Questions

I am running a small business of 10++ people, and am looking to expand the head count to 20++ this year. The business is profitable now, so I am thinking about how to create a profit sharing plan...

Profit Sharing

asked Mar 5 '11 at 20:11

Graviton
871 points

I see in this board the two tags: ToS (which I understood as "The Terms of Service") terms-and-conditions The same I see for on-line services. Some companies, providing on-line services, have...

Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 15:50

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

My company sells fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product. How would one call an entity subscribed for a free service and distinguishably name another that...

Software Web Definitions Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 15:20

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

My company provides fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product. We have not bothered until now much with ToS before but with increase of fee-based clients...

Marketing Sales Legal Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 14:57

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

I've recently been approached by a potential partner to buy a piece of custom software that I have written, and I'm struggling with a way to value the software. They would like to buy the source...

Software Valuation Licensing Royalties

asked Mar 5 '11 at 10:11

Matthew Dorian
292 points

I prefer to do work on my own sites, but I occasionally take one-off small business website jobs where I work with a designer, who owns the client relationship. Most of these sites are content...

Contract Independent Contractor Vendors

asked Mar 5 '11 at 09:00

Pat James
138 points

Nearly one year ago I released a free .NET profiler. I started coding it to solve a unique problem; a problem none of the available profilers could help me with. It was a fun experience and a much...

Marketing

asked Mar 5 '11 at 07:06

Soren Christensen
113 points

CAC = Total Cost of Sales & Marketing / # of Deals Closed My question is - How do you allocate your total cost of sales and marketing if your development team is doing all the demos, follow up...

Metrics

asked Mar 5 '11 at 06:07

Andy Cook
2,309 points

I'm starting a web based healthy snack box (consisting of a variety of dried fruits, nuts, organics, etc.) delivery business in a busy commercial area. The box is designed to provide a healthy...

Marketing Advertising Conversion

asked Mar 5 '11 at 03:05

Hakkasan
21 points

We are an early start up (7 months old), and we are in talks with 3 - 4 clients. We are building an E-learning kind of tool and looking for building the content as well. I kind of sensed one...

Marketing Sales Funding

asked Mar 5 '11 at 00:40

Karan
54 points

I'm trying to decide whether to change my pricing scheme from 'the same price for everyone' to 'a different price depending on which customer you are' (price discrimination / price...

Pricing Marketing Sales Business

asked Mar 4 '11 at 20:13

Steven
1 point

Testimonials seem to be a great idea (social proof, etc), but I'm not sure they have any meaningful impact on sales. And they could actually be causing problems for our existing customers. For...

Marketing Sales Internet Referrals Testimonials

asked Mar 4 '11 at 13:58

Steven
1 point

I know there are a lot of sites out there offering UPC code leases, but the price seems astronomical per product. I have about 16 products that I want to get UPC codes for, but I can't justify...

Products Identity

asked Mar 4 '11 at 05:03

Polyhedron
145 points

My hypothesis is that attributing actions (like site visits) to specific marketing initiatives helps you make better decisions on what marketing initiatives to spend incremental dollars. One...

Marketing

asked Mar 4 '11 at 02:34

Burritoboy
431 points

When working on a startup which way will be the best? Developing from scratch or customize existing projects? Which of them will you choose? Why? I am already a programmer so both of them is ok for...

Development

asked Mar 3 '11 at 22:33

Erkan Balaban
160 points

What are the right questions to ask when someone is providing stock options as a form of partnership?

Partnership Stock Options

asked Mar 3 '11 at 15:11

User8244
11 points

I am involved as a cofounder in a tech/software company. My associate is bringing initial funding and is conversant with finance/accounting, facilities/infrastructure and general organizational...

Strategy Patent Business Copyright

asked Mar 3 '11 at 12:41

Aaron Smothers
56 points

I'd like to consult an expert here and there with a project I am developing. I've found plenty of templates for NDA agreements online and I've already modified one to suit my needs. Is there...

Legal Documents

asked Mar 3 '11 at 11:56

Cyclone
128 points

Almost every client thinks that design is something subjective, and they often get involved in UI and UX design decisions too much. Most of the time, the situation turns like this comic. I...

Web Services

asked Mar 3 '11 at 11:48

Alexchenco
134 points

I have a unique name for my domain/startup. If it's really unique can I trademark the name in general or still have to specify what it sells even if it's unique? And can I trademark something...

Trademark

asked Mar 3 '11 at 09:35

Matt
141 points