Questions

I want to start another dot-com company. So, can you tell me what importance domain name plays to get Seed funding? The startup will be primarily based on web and company name might not be same as...

Website Seed Funding Domain

asked Jul 17 '13 at 05:42

Gaurav Goyal
47 points

I have a full-time job, 40 hours a week. I make good money that helps me have a secure life and leaves me some money for savings + about $200 to fund for my project. Basically I can do both the...

Getting Started Startup Costs Bootstrap

asked Jul 17 '13 at 05:39

Alex
31 points

founder on a team of 4. 3 of us agree that one co-founder who has been with the company since the beginning (~9 months) needs to leave. We’re all on a stock vesting agreement, and none of our...

Co-Founder Legal

asked Jul 17 '13 at 03:56

User27015
1 point

What about a flexible, short term - office space like Regus? What are your thoughts about it?

Marketing Sales Entrepreneurs Legal Business

asked Jul 17 '13 at 01:33

Shweta
6 points

I am founding a startup and trying to determine the correct equity split to expect. The situation is that at my former company (Company A), I developed some software, which is currently owned by...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property

asked Jul 17 '13 at 00:16

Randigoo
61 points

I am a professional developer, and I work on the side on my own projects. I incorporated a company about a year ago, and my last side-project generates about $400 a month. I have now started...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time

asked Jul 16 '13 at 22:38

Antipasti
3 points

I had a part-time co-founder but he is leaving. How can he hand back equity? I'm based in the UK and I've heard of a form called J10, but once this is done how do we change the information...

Co-Founder Equity UK

asked Jul 16 '13 at 09:58

Olive
106 points

I am working full time as a Software Developer and I am making my startup go live this September 2013. My question is that, should I/Not put CEO/Founder Title in my LinkedIn profile while working...

Getting Started Linkedin Titles

asked Jul 15 '13 at 23:22

Rg 3
136 points

I am a techie, now creating few amazing text extraction tech(yes, few of them are world's first related to web data). I am full time into it, and still I do not have any problem going opensource if...

Marketing Technology Entrepreneurs Business Data

asked Jul 15 '13 at 21:26

Akshayb
116 points

A potential partner and I discussed one of my ideas. The idea is mine and at the time of discussion, it was not clear that we would be partners. I was essentially discussing ideas with an industry...

Co-Founder Ideas Equity Partnerships

asked Jul 15 '13 at 11:54

Moonstar2001
186 points

I would greatly appreciate some guidance or ideas of more experienced entrepreneurs. I am working on a complex startup that involves the development of a robot with complex software. In order to...

Funding Development Venture Capital Entrepreneurs Hardware

asked Jul 15 '13 at 06:01

Pmolina7
11 points

In my startup I plan to hire independent contractors for recurring ad-hoc jobs. If freelancers are usually not business entities and do not have a possibility to give an invoice, how can I legally...

Legal Tax

asked Jul 15 '13 at 00:20

Shikaka
1 point

Is this legally fine if a employee does his own business. As he works daily at his office (employer's place) while his employees (personal business) handles his business and he can tally all...

Legal

asked Jul 14 '13 at 04:46

Jaczjill
104 points

I'am a student and joined a Startup as a summer intern, as a Web Developer. Later on I said that I am willing to continue work for at least 1 year (part time) and they agreed. Is it okay if I ask...

Bootstrapped Equity Technical

asked Jul 14 '13 at 03:56

Gaurav Goyal
47 points

All, I am a cofounder at a startup and we are still in the process of setting up payroll. For the time being, we have estimated taxes and are paying both my cofounder and myself the after-tax...

USA Payroll

asked Jul 13 '13 at 01:49

James
133 points

If you have a relative low cap on a convertible note angel round, will that hurt your chances of getting series A financing?

Angel Convertible Note

asked Jul 12 '13 at 09:06

Tom
6 points

I know the I-9 document states that the form must be completed in 3 business days of the employee's first day of work. If the employee says they'll provide documentation, but after three days have...

Employees USA Legal Documents

asked Jul 12 '13 at 03:46

Captain Crypto
16 points

I am working as a single worker in my small office. For the last year I have had more work than I can manage and I am thinking about employing someone to help me. Now, is there a way that I can...

Employees Cost Estimation

asked Jul 12 '13 at 01:25

Ben Mcss
143 points

I have started a comparison website for electronic consumer goods vendors, the website is ready, but I am having a problem getting in touch with someone whom I can speak to . I've tried asking for...

Marketing Website

asked Jul 11 '13 at 18:55

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

I'm building a web app that generates SEO reports. I've built a bare minimum prototype and received some exciting feedback from potential customers. As of now, the only thing I have publicly live...

Pricing Freemium Prototype

asked Jul 11 '13 at 01:22

Mnort9
201 points