Questions

My current startup(which consists of two) is going through incorporation, registering the merchant account and hooking it up with Braintree. I saw Jason L Baptiste's interview on Mixergy where he...

LLC Incorporation Legal Legal Documents

asked Nov 1 '10 at 04:14

Emil Hajric
161 points

I'm working on an international startup, website based, for which I need to create a name (with corresponding domains for all extensions) that is internationally accepted as my service is meant to...

International Naming Domain

asked Oct 31 '10 at 20:56

Tom
116 points

When a big business tycoon opens a software companies, they get projects of millions of dollars, and the company is always flooded with projects. While if it is a startup that initiates from a...

Software Project

asked Oct 31 '10 at 14:17

Rpk
208 points

Usually salesmen have a base pay and then commission on each sale. I want to know how a company handles this? I mean for example a salesman's basic pay is $1000 and commission ratio is 10% for each...

Sales Salary Compensation USA

asked Oct 30 '10 at 23:55

Dr. Zuni
11 points

I have recently approached my business partner with a request to buy out his membership in our LLC. His involvement as of late is declining and a buy out was something we had planned on from day 1....

Finance Business Plan Partnerships

asked Oct 30 '10 at 05:23

Nclark
21 points

Say a client wants to add something to their extranet webapp which I'm renting out to them. For any customization, I charge an hourly fee. Do I just give them how many hours I worked? New feature...

Billing

asked Oct 29 '10 at 14:07

Level1 Coder
113 points

A friend has an innovative idea about a service. To protect the idea from future patents, he has the idea to make the invention available to the public domain. Is a blog a relevant place to...

Patent

asked Oct 29 '10 at 08:36

Djondal
118 points

I suffer from having too many ideas and am constantly bombarded by my own subconscious that drops stuff on me unexpectedly... My problem is that I need to capture all these ideas very quickly and...

Ideas Tools Organization

asked Oct 29 '10 at 06:27

Patrickgamer
234 points

I'm running a nice dating site with overall good results so far (4 months in, about 4,000 members, 60,000 page view per day), I was wondering if someone with experience in dating/social sites could...

Marketing Metrics Users

asked Oct 28 '10 at 23:12

Sherif Buzz
462 points

I have almost finished developing an iPhone app which I feel has a lot of potential. The problem is I have no money, and I am pretty clueless about marketing. So I feel if I tried to release it by...

Marketing Funding Iphone

asked Oct 28 '10 at 20:05

Mongus Pong
161 points

I would like as simple as possible a registration and login process. Should I use a username or an email address as the key identifier during the login? (Presumably the user db might also a user...

Website User Interface Registration

asked Oct 28 '10 at 19:12

J Delage
277 points

I think we all agree that inbound marketing is hard, takes time and time is money for all small startups. We do have some staff but all occupied with running the business and we don't have anyone...

Marketing Inbound Marketing

asked Oct 28 '10 at 05:32

Dr. Evil
111 points

I found a few places online that sell yard signs for advertising in neighborhoods (you usually see these signs for political ads, yard services, etc) and I was curious if anyone has a good...

Marketing Advertising Promotion

asked Oct 28 '10 at 04:33

Whoiskb
183 points

I particularly like Smart Bear's Blog interface. It's easy to leave a comment, sign up, low barrier of entry to leave a comment, and it's easy for others to chime in on comments. I like the clean...

Blog

asked Oct 28 '10 at 03:58

Alex
40 points

I am starting my own social news portal called TrimHold.com , a project that I have been working on for over a year now. It is a Trilingual website ( Arabic, French, English). The site basically...

Marketing

asked Oct 27 '10 at 21:11

Joseph Ghassan
103 points

I'm currently doing some research into how companies manage employee holiday requests for a startup I'm considering. So, my question is: What do you use to manage holiday requests, and what...

Management Human Resources

asked Oct 27 '10 at 18:26

Codebeef
148 points

My part-time bookkeeper and I are currently reviewing Xero for accounting. I like the online aspect of being able to enter and view data online (my bookkeeper works from home). The cost seems...

Canada Saas Accounting

asked Oct 27 '10 at 12:14

Jonotron
13 points

Just keeping it simple. I am a freelance web designer, I have an accountant, and I take payments payable to my name. Is there any reason I should form an LLC? Am I safe to continue doing what I'm...

LLC Legal Website Web Dev

asked Oct 27 '10 at 11:30

Justin
76 points

Looking at the web environment, it is quite good for a bootstrapped startup. Reasons are: Low barrier to entry Low startup / teardown costs Can start or be built with a single person Highly...

Bootstrapped Market Opportunity

asked Oct 27 '10 at 08:33

Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

We have a couple of fantastic customers (i.e. they bought in early, they give timely and clear feedback, and they celebrate our successes and give us opportunities to fix mistakes). I'm looking...

Marketing Customers Customer Service

asked Oct 27 '10 at 05:42

Joseph Fung
1,542 points