Questions

It would appear that there is a huge market out there for small mobile applications. Obviously this is both good and bad. There is a lot of potential, as well as lots of noise and competition. What...

Mobile

asked Sep 29 '10 at 01:05

Kevin
126 points

I was looking into joining BizSpark since it seems there is a ton of great benefits. My buddy and I want to create a startup using .Net technology, so how can this not be a win-win? We are going to...

Microsoft Bizspark

asked Sep 28 '10 at 22:43

Martin
1,340 points

I've heard that it is almost impossible to build a startup among friends because a command structure or organization structure is hard to solidify. Everybody wants to be a commander but you cannot...

Corporate Structure Organization

asked Sep 28 '10 at 14:19

Ludwi
128 points

I found a really cool word game that I would like to implement as a mobile app, though I don't if anyone owns the right to the concept. I know there are many games out there, such as Poker or...

Patent Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Sep 28 '10 at 13:07

Beeeefy
108 points

I have seen PMB (Private Mail Box) services from The UPS Store, etc. I have also seen Registered Agent services. Are there any places that do both? One would seem to be a natural/common extension...

LLC

asked Sep 28 '10 at 13:04

Nelson
106 points

Three of us are starting up a new company. Partner A brought the original idea. He also has the IP, the development of which was paid for by a third party. Moving forward, A will only dedicate 10%...

Equity

asked Sep 28 '10 at 07:43

Arnaud
6 points

I was always under the impression that the domain extension didn't matter (as long as it was .com, .net, or .org). I have always tried to market the extension in my brand if it wasn't .com, and I...

Branding Domain

asked Sep 28 '10 at 02:15

Martin
1,340 points

I am adding new section to my site where students or alumni of a particular film schools can be associated with their schools. Facebook did something similar in the early days and later they went...

Networking Ideas Web Website Social Network

asked Sep 28 '10 at 01:19

Usabilitest
1,698 points

pretty high-level question here that might be too general: is there a minimum market size that a typical angel would be interested in investing in? I've heard that a typical VC wants to see a $100M...

Funding Market Research

asked Sep 28 '10 at 01:16

User4481
11 points

I just started a developing company. We are 4 partners. Two of us are programmers. Our start-up is slowly growing — we have a customer and few persons are interested to invest money. Now we need...

Partner Growth

asked Sep 27 '10 at 23:57

Vikingosegundo
126 points

Hey everyone... i have been spending the past 30 minutes trying to find real statistics from any time in the past three years. I am simply trying to find a breakdown by age group of female...

Market Market Opportunity Market Research

asked Sep 27 '10 at 10:56

Bound008
113 points

Not sure if this is the right site for freelancers, but becoming a freelancer is kinda a one-man start-up. Anyway, my question would be, where to start. I only have a technical education and I...

Solo Entrepreneur Foreign Tax Business

asked Sep 27 '10 at 07:47

Znq
164 points

My startup idea involves a web application that has the following requirements: will need to charge my customers securely using someone else's service must scale easily must be cheap to...

Ecommerce Web Dev Web App

asked Sep 27 '10 at 05:43

Jeff
103 points

Microsoft BizSpark proposal for startups is undoubtedly great. Software provided by this program is huge help for a company working with Microsoft development stack. It is for sure. But I'd like...

Marketing Microsoft Bizspark

asked Sep 27 '10 at 03:54

Rem
352 points

Is it a viable idea to start a business without office space and relying on the possibility for employees to work from home? What should be considered as main factors a distributed team to be...

Team Remote

asked Sep 26 '10 at 17:47

Rem
352 points

I co-founded a consulting company in Vancouver 4 years ago with 2 partners. One of us is working full-time with the company and getting a modest salary. Me and my other partner are doing couple of...

Co-Founder Legal Consulting

asked Sep 26 '10 at 10:35

Boolean
388 points

EDIT: SHORT VERSION - From a user's point of view what's better: One big site (Wikipedia) or multiple smaller sites (Spanishpedia and Techpedia) LONG VERSION : I'm starting a site where people...

Website

asked Sep 26 '10 at 09:19

Kyle
111 points

I'm developing a startup website like groupon.com for daily deals. I'm located in Nigeria and I have my system developed already. I started marketing it myself, but this business model seems to be...

Marketing Sales

asked Sep 26 '10 at 05:54

Stanley
59 points

So you want to do marketing for your company. You've created a marketing plan and want to implement it. How do you determine which applications/vendors to use? For example, for email marketing and...

Marketing Strategy Planning Inbound Marketing

asked Sep 26 '10 at 04:11

Chris
4,214 points

Currently, with all the power the Internet provides, it's relatively easy to start online business. There are no obvious restrictions on the process. A business from almost any location can sell...

Ecommerce Legal Tax

asked Sep 25 '10 at 18:32

Rem
352 points