Questions

I am in the process of starting a biotech. I have determined that a year is enough time to gather results promising enough to merit much greater investment- or failing, serious reconsideration or...

Funding

asked Feb 26 '11 at 18:41

Cyclone
128 points

Note 1: I am a frequent contributor to SE sites, my account is obviously a throwaway account, for obvious reason. Note 2: I'm not too sure whether such a question is allowed here, I would like to...

Entrepreneurs

asked Feb 26 '11 at 12:43

Sad Guy
36 points

I want to start my own company that allows users to take surveys and get paid for doing so. My question is, how do I get these surveys from affiliates? What companies do I need to contact to supply...

Affiliate Survey

asked Feb 26 '11 at 09:27

Jonathan Kushner
116 points

I have launched a web app a couple of days ago in closed BETA and I have been trying quite hard to contact relevant bloggers (about 12 of them now) to post/tweet about my startup and to offer BETA...

Launch Email Beta Product Launch

asked Feb 26 '11 at 01:31

Carl
33 points

I am the owner of a website that distributes digital content (photo/ footage/ music) for the film, interactive and media industries. We launched four years ago and are among the market leaders in...

Personal Investment Investors Loan

asked Feb 25 '11 at 15:34

User8084
14 points

I started a restaurant with a partner, and I'm looking for ideas to market it online. I know about coupons, Google ads, etc. Any other ideas? I'm currently building the website. What do you guys...

Marketing Restaurants

asked Feb 25 '11 at 09:03

Berto77
120 points

If you are doing a direct sale and don't have any client references to offer, and the prospect is interested in going forward but needs client references what do you do? How can you still get the...

Sales Entrepreneurs

asked Feb 25 '11 at 06:57

Stacey
484 points

I have a company share proposal for co-founders of a web-application startup. I would like to if the structure makes sense, or if anyone can suggest a more suitable structure, which has the desired...

Board Co-Founder Equity Compensation

asked Feb 25 '11 at 06:03

Michael Parks
3 points

Don't laugh, but I'm working on a website idea that isn't novel in any particular way. It doesn't do anything new except service a niche industry in my world view of "better". I very well...

Marketing Acquisition Email Users Clients

asked Feb 25 '11 at 05:14

John
126 points

Direct Mail (letter), Direct Mail (postcard), or email? I'm starting a series of web directories for some specific white collar service professionals (lawyer, accountant, consultant, etc.) As...

Marketing Email

asked Feb 25 '11 at 05:13

Randy
249 points

An associate and I are considering putting together a startup. We will likely (hopefully) have competent counsel draw up the incoporation paperwork. Since this will likely be the firm that my...

Founder Agreements

asked Feb 25 '11 at 03:40

Ev Conrad
561 points

We are a startup building an e-learning tool for the medical education market, and we had a few meetings with colleges. One potential client is taking a long time to decide whether to use our...

Sales Conversion

asked Feb 25 '11 at 03:35

Karan
54 points

I love software and plan to startup a business out of it. However I am told that over 90% of new startups fail before their 5th birthday. I don't intend to fail but I wonder what it takes to...

Software Ideas

asked Feb 24 '11 at 23:24

Dr Deo
123 points

How would you force-rank (1 being highest to 8 being lowest), in terms of value to your startup, the following 8 services provided by an investor: Warm introductions to potential customers Warm...

Funding Venture Capital Investors Seed Funding Value Add

asked Feb 24 '11 at 21:58

Zippy
871 points

Which tax havens would you recommend for this and why? When should we register - early on or once we are earning a certain amount?

Ecommerce Tax

asked Feb 24 '11 at 21:48

Nikolay Piryankov
683 points

We are regularly making some screencasts to demonstrate new functionality to our clients. It would be good to have some nice, engaging background music playing throughout the show. Are there any...

Screencast Music Free

asked Feb 24 '11 at 20:36

Art
350 points

I would like to know how I can have other people to work for me.

Compensation

asked Feb 24 '11 at 15:09

Appmaster
89 points

I'm curious about how you guys organize your ideas for starting up a new business. I have a bunch of ideas that I never tried to implement, basically because I just don't know from where I could...

Recommendations Web Website

asked Feb 24 '11 at 14:07

Tiago Cardoso
202 points

My company plans to start offering a retirement plan with a high degree of matching. The more I look into it, the more I realize there are a ton of options. Traditional 401k, Roth 401k, SEP IRA,...

Benefits 401k

asked Feb 24 '11 at 13:13

Jeffrey Blake
115 points

I do understand that having a minimum viable product is the easiest way to do customer validation, but coming up with a working prototype does take time and effort. I read in one of the blogs that...

Marketing

asked Feb 24 '11 at 12:15

User3462
345 points