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In this question, the original poster has a hidden question in: Giving up an equity stake puts me at a disadvantage from a voting perspective (or does it?) Can you structure it as a non-voting...

Equity Partnerships

asked May 7 '13 at 17:05

Nick O
108 points

It's widespread among (mostly web development) non-huge companies to add a page about the team members of their company, like SE's Team page here, where they have separate page for their team, or...

Team Micro Startup

asked May 7 '13 at 10:04

Tamer Shlash
144 points

I am a software developer half-way through the design and prototyping of what I believe will be a very successful new software product. Soon I will begin development, and am currently planning on...

Getting Started Business Plan Acquisition Business Process

asked May 6 '13 at 12:02

Ticket Monster
126 points

I was in a debate recently with someone on how we should go about pricing out our material costs to clients and we couldn't decide on what is the proper way in going about doing this. Example:...

Startup Costs Cost

asked May 5 '13 at 12:34

Matt 2.0
188 points

We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit. We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for...

Legal Email Operations

asked May 4 '13 at 21:45

Itai Sagi
337 points

I'm a bit tired and frustrated with my BizSpark application. I've been rejected twice. The first time, I didn't have a company E-Mail and URL. The second time, I provided a proper company E-Mail...

Bizspark

asked May 4 '13 at 15:54

Knack
8 points

I've seen plenty of websites that utilize philanthropic crowd-funding, but I'm unable to find any websites that allow people to purchase equity online. Are there any? If not, for what...

Funding Equity Capital

asked May 4 '13 at 11:07

Steve
3 points

I have a health related website which I am in no rush to monetize, my first priority is to build page rank and dominate the serps. I am thinking about letting healthcare providers advertise their...

Strategy SEO

asked May 4 '13 at 07:48

Jdh
182 points

I work for a UK LTD company who wants to expand to the US. They're arranging the paperwork to start a US business entity, and we have a queue of US customers that means this business will be...

Business Sponsorship

asked May 4 '13 at 04:26

Stuart Hall
6 points

If failed at a business startup, what does it take to have another go? Precis: Left a safe academic job to start up my own services company ... just in time for the Global Financial Crisis. So now...

Getting Started Recommendations Entrepreneurs Business Flameout

asked May 4 '13 at 02:34

Drllau
501 points

My wife and I are partner members in a newly created LLC. Weve made some money this quarter yet have made no distributions but we are uncertain of our future profits/loss for the year. This quarter...

LLC

asked May 3 '13 at 00:10

Keith
1 point

I have an entity I've been working on for roughly 4 years, the last being a real push to get it out the door. A student recently joined me and got us into a student business plan competition and we...

Equity Angel Founders Investment Stock Options

asked May 2 '13 at 22:47

User26081
6 points

I have two freelancers working for me right now and I am using Freelancer.com where you simply send code back and forth by zipping it and using their proprietary messaging system which is clunky....

CRM Code

asked May 2 '13 at 21:16

Clifgray
200 points

I am in the process of drafting the articles of organization for my LLC. I would like to specify in there, that the ownership of the LLC is specified with units, and LLC members receive a certain...

LLC Incorporation Legal Legal Documents Legal Entity

asked May 2 '13 at 13:27

Olli
89 points

I was wondering what is a reasonable/fare commission for someone (call him an agent) who can introduce us to a potential big client. I estimate the client can generate at minimum 400K-600K a year...

Software Negotiation Business Model Saas

asked May 2 '13 at 08:47

Adhg
250 points

I need to set up a company to do some development for couple of companies. Less than 100k of revenue per year. But the problem is that my personal name should be hidden for some very personal...

Offshore Setup

asked May 2 '13 at 04:52

E White
6 points

I recently just started an IT business. I built the product and got the product out there and brought in clients already. I asked a friend to partner with me to build the company. I gave him 30%...

Partner Investment Partnerships

asked May 2 '13 at 04:11

Rasheeda
65 points

A is currently employed at company X which in turn is a vendor for company Z. A realized that certain aspects of running the business for Z which X is failing at can be productized/offered as a...

Legal Business Copyright Intellectual Property

asked May 2 '13 at 00:32

Moonstar2001
186 points

I do work with currencies trading (Forex), I do have Forex traders who trade with my capital, and it is increasing gradually. What I want to do is to find a solution which allows me to run trading...

Finance Legal Offshore

asked May 1 '13 at 23:38

Trading Fx
1 point

I am having a bit of a catch-22 with my business model. I am trying to link employers to prospective employees based on personality/work ethic profiles (think eHarmony for jobs). However, I need a...

Getting Started Marketing Sales

asked May 1 '13 at 14:24

User26065
8 points