Looking for suggestions on improving the rank/search results positioning for my website. My business is B2B. My target audience are very internet/computer savvy individuals... mostly software...

Marketing SEO

asked Apr 21 '11 at 12:06

Igorek
886 points

I few months back I was talking to friend who works in M&A for a big software company and he was telling me that a large deal just got killed because they realized that part of the code was...

Open Source

asked Apr 21 '11 at 11:05

Antony P.
714 points

I have a friend who makes very good banana bread. She tried to sell it on the street and got sold out of a huge batch within a very short time. She wants to stay local within her city, but isn't...

Strategy Branding Domain

asked Apr 21 '11 at 08:14

Genadinik
1,821 points

What are the advantages and disadvantages of dividing equity 49/51 vs 50/50 between partners? Edit: 51/49 feels wrong, but there may be some startup cases where it is good if you are the majority...

Equity Partnerships

asked Apr 21 '11 at 07:56

Pate
306 points

I know that a particular product will be useful to a whole group of people. However, I am uncertain if once the product is made, the people will purchase the product. Prior to making the product,...

Ideas

asked Apr 21 '11 at 06:16

Picakhu
106 points

We mainly use PayPal as our payment processor on our website. Of late we're seeing that PayPal is having issues with corporate credit cards. Moreover, going forward, PayPal won't accept payments...

Ideas Payments

asked Apr 21 '11 at 05:17

Ankur Jain
566 points

Currently I'm working on a project together with 1 co-founder and soon we are going to incorporate a company. We agreed that I get 70% shares and he gets 30% . The reason is because I started the...

Incorporation Investment Investors Partnerships Shares

asked Apr 20 '11 at 22:08

Paul12
18 points

So, I'm based in the UK and would like to start offering web-design services to my clients. I myself am not a designer (I just don't have the eye for it) though I know there are many talented...

Outsourcing

asked Apr 20 '11 at 21:27

Kj Bweb
13 points

I'm about to launch my own web app. Being in Europe and thinking about pricing I'm wondering if I should charge in EURO or US DOLLAR? I have no concrete numbers, but I expect 70-80% of the...

Pricing

asked Apr 20 '11 at 19:46

Stephanos
116 points

I recently set up an open-source infrastructure for Obix. Obix is a new, object-oriented programming language designed to help people writing more reliable code in less time. More information can...

Recruiting Community Open Source Promotion People

asked Apr 20 '11 at 17:05

Christian Neumanns
11 points

We're using Gmail to field customer support requests. I am looking for a way to track key metrics of how we serve customers: average response time, %% of inquiries left unanswered, customer...

Customer Support Metrics Email Google Apps

asked Apr 20 '11 at 17:03

Maxua
155 points

I wish to start a small business and while at first the goal will be to strengthen a community it would be nice to possible make money in the end. A group of us has gotten together to work on this...

LLC Non Profit Tax Tax Structure

asked Apr 20 '11 at 16:36

Ak Geek
11 points

I own a web hosting company and maintain my own servers in a colocation facility. I do not resell the hosting services of another company. My new startup company is a SaaS provider that I'm hosting...

Legal Saas Hosting

asked Apr 20 '11 at 12:57

Tauren
240 points

I am creating a medical device startup and I have some issues determining how to split up the various roles and responsibilities of founders, among other problems. My brother, a friend/partner, and...

Co-Founder Equity Business Corporate Structure

asked Apr 20 '11 at 06:32

Jry223
11 points

When you are starting a new company, its often hard or impossible pay everyone for services they can provide. Some people may be willing to work with\help you build your dream in exchange for...

Equity Free

asked Apr 20 '11 at 03:48

Bryan Migliorisi
449 points

I am extremely confused as to whether I am on the right track with the way I planned things to be. I wanted to start my own company in IT. I did a special degree in Geology and with effort I...

Business

asked Apr 20 '11 at 02:45

Pathum Mudannayake
178 points

I have an idea for a company I want to start (based around a product initally). How can I find out if a similar product already exists?

Ideas

asked Apr 19 '11 at 23:09

Zubair
138 points