Questions

This is my first question on here, so please excuse me if I haven't got used to any cultural norms this stack site has. I have an idea, a great idea. An idea that I truly believe, with maybe a...

Ideas Investors Partnerships

asked Mar 11 '11 at 21:17

Mild Fuzz
121 points

I'm thinking of starting a business. It would be a website that would act much like a social-bookmarking site. It would be funded by selling data about websites and this data would be collected...

Legal Data

asked Mar 11 '11 at 18:13

Dan Waterworth
118 points

I am master student in computer science. I will graduate in May. It's been exhausting for me trying to get a software engineer job. I think it will be easier to just start with an internship. Is...

Interns

asked Mar 11 '11 at 16:08

Luke412
11 points

Before I get into the question, I’d like to mention that this is my first venture where I am a decision maker, it's been great but as you will see below, due to some inexperience, I am stumped as...

Customer Support Business Process Organization Communication

asked Mar 11 '11 at 13:50

Danny
113 points

A friend of mine and I are planning to start a new company in the US. He and I are full time employees on different companies, but we are planning to invest out of work hours/weekends to start our...

Software Legal USA

asked Mar 11 '11 at 07:03

Tivo
35 points

I have a startup called Snip that makes software for stylists and salons. At this point, I'm doing something similar to sales but not exactly. I'll explain: at this early stage, I have a product...

Sales

asked Mar 11 '11 at 05:10

Jason Swett
555 points

Getting a .com is getting more and more impossible these days. I really think another domain extension name will take over. If that was the case, which domain name extension you think will become...

Domain

asked Mar 11 '11 at 02:46

Alexchenco
134 points

Does anyhow know a good saas CRM system with the possibility of sending mass mailings to a defined group of leads? I think this feature is the only one with is more or less the thing which is only...

CRM

asked Mar 11 '11 at 00:28

Peter Ellerau
6 points

I am searching for domain name over a week. But all options i have tried bought someone else. And those domain names are not active. They parked somewhere. I am almost out of options. In that case...

Domain Name

asked Mar 10 '11 at 20:09

Erkan Balaban
160 points

I have a crowd-sourced content site. I tend to have a landing/splash page like those Web 2.0 sites, introducing what the site is all about, with screenshots, marketing words, etc. Of course,...

Web 2.0

asked Mar 10 '11 at 12:57

Victor
593 points

I have made a seed investment in a startup. What level of disclosure and updates can I expect from the company's management without getting in their way? How frequently should I receive financial...

Reports Seed Funding

asked Mar 10 '11 at 11:55

Luciano
16 points

Let me start by giving a quick intro to myself. I've worked as a Technician for hosting companies, Systems Administrator for software development companies, as a CTO for a very successful online...

Ideas Business Model

asked Mar 10 '11 at 11:45

Kerx Philo
118 points

Our company has been asked to produce a financial forecast. Normally you would use data from similar businesses in the same industry. But, how can we do this when our business model is different...

Finance Planning Business Plan

asked Mar 10 '11 at 10:00

001
167 points

Henry Blodget wrote this inchoate rant in which he claims that his startup had to pay $10,000 in extra tax in New York for having too much unused capital in the bank. What's he talking about? How...

Tax New York

asked Mar 10 '11 at 07:23

Joel Spolsky
13,482 points

OKCupid wrote their own web server. Isn't the technology stack basically a commodity at this point? They serve a lot of people and want to be fast, but there are very large companies that use MSFT...

Technology

asked Mar 10 '11 at 07:18

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

I am about to send an invoice/purchase order for a company to lease our software for a year. Both companies are in NY - must I charge sales tax and if so, how much? A pointer to the appropriate...

Tax Software Licensing

asked Mar 10 '11 at 01:45

Tim J
8,346 points

abcTech.com is already taken and I'm thinking about registering abcTek.com. Sites like de.lic.io.us (I don't even know where to put the dots) still succeeded despite their horrible names (or maybe...

Recommendations Website Naming Domain Name

asked Mar 10 '11 at 00:44

Foxatlarge
11 points

I'm about to join a new startup as their CTO and we need to choose our server software stack. The client side is a mobile application (Android, iPhone, etc.) so the server side exposes an API and...

Venture Capital Microsoft

asked Mar 9 '11 at 19:44

Asaf R
133 points

I've been running a software startup for the last year - basically the business model is that I customize the software products released under GPL for my end customers. These customizations are...

Legal GPL

asked Mar 9 '11 at 16:51

Ajay
13 points

I already got my first round, piece of cake. We had a million dollars sitting in the bank. But now we've burned through it, and we need to raise again. I'm worried that the pressure from having a...

Funding Seed Funding

asked Mar 9 '11 at 15:54

Balaji Chandrasekaran
18 points