Questions

I find the topic of outsourcing incredibly interesting, and I propose the question: Is Outsourcing Evil? A recent blog post at onstartups got me going about even more about it. Up until this week...

Outsourcing Morality

asked Jan 7 '11 at 09:24

Alex Cook
641 points

I am making a new site, and I need some investors for it. The work is quite done, but I am unable to find people who would like to invest in the site. How and where can I find...

Venture Capital Website Investors

asked Jan 7 '11 at 07:26

Amit
113 points

I'm an Android developer, but this question is pretty much the same for an iPhone dev. I'm based in the USA, and I'm looking for any tips regarding taxes for app sales. Since apps sell in over...

Tax Iphone Mobile Android

asked Jan 7 '11 at 06:38

Hunterp
141 points

This is a question about private, VC-funded, growth stage companies. It seems to be a new trend to allow early employees to sell some of their shares when the company does a new funding round. For...

Funding Equity Venture Capital

asked Jan 7 '11 at 01:36

Joel Spolsky
13,482 points

We ask for customer feedback about our software on uninstallation via a web form. In our experience, we only rarely get anything valuable our of this. It is even worse. Particularly, emails from...

Email

asked Jan 6 '11 at 21:46

Droplet
56 points

The following is a copy and paste from this discussion with Pierre 303: Let us take an example where I believe that it is clear that there are no reasons for budget. Imagine a company, which has...

Strategy Management Budget Large Companies Strategic Management

asked Jan 6 '11 at 19:30

David
1,567 points

I want to start multiple businesses. For these businesses I would like to have a separate checking account, telephone number, mailing address. What do you suggest to make this as simple as...

Email Domain Bank Account

asked Jan 6 '11 at 14:32

Steve
56 points

StackExchange would be a great alternative to such services as GetSatisfaction. I noticed that fogbugz is using StackExchange as a tool for driving community questions and answers. Is it possible...

Customer Support Support

asked Jan 6 '11 at 10:55

Radek
148 points

I'm working on a business-to-business web app. About a year ago we gave our users the ability to charge credit cards (from customers calling them over the phone) directly within our software...

Software Credit Cards Security

asked Jan 6 '11 at 04:16

Alex Cook
641 points

I am a newbie to Wordpress and have set up a hosted blog with wordpress but the default theme is not what i am looking for. I am looking for a theme that is SEO optimised and then also have the...

Blog Wordpress Templates

asked Jan 6 '11 at 04:05

Beginning Steps
50 points

This is a follow up question to DNS Hosting Services - hopefully it's okay that I post like this. I'm running a business app where users move their site to our platform, and looking for a better...

Domain DNA

asked Jan 5 '11 at 14:42

Alex Cook
641 points

My startup's products will primarily be purchased by women, and thus I'd like to hire a sales and marketing director who is a woman. Is it against the law for me to advertise this position that I'm...

Hiring

asked Jan 5 '11 at 13:13

Jeff
51 points

As the producer of a commercial app can I ask users for media to use in the app in exchange for small payment (i.e. $5 for each pic used) to fill in content of the app? If so can I have users email...

Legal

asked Jan 5 '11 at 09:56

Jan
143 points

I have designed a prototype of my idea which includes simple electronic circuits. I would like to manufacture it in China. (yes ... because of the money) I would like to know how it is to find a...

Business China Electronics

asked Jan 5 '11 at 08:05

Hamed
16 points

Warren Buffet says, "Hire people based on Passion,Intelligence and Integrity." People's passion is visible in the first meeting, and intelligence comes out in a couple of hours in a discussion, but...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Jan 5 '11 at 07:55

Syed
445 points

Have a look at the following layouts for some well known...

Launch Design

asked Jan 5 '11 at 07:37

Cherouvim
219 points

How might you record a loan from directors to the company in the books? From my perspective this is an investment into the company which I hope will be refunded when the company makes...

UK Accounting

asked Jan 5 '11 at 05:56

Romkyns
118 points

I'm working on a website that I'll need beta tested soon. It's a startup. Where should I go to get a good pool of testers? It would also be great to have a good pool of hackers who can show...

Website Testing Beta

asked Jan 5 '11 at 05:21

Kirk Strobeck
80 points

Surely we aren't the only ones that have faced this. A new customer of ours (based in the UK) is trying to set us up as a vendor and sent us a form to fill out. The assumptions on the form are that...

Payments VAT Global Customers

asked Jan 5 '11 at 04:55

Tim J
8,346 points

We all know the legendary companies that became huge as a result of investors (both angels & VCs) but are there good examples of successful companies that took off simply on funding from the...

Success Investment

asked Jan 5 '11 at 01:16

Henry The Hengineer
4,316 points