Questions
I am going to join a start-up founded by one of my colleagues. He made a mobile app by which he won some prizes, and got funding from a government program. He is the only one in the company and...
6 points
From my understanding of Paul Graham's Article http://paulgraham.com/msftpatent.html, IP doesn't have much affect on digital products/services. For example, youtube, tinyurl, groupon, kickstarter...
8 points
What would you recommend a B2B startup do for a go-live event? We've been in open beta for the last 2 months and January, if all goes well, is our planned "Live" month. What would be the things to...
886 points
What non-disclosure agreement do you use? Did you get it online? Would you be willing to share it for the world to use?
113 points
Does anybody here understand the basics of online businesses (online billing- client relations management software, etc) and other aspects like hiring and working with outsourced help and Sales...
46 points
Happy New Year! I am beginning to write a business plan for a future startup based on an innovative software technology I developed. An actual product is still in development. I am using a...
168 points
Our startup is getting bigger and I'm thinking about decreasing our weekdays to 4. I always wanted this for myself and now I thought I can give it a try in my own company. We are fairly small,...
2,305 points
My husband went into business with a gentleman who seemed to be very clued up (he's an accountant). He has numerous other businesses and was able to open doors that we would never have had access...
81 points
I have developed few software products for micro to small businesses and a security product. I want to market these products but I can't spend much on paid online marketing. I am noticing that...
I'd like to build an RSS feed for my website's twitter. It would be a feed of links that interest my user demographic-- college students.. the links would be funny, informative, interesting, etc....
I currently live in South Africa, but I am an Australian citizen. I am planning to relocate to the UK for 2 years and then Ireland indefinitely. I am building an online business to market a product...
11 points
This will be tough to explain but.... What do you do when you are developing a software that needs to deal with large amount of variations of semi structured data from the web ? I told myself it...
644 points
If I was to build a free hosted customer support service, would anyone want to use it? i.e Community powered customer support platform (post public), with company help desk ticket support (post...
167 points
If a startup sells into IT departments, is it beneficial for that startup to enter into a relationship with IT research and advisory firms like Forrester, Gartner, etc.? Do these firms bring...
16 points
I have recently formed an e-learning company. Things are doing fine however I feel I need to learn how to motivate others in my company and surroundings. When I try to do that people feel I am...
16 points
I read a blog post that said before you start developing your product, you should find at least 10 people who are willing to pay for the product. This seems like good sense to me and I plan to...
555 points
I recently left my job to work on starting up a small software company. While I was employed, I paid about $70 a month for health insurance. I'm on COBRA now, which costs $560/month. Do I have...
198 points
I want to invite different investors/angels to invest a US version of my company which is up and running in Europe. In trying to get the best deal I am thinking of a 'sealed bidding' auction for a...
11 points
I recently started an LLC with a business partner and quickly realized it was a mistake and we are in the process of having his name removed from the company. As no work was performed by this...
152 points
I'm a first-time entrepreneur and I've come across a few problems and solved them. I'm dealing with a certain couple of problems now that I'm not sure how to solve. Before I ask my questions, let...
555 points
