Questions

I'm about to finish writing an e-book that will introduce children to programming. I'm at the point where I'm thinking through the elements of launching a site and marketing the ebook. As I've...

Ebook Website Product Launch

asked Apr 17 '11 at 12:01

Javid Jamae
347 points

I had a problem that required a database solution. I designed the concept of the database and over a 2 year period developed a crude system that worked. In trying to find help with the...

Equity Investment Shares

asked Apr 17 '11 at 11:43

Paul
11 points

For a small startup, I'd like to give options to members of an advisory board and one other person. However, one of my lawyer friends says to wait until after the first round of financing to give...

Stock Options

asked Apr 17 '11 at 04:29

User6492
1,747 points

What is the best way to allocate shares in a startup where half the potential founders are professors at an academic institution? In this situation the professors have developed the technology...

Equity

asked Apr 17 '11 at 03:41

Jay
123 points

I've came across a job post for a software engineer position at a recent startup. The responsibility included pretty much everything that involves programming. I would be an employee, and will not...

Jobs

asked Apr 17 '11 at 01:03

Russell
180 points

I am a web developer. In the last year and a half, I've been working on several ideas, one after the other. I found that as much as I enjoy developing them, in the end, I keep bumping my head...

Marketing Advertising PR

asked Apr 16 '11 at 17:06

Vondip
584 points

We're in the final stages of building an online quoting system that automates quoting and lead generation for B2B companies, via their own website. The overall market for our software is large -...

Marketing Inbound Marketing B2B Saas Target Market

asked Apr 16 '11 at 15:38

Mike
252 points

I started working on a location based game for smartphones this past august (www.tuzo.ca). At the time, competitors included Foursquare, Gowalla, and some smaller players but i felt like I could...

Competition Iphone

asked Apr 16 '11 at 14:40

Janan Rajeevikaran
76 points

I've been thinking about a new idea I want to work on. After searching the USPTO, I found that there are many (hundreds) of patents around what I am wanting to work on, with a slew being very...

Patent Intellectual Property

asked Apr 16 '11 at 12:50

Kirk
227 points

My business partner and I currently work as independent contractors in California writing software and have decided to turn it into a real company. Ownership will be 50/50. All revenue will come...

Getting Started LLC Incorporation Tax Payroll

asked Apr 16 '11 at 08:35

Todd H
196 points

I founded an open-source software project for voting about 8 years ago. It has been mostly a solo project, and it is very successful in that it is by far the most well known and most used software...

Non Profit Open Source

asked Apr 16 '11 at 07:46

Kekito
1,936 points

I believe one of the hardest and most important things that will help a company to be successful is what name you put to that company. The name should be easy to remember and retain on customer's...

Marketing Naming

asked Apr 16 '11 at 07:30

Ramzi Nassar
13 points

what do you need to pay for the board of advisors in a startup? Do the advisors generally ask for equity share ? if so, what would be the average percentage we need to give?

Advisors

asked Apr 16 '11 at 06:06

Sakthy
45 points

I'm in NY. It's been suggested I limit the scope of my VC courting to my native coast. I appreciate the intimacy of the entrepreneur/VC relationship, but if I'm looking for early-stage funding,...

Venture Capital Location

asked Apr 16 '11 at 04:51

Anonymous
16 points

We are a service startup and we work with hotels and restaurants helping them create their online presence like their site/blog or presence and spread in social media platforms. Though some of our...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Marketing Channel

asked Apr 16 '11 at 04:03

Beginning Steps
50 points

I've developed a working prototype; interface and core functionality for a pretty complex system. (I need the prototype for capital-raising purposes and proof-of-concept.) I am NOT a professional...

Software Development Cost

asked Apr 16 '11 at 02:03

Anonymous
16 points

I'm considering looking for a partner for my small startup, I've got an established (very small) base of users on my site, and I think the next step might be to scale up. There are a lot of...

Partnerships

asked Apr 15 '11 at 22:14

Dan Williams
166 points

I'm in the process of launching my start-up and I just finalized my website today. I'm beginning to enter the initial marketing stage of my business but I'm not sure what strategies I should...

Marketing Internet

asked Apr 15 '11 at 14:55

Djs13
30 points

I am building my business plan and am getting close to completion (well, for the first iteration, you know how things change!) Should I be including my resume in my business plan? I have started...

Business Plan

asked Apr 15 '11 at 11:32

Nick
1,171 points

What would yield a higher ROI for Adsense revenue: focusing on getting more unique visitors but having a lower total overall page view count or getting existing visitors to click on more pages...

ROI

asked Apr 15 '11 at 09:53

Jon Kragh
185 points