Questions

I started a website about a month ago just as a side project for fun. It was initially a project for me to try out some new learned features and techniques in Ruby on Rails. Albeit, I started to...

Customers Website Users Customer Retention User Acquisition

asked Aug 18 '13 at 21:25

Apane101
106 points

Scenario: a start-up, post-seed that still has quite a lot of the seed capital in the bank. Investors have lost faith in the start-up's potential, but the co-founders want to keep at it. The...

Investors

asked Aug 18 '13 at 20:03

Sorest Rump
16 points

Over the past few years I have gained a strong interest in Web Development and I finally decided it was time to take it to the next level... Start selling my services as a Web Developer. I am more...

Advertising Business Plan Web Design Promotion

asked Aug 18 '13 at 01:57

Skovy
51 points

I imagine this is a very tricky question but hopefully I can get a few insights here. I am currently wrapping up a personal project (SaaS) that is aimed at a fairly new niche market. There is a...

Competition Revenue Fundraising

asked Aug 17 '13 at 17:30

Silk Admin
106 points

I have an app idea that I believe has a real potential. Since I am going to bootstrap it, I want to only invest in development + marketing after idea validation. Following is my plan for...

Ideas Validation Landing Page

asked Aug 17 '13 at 16:53

Ali
179 points

When two or more people are evaluating a business model, they may desire to have a MOU (memorandum of understanding) to document their expectations about how they will share responsibilities and...

Getting Started Incorporation Partnership Documentation Best Practices

asked Aug 17 '13 at 00:09

New Alexandria
221 points

I have been approached by a company called "Cavendish Management Resources" (http://www.cmrworld.com/ ) - They say they are interested in putting my business idea forwards to their investors, which...

Investors

asked Aug 16 '13 at 23:45

Darkcat Studios
190 points

I was wondering if it is legal to offer a free software with limitations, then offer to give different license keys for donations. In this case, it is a software for file uploads to different...

Software License Payments Donations

asked Aug 16 '13 at 21:24

Sarah Crane
1 point

I've been teaching on the side as a technical expert throughout industry for the last several years, while maintaining a full time job. I have an established an LLC for this side business. Now, I...

LLC Consulting Founders

asked Aug 16 '13 at 10:10

User27452
11 points

Background: I am the CTO, co-founder and sole inventor of a very promising technology company (<25 people) and are sitting on a multi-billion $ opportunity, seriously!) . I now have a minority...

Co-Founder Intellectual Property Exit

asked Aug 16 '13 at 04:32

Gupshup
52 points

Out of a 40-hour work week, how many hours of actual productive work is reasonable for me to expect from a salaried web developer? (low-high range?) In our case, productive work means billable work...

Employees Salary Budget

asked Aug 16 '13 at 01:45

Contrazoom
186 points

My friend has been working in the Semi conductor chip testing business as a contractor for some time now. A thought came to me and I asked him if it was possible that we could mimic the way he is...

Incorporation

asked Aug 15 '13 at 23:38

User27444
6 points

First, I understand this question has been asked several times but I believe this case is a little bit different. Myself and a group of people recently competed in a Startup Weekend event (54...

Equity

asked Aug 15 '13 at 03:53

Ri89
11 points

Here is my dilemma. I have a company with a great reputation for specific dev work. This work is pretty much done by me, understood by me, and relies heavily on my skills and experience. We do...

Growth

asked Aug 15 '13 at 01:25

Daniel Williams
128 points

Classic Chicken or Egg Dilemma: I need to raise funds to build the system I have designed. I need the system built to generate revenue from my customer. I need to be generating revenue to raise...

Getting Started Funding Business Model Developers

asked Aug 14 '13 at 14:36

W00dc4ip
18 points

I'm a foreign national, and resident in a different foreign country. I have no ties to USA, and no intention to hire any employees there. Can I still register a company (e.g. C Corp)? If it is...

LLC Incorporation Registration

asked Aug 14 '13 at 12:26

Steve
310 points

I am starting a small business based in California and I will be working off of home until I can make money to rent an office. I have been advised to register as a single member LLC, but as I read...

LLC California DBA

asked Aug 14 '13 at 04:52

Pegz
6 points

Godaddy usually sell their products (domain and hosting services) at high prices then give an option to enter a promotion code. There's nothing unusual about that, except that these promotion codes...

Marketing Strategy Promotion

asked Aug 14 '13 at 00:37

Pacerier
317 points

I have recently finished an ebook which I now plan to sell. So far I am going to use CreateSpace and plan to support Leanpub.com. Later I plan to publish more e-books. In a few blog posts I read...

Ecommerce Selling Shopping Cart

asked Aug 13 '13 at 23:19

Christian
3,590 points

My business is a brand new startup, and doing something that involves my clients placing a good deal of trust in my software (I let people rent out their computers over the internet - imagine a...

Website Trust

asked Aug 13 '13 at 22:48

Steve
310 points