Questions

I've been working on a startup plan, and, per the advice I've seen many times, haven't kept it a secret, but rather have talked to a lot of people about it, and gotten some good ideas and...

Ideas

asked Apr 8 '11 at 03:18

Michael C. O'connor
153 points

Yesterday (at my first ever pitch!) I met someone who is an "Angel Investor / Consultant" ( yes I've not heard of that term either). Today I had another meeting with him and he's offered to help me...

Fees

asked Apr 8 '11 at 03:00

User9258
31 points

So I started building this company back in January, completely on my own. I knew there would be a lot of work to be done, so just recently I told a PHP buddy about the site. He got really excited...

Co-Founder Founders

asked Apr 7 '11 at 23:54

Edit This
88 points

For those of us who have incorporated a start-up and for those of us who are in the process: (1) did you hire counsel to handle the initial paperwork (i.e., for the initial founders' stock...

Incorporation Legal

asked Apr 7 '11 at 22:15

User6492
1,747 points

This is more of a legal question but I couldn't find the "Legal" Q&A on StackExchange yet...maybe next week :) I have a web app and mobile app where users sign up and create an account. I also...

Web Apps Web App

asked Apr 7 '11 at 13:39

B Mon
108 points

I just finished a pitch deck (11 slides, with 25 slide appendix), knowing that I'll often be emailing the deck to investors to read. So it's mostly text. I'm pretty sure that if I present at a live...

Pitch Angel Deck

asked Apr 7 '11 at 10:28

Ryan B
86 points

In MVP Approach, the beta version of the product is developed first with just the necessary features. This is to get money and feedback from early adopters.The idea of Minimum Viable Product...

MVP

asked Apr 7 '11 at 07:10

Raj Kumar
11 points

So my friend came to me with a web idea a couple months ago. A few weeks back, I came around to it, and thought it would be awesome. I made the entire site in 3 weeks. It's now able to be tested...

Angel

asked Apr 7 '11 at 05:49

Slandau
203 points

How (what services use) to better organize the protection, payments, sending license keys for shareware Air applications?

Software Payments Licensing

asked Apr 7 '11 at 05:42

Astraport
186 points

I just entered MassChallenge.org and I was wondering if anyone had some experiences to share from last years event? Or any tips or tricks on what to do or what not to do there.

Competition

asked Apr 7 '11 at 00:31

Mat Banik
325 points

I am a US citizen and resident and am opening a business selling online services to US customers. The first thing that came to mind when thinking about business / legal concerns is, Why not open it...

Tax Offshore

asked Apr 6 '11 at 23:42

Orokusaki
118 points

Short question Would you expose your project to a tech event before having a first version publicly available? Details I'm building an app that has a set of specifications for first version,...

Intellectual Property

asked Apr 6 '11 at 17:31

Leadgy
222 points

The obvious answer is "advertising" but I've heard of a lot of decently popular sites that don't make much on advertising. How else do you make money? are they just hoping to get bought out? And...

Charging Finance Monetization

asked Apr 6 '11 at 15:18

Aslyesnow
214 points

What are startups raising millions of dollars for? I know running a website can get costly, but seriously, millions? I just don't get it. And if you say advertising, I still don't get it, because...

Funding Finance Venture Capital

asked Apr 6 '11 at 14:37

Aslyesnow
214 points

I really wonder how do you hire your first employees if you were working on an internet startup alone. I really wonder if there are experienced people which started their startup alone and expand...

Co-Founder Human Resources Team Internet Hire

asked Apr 6 '11 at 14:08

To Rr0t
69 points

Considering people unsubscribe (I think so; I would be happy to see both information regarding that) email lists from Groupon (and other daily city deal sites), do you think paying thousands for...

Business Model Business

asked Apr 6 '11 at 13:47

To Rr0t
69 points

In online advertisements we have Google Analytics, SiteCatalyst, and other web analytics solutions to monitor our campaign’s click-through and conversion rates. How do we keep track those things...

Ecommerce Advertising

asked Apr 6 '11 at 12:57

Adib
293 points

I'm the owner of this site and the product offered there. As you can see, the current price is $29.95. It is very cheap compared to most web scrapers like this. There are two reasons why I want...

Pricing Software

asked Apr 6 '11 at 12:42

Jsoldi
118 points

I'm trying to understand how much info about projections I need to put on the pitch deck. I'm assuming investors don't want all the detail... just the high level numbers (revenue, profit, growth)....

Pitch Investors Deck

asked Apr 6 '11 at 11:23

Nick
1,171 points

I have treated my first few business customers of my software product very well. They are senior managers of medium sized companites. My problem is that I cannot get them to sell my product in...

Marketing Sales Incentives

asked Apr 6 '11 at 07:31

David
1,567 points