Questions

Let's say a certain startup is currently in the Friends-and-Family stage. What will happen to the investments of those people during a seed round or when someone invests bigger?

Seed Funding

asked Sep 23 '13 at 18:48

Abel Melquiades Callejo
47 points

I'm an informal advisor to a non-tech startup that is putting together a formal board of advisors. Could I please have some feedback on a suggested approach to luring another advisor, who I think...

Advisors

asked Sep 23 '13 at 09:37

City Entrepreneur
42 points

I'm looking at starting my own remote I.T support company. As the work would be done remotely, I won't be seeing the customers face to face to sign documents. If I made my own website which stated...

Contract Legal

asked Sep 22 '13 at 23:37

Muffinbubble
115 points

I'm planing to startup a company, that will operate online, with one more person. We are not from the United States but we would like to incorporate it there. Maybe Delaware or California, we are...

Incorporation Startup Costs Tax

asked Sep 22 '13 at 12:12

Diego Armando Rincon
113 points

Me and my co founder have finished the beta version of our product and we should be launching within the next two months. The equity percentages have been agreed based on both our contributions in...

Equity

asked Sep 22 '13 at 02:44

Unique81
6 points

I'm 47 years old Software Engineer/Architect, I work for very prestigious Fortune 500 company and have a 6 figure salary.. and I'm bored like the HELL... I'm sick of the politics, the bureaucracy.....

Startup Costs

asked Sep 20 '13 at 23:43

Tombee
16 points

Im currently in a situation where me and my co-founder are determining equity shares. To give a background, I came up with the idea and approached my co-founder (who is a dear friend and was a...

Equity

asked Sep 20 '13 at 19:30

Unique81
6 points

UK company wants to start up a subsidiary in the US. The first employee and the person heading it up will be a Canadian citizen living in Montreal. What issues if any does this structure pose?

Getting Started Foreign Legal

asked Sep 20 '13 at 06:39

Jim Thompson
1 point

Id like to know what investment options, equity or debt financing options exists amongst VC Firms for Entrepreneurs wanting to buy out their Investors stake in the business. In other words, exit...

Founder Finance Venture Capital Investors Exit

asked Sep 20 '13 at 06:30

T.G. Van Zyl
11 points

We're struggling to find a CRM suitable for ourselves, a SAAS company. When customers sign up for trials, we want to be able to keep a record of their progress with prompts to call or email them...

Sales Software Management CRM Growth

asked Sep 19 '13 at 19:46

Igor K
106 points

I'm a tech/product guy at a seed-stage startup in New York City and have been working there for 2 years (about Sept '11). At first, I started by taking a signficantly reduced market rate and 5%...

Equity

asked Sep 19 '13 at 01:49

Joe
6 points

I'm an ios developer and created an app which allows the user to add different texts and reposition them. I would like to provide my users with a premium feature which is a font pack. I'm looking...

Intellectual Property

asked Sep 18 '13 at 15:24

Vondip
584 points

I've built a website, and now I need a contract written for it (along with a TOS and a privacy policy, but those are simpler, and I know their names). I want a contract where I pay a person once a...

Contract Legal Website

asked Sep 18 '13 at 04:47

James G.
103 points

I have a new startup and need some additional Java programmers. The problem is: the majority of applicants have just gotten completely stuck and given up when presented with an extremely simple...

Hiring Development

asked Sep 17 '13 at 19:38

Jeremy List
46 points

I have a .net licensing tool that I have created that is currently being used by many developers and I am at a point to start advertising it for a larger audience. How do you effectively market a...

Marketing Licensing

asked Sep 17 '13 at 11:41

Smt
6 points

My startup is a marketplace for compute time (a crowd-sourced alternative to Amazon EC2/Web Services), where buyers can rent computer time via the internet by the hour. Ideally I'd like to...

Risk Customers Payments

asked Sep 17 '13 at 02:54

Steve
310 points

I'm part of a small team with a website that is thankfully growing. We are in the process of trying to make some projections, and while budgeting for future technology-related costs such as...

Customer Support

asked Sep 17 '13 at 01:54

Paul Mennega
108 points

In an HRIS (human resources) application there are active and inactive employees - the inactive need to be kept for legal reasons but also for application effectiveness as employee id is used as a...

License Saas Licensing

asked Sep 16 '13 at 19:35

Bhttoan
735 points

I have been pouring over books and the internet for an answer to this question. I understand that this type of question "depends" on many things but if people have had similar experience if would...

Sales

asked Sep 16 '13 at 01:29

Matt R
1 point

I am a web developer working for a normal IT company. My dream,my goal to start my own IT company. AS i have observed lot, many small private organizations in my locality are still using paper...

Getting Started IT

asked Sep 14 '13 at 23:41

Bhargava Katta
16 points