Questions

I have been reading a few books on startups recently and particularly promoting the business on a tight budget. Some books break it down into daily, weekly, montly activities. Some talk about...

Marketing Promotion

asked Feb 18 '13 at 09:01

Andrew Welch
167 points

We converted (created new entity then merged) from an LLC to a c-corp. The new c-corp has a different EIN than the LLC. Do we need to notify/update our employees, clients and vendors about the new...

Tax USA IRS EIN

asked Feb 18 '13 at 06:23

Aaron
8 points

We have a B2B Saas offering which is currently free - we are exploring monetisation options and rather than going the route of charging for a premium option we are considering keeping it free and...

Customer Support Monetization Saas

asked Feb 18 '13 at 00:22

Bhttoan
735 points

I'm a technical co-founder in a pre-funding company in a niche tech segment, working with two non-technical co-founders who have largely overlapping skill sets. I met them at a networking event and...

Co-Founder Equity Technical Compensation

asked Feb 17 '13 at 15:07

User25060
6 points

Is it ever okay to send emails regarding your start up to a scraped or purchased list? Is this okay in any scenario? For example, if my start up sold software for managing mobile-hairdressing...

Ethics Email Email Marketing

asked Feb 17 '13 at 10:00

Anonymous
557 points

I'm creating a marketplace website. I was thinking keeping the marketplace exchange on the web app and a much simpler version on the mobile app providing only profiles with some other cool perks...

Getting Started Lean Mobile Apps

asked Feb 17 '13 at 08:06

Zapoo
303 points

I am looking to monetize my start-up website by adding advertisements to it. After doing some research it seems I should look at Pay per Click (PPC) rather than Cost per Thousand (CPM) or some...

Getting Started Monetization Advertising Website

asked Feb 17 '13 at 03:22

Chris
120 points

I am currently doing everything for my startup, bootstrapping. Coding, design, business, marketing, etc. all by myself. My web startup is not launched yet. I have recently started using Asana to...

Project Management

asked Feb 16 '13 at 14:15

Victor
593 points

I have been employed at a research consulting company for several years. During the course of running research projects, I have developed software that I use internally to run some of my projects....

Equity Investment Shares

asked Feb 16 '13 at 06:47

Randigoo
61 points

The product is a healthcare SaaS product which saves money for small clinics. Let's say we can get really confident estimates of how much money we're saving them each month, based on a pilot. Is...

Pricing Saas

asked Feb 16 '13 at 03:24

Robamaton
143 points

wordA and wordB are technical words with 500,000 keyword searches per month. Which is a better domain to host my site? (1) wordA-wordB.net ....or...... (2) wordAwordB.in .net has hyphen, .in is...

Getting Started

asked Feb 16 '13 at 02:05

Oneblueearth
21 points

My understanding is that trademarks afford protection when used as an adjective to represent goods or services, but they do not afford protection for generic usage of a trademarked term and only...

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Feb 16 '13 at 01:24

Cesel
128 points

My website is going to be about technical tutorials/stuff and later I also plan to release an ebook. It's very focused on an important technical topic. The best domain possible is composed to 2...

Domain

asked Feb 16 '13 at 00:23

Oneblueearth
21 points

I and a partner wish to set up a company. One of us lives in the UK and the other in the USA. We both want to make sure we are one legal entity so we can sell shares, or if the start-up was bought...

UK International USA Shares Legal Entity

asked Feb 15 '13 at 21:46

Slappybag
16 points

I'm hoping to start and finish a simple application (simple, so in 3 months?) To declare the opening of a startup, and because I would like to incorporate communication between my application's...

Online Account

asked Feb 15 '13 at 19:13

Yasker Yasker
47 points

Is there any data (such as from app downloads or consumer surveys) that would help a developer decide whether people (consumers) will be more likely to use (download/install) a smartphone app (iOS...

Pricing Apps Ads

asked Feb 15 '13 at 18:24

User25036
1 point

I met a classmate 2 days ago. He is 28 year old and is a deputy general manager and is managing over 200 people. He often drinks with clients and gets drunk. His body is obviously wider than...

Sales Relationships

asked Feb 15 '13 at 14:31

Steven
1 point

We are in the very early stage of organizing and launching a new web-based business. There are two co-founders - one who is CTO and one who is CEO. In addition, we will be including a third person...

Compensation Intellectual Property Micro Startup

asked Feb 15 '13 at 02:15

User25024
6 points

Essentially, I started an LLC about 6 months ago. I have worked pretty closely with another developer, but so far have yet to pay him. We are developing a product right now and I have agreed to...

LLC Payments Tax

asked Feb 15 '13 at 02:13

Livingtech
106 points

I am currently in planning phase for a SaaS application for the UK market. The idea is it will be a small application with few functionality to begin with and then add new features as we go....

Micro Startup

asked Feb 14 '13 at 19:44

User25018
109 points