Questions

I was just wondering if it is common to ask your co-founders to get their signitures notroized? I trust these people as we are good friends so I don't want to offend them if I asked to get it...

Contract Business

asked Apr 10 '13 at 01:08

Geddon
20 points

I have been outsourcing some work to freelancers. I have had some great success and some less than ideal outcomes. If I am working with a freelancer who is not pulling their weight for whatever...

Outsourcing

asked Apr 9 '13 at 23:32

Andrew Welch
167 points

So I was thinking of calling my software company 'something'-soft. e.g. Perrysoft. Do people read that as copying or cashing in on the name Microsoft?

Name

asked Apr 9 '13 at 22:02

Ian Warburton
113 points

This is more like a behavioral problem. I always want to start a business. Since this feeling increasing day by day, I am more obsessed in my day job(software Engineer). 1.I have few startup...

Work Life Entrepreneurs

asked Apr 9 '13 at 19:09

Codebrain
187 points

This may sound like a very naive question for a site on Startups, but...how do payroll taxes work? From what I can tell from doing database work at a company they seem to consist of percentages of...

Tax USA Payroll

asked Apr 9 '13 at 05:54

Leeand00
108 points

I have a person on staff who has been doing a lot of admin type work: support, billing, etc. I am thinking that I will want another programmer (PHP/MYSQL/etc) in the next 6-12 months for some new...

Software Management Employees

asked Apr 9 '13 at 01:27

Simon
165 points

One service will be used for region A because it offers paypal, the second one will be used for region B (it does not have paypal option) but offers automatical generation and sending invoice for...

Ecommerce Payments Saas Payment Gateway

asked Apr 8 '13 at 20:20

Alexey Grigoryev
62 points

I have a coupon website and I have approached a few online stores and offline stores to partner with them to offer their coupons. Very often I get this answer from them "coupons are unsustainable....

Ecommerce Website Affiliate

asked Apr 8 '13 at 19:16

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

I am developing something like a web application framework in Ruby, and I want to turn that into a business. The application is provided as a single library, and can be used by simply require -ing...

Platforms Web App

asked Apr 8 '13 at 14:30

Sawa
110 points

I'm a very small business with limited means. I sent a shipment to Australia from the United States via USPS Priority Mail. I charged the customer the USPS's cost $34.80 for shipping plus for three...

Shipping

asked Apr 7 '13 at 06:16

Lee Richardson
108 points

I keep reading about the high percentage of tech startups in the US that are founded by immigrant entrepreneurs (39% in California ). I also keep reading about how hard immigrating to the US is for...

Getting Started Foreign Legal

asked Apr 6 '13 at 16:01

Tyler
24 points

I have a federally incorporated company, lets call it Company INC, and a bank account for it. The company activity is listed as a technology company, but I want to branch out and do some more...

Incorporation Canada DBA

asked Apr 6 '13 at 07:08

Stan Trying A Startup
108 points

e.g. restaurants are rated as $/$$ etc. Menupages.com does the same. We are building a specific kind of ratings site and want to add this feature. Just wondering if this is a manual process or a...

Review Web App

asked Apr 5 '13 at 22:58

User25771
5 points

I have worked with some startups, and heard people saying, they have bla...bla...bla business plan that is way better than their competitor, and for sucess you must have a good business model ...

Business Model Business Plan Business

asked Apr 5 '13 at 19:09

Ay89
113 points

I am going to start working on a project, but divided between two project ideas. The first one is interesting to me personally, and I have been toying with it for some time as an evening hobby,...

Getting Started Sales Motivation Monetization

asked Apr 5 '13 at 13:16

Mitten
31 points

I got a request for a proposal to create a web application. The application would be used internally by a company to manage aspects of their business process. Coincidentally, the proposed...

Bootstrapped Ethics Apps Web App

asked Apr 5 '13 at 06:27

Mohamad
121 points

I have what I think is a really good idea for a product/business. I don't have time to develop it so I'm thinking of sharing the idea with some entrepreneurship students at a local university. I...

Equity Founders

asked Apr 4 '13 at 13:09

Clay Nichols
737 points

I am providing a quote for wireless service to a client. Without getting too technical, suffice it to say that their site will need a computer to perform this service. The interesting thing to note...

Getting Started Quote Purchasing

asked Apr 4 '13 at 04:26

Md Moore313
290 points

My associates and I own a services business. To improve efficiency we started to developed own software two years ago. The software we developed seems to be very effective and time-saving for us...

Software Equity Stock Options Software Licensing Stocks

asked Apr 3 '13 at 22:57

Gauthier
1 point

I have been in the retail industry for over 14 years. I pitched an idea to an old friend of mine to open a mattress store about two years ago. We opened the company as an LLC. I had all the...

LLC Retail

asked Apr 3 '13 at 10:26

Jay
6 points