Questions

I have recently established a company to sell ecommerce software as SaaS. There are some leads that request proposals from me. I am in a dilemma. There are two risks that I want to avoid: I want...

Software Ecommerce Customer Support Project Management Agreements

asked Jan 28 '11 at 20:00

Mert Nuhoglu
116 points

My undersntanding is that there is no legal difference between naming my S Corporation MyCompanyName Incorporated vs MyCompanyName Corporation. However, are there any preferences on which one to...

Incorporation Business Naming

asked Jan 28 '11 at 18:40

Tauren
240 points

I would like to know what it takes to provide an online payment gateway like worldpay paypal etc

Payments

asked Jan 28 '11 at 15:46

User6890
6 points

I'm starting a small business and I'm concerned about personal liability. I like the idea of a corporation providing some protection, but I'm uncomfortable with the notion that the corporate veil...

Incorporation Insurance Corporate Structure Liability

asked Jan 28 '11 at 15:23

Mcohen75
157 points

We are looking to have a few jewelery pieces manufactured in lots of 100-300 at a time. I'm not sure where to look as we have zero manufacturing experience. The items will be small silver...

Outsourcing

asked Jan 28 '11 at 11:26

Citadelgrad
107 points

I have a SaaS product and want to offer my customers the ability to accept credit cards themselves. What's the quickest way to set this up? EDIT: I'm starting to think that giving the SaaS user a...

Credit Cards Saas

asked Jan 28 '11 at 09:57

Jon Kragh
185 points

Possible Duplicate: What is the best merchant processing solution? I plan to sell online space for multimedia solution and charge user per month (everymonth) or yearly. This would primarily be...

Ecommerce Billing

asked Jan 28 '11 at 06:37

Jewelthief
151 points

I started a venture last year, and now for the first time I'm having to deal with taxes related to the startup. As my tax accountant informed me, I need to send those who made over $600 W9 forms...

Tax

asked Jan 28 '11 at 06:08

Artem Russakovskii
106 points

Ok, so I've got (yet another) idea for a startup, which I think is pretty good. The innovative and most expensive part of it might just not be possible but the project could fallback to a good...

Getting Started Recommendations

asked Jan 28 '11 at 02:13

Cawas
120 points

I am looking to get in touch with my contacts and previous clients. I used to use Gmail but there would be major problems like sometimes when I send email from [email protected] , they don't...

CRM

asked Jan 27 '11 at 23:44

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

I meet a lot of wantrepreneurs who are very smart but not at all into the plumbing of websites. They totally get concepts such as minimum viable product and split testing, and they want to be...

Technology Analytics Website Ab Testing

asked Jan 27 '11 at 20:18

Jeremy Parsons
5,197 points

I just found this post on HN: It may be pretty hard to compare US and foreign offers. For instance, in France, you'd be earning 36000 euros in cash --what's landing on your account --, however...

Salary

asked Jan 27 '11 at 20:02

Znq
164 points

The site www.listia.com uses credits as a way to buy goods through auctions. These credits are not real money with the exception that you can buy more credits with real money if you desperately...

Recommendations Legal Consulting

asked Jan 27 '11 at 18:46

Shir
51 points

I'm reading Jeffrey Gitomer's The Little Red Book of Selling. One of its ideas is "give value first": tell people how they can improve their businesses and increase their profits and they'll want...

Customers Business

asked Jan 27 '11 at 06:59

Jason Swett
555 points

We are currently a LLC from Uruguay, and we've been requested by a potential customer in the US to provide employer identification number (EIN). So we are evaluating the possibility of...

Incorporation Offshore

asked Jan 27 '11 at 06:58

Gabriel Lopez
31 points

If every once in a while I get an idea for a good article I would like to write. But not very often. Should I start a blog for this? If not, what should I do with the articles I write?

Blog

asked Jan 27 '11 at 04:00

Jd Isaacks
111 points

I have an idea for a software product that I am working on. I'm not close to being done with a releaseable version (by a long shot) but since I can't work at it at the moment I figured I'd ask...

Website

asked Jan 27 '11 at 03:56

Jetti
289 points

So, I was reading Guy Kawasaki's questions to ask a startup. One of them is to ask if you can speak with one of the investors on the Board of Directors. A startup that offered me a job asked me if...

Hiring Employees Investors

asked Jan 26 '11 at 17:41

Jason
139 points

I was interviewed by a lady from Zynga and she told me that Zynga doesn't allow developers to have side projects. Is this true for companies in general, or just a minority that Zynga is a part of?...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Jan 26 '11 at 16:35

John
716 points

Ours is a B2B SaaS startup (LAMP stack). We are at a very early stage of the Startup. So, we don't need any dedicated hosting at this time. We have planned to use Amazon (not finalized though). In...

Blog B2B Saas Hosting

asked Jan 26 '11 at 15:39

Dhana
16 points