Questions

I have a commercial software product that will be launching soon. It has a very similar name to a piece of open source software in a non-English speaking country. The only difference is a...

Marketing Software Products Product Launch Name

asked Jan 2 '13 at 08:38

Firstresponder
113 points

We just got filed as an official LLC in CT and were wondering how we get our Tax ID number(EIN). We would like to open a bank account for the company and assume we need that to open one.

LLC Tax USA EIN

asked Jan 2 '13 at 06:40

Matt Clark
135 points

In the UK, are there any obligations (legal or otherwise) for someone with 'Director' in their job title to also be an officer of the company (i.e. registered as a director at Companies...

UK Legal Titles

asked Jan 1 '13 at 20:39

Harunahi
148 points

I recently spoke to the Director of Sales of a new, successful CRM software. He said a key part of their marketing is PR and getting the media to talk about them. We're building a software for...

Marketing Software Inbound Marketing PR Small Business

asked Jan 1 '13 at 05:50

Sguptaet
242 points

What is a roll-out plan? I tried searching on Google, but without much success. I found http://www.project-open.org/en/tutorial_rollout_plan, but I still don't understand what a roll-out plan is...

Definitions Business Plan

asked Dec 31 '12 at 22:42

Sorin Trimbitas
128 points

I'm currently managing 5 member (whom are also my friends) software development team for my startup and instead of looking for an angel investor I decided to finance my own product by my own. And...

Management Project Management Time Management Team Project Planning

asked Dec 31 '12 at 09:06

Timur Aykut Y?Ld?R?M
121 points

Best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling? Actually, I am searching for the best protocols in managing follow up calls.

Marketing Sales Management Project Management Time Management

asked Dec 31 '12 at 05:58

Anilkumble789
9 points

I am launching a website. It will compete with one other website. The service will be identical for the most part, except my website will be superior in usability and I will also provide some extra...

Charging

asked Dec 30 '12 at 22:28

Arramack
36 points

In planning to build an mobile-app based startup, how good and effective is a business model that depends on other products? Or would a rather better business model be where the app by itself is a...

Legal Business Model Business Mobile Apps Entrepreneurship

asked Dec 30 '12 at 18:24

Quik Tester
6 points

I run a business where sells certain ebooks and pdfs online. I want to form an official business entity just to be able to operate under that name, protect myself from liability as well as get any...

LLC Business Sole Proprietorship S Corp

asked Dec 30 '12 at 14:47

Clifgray
200 points

I'm creating a mobile app for small business wholesalers and the alpha will be finished soon. I have done some face-to-face market research by visiting trade shows they exhibit in and showing...

Software B2B Beta Small Business Mobile Apps

asked Dec 30 '12 at 01:49

Sguptaet
242 points

There are so many mobile applications or games available in mobile app stores today which they distribute for free to users. They don't even show ads in their apps. Even, some of these apps are...

Business Model Revenue

asked Dec 28 '12 at 20:16

Rumit Parakhiya
110 points

I have LOTS of game ideas. Not all are awesome, but they definitely are better than most games I see on Google's Android market and on Apple's AppStore commanding 100k+ downloads. I also have ideas...

Getting Started Startup Costs

asked Dec 28 '12 at 16:15

John
9 points

You hear a lot in the media about _ raised a stage A round of x million, or ___ just got seed funding from a group of angel investors. But what's never explained is the stage that these companies...

Funding Venture Venture Capital Seed Funding Capital

asked Dec 28 '12 at 09:05

Sam
123 points

We are two 50/50 founders of an enterprise SaaS company. both cofounders are tech people with a good grasp of business knowledge. Mainly, one of our cofounders brought most of our clients and...

Equity Saas Salary Compensation Commission

asked Dec 28 '12 at 07:14

Sd Reyes
156 points

We run a Enterprise SaaS company. Monthly, we pay our salesmen and distributors a commission upon their clients sales. I'm afraid we're not giving incentives to software development, hardware...

Business Revenue Distribution Commission

asked Dec 28 '12 at 07:08

Sd Reyes
156 points

I am about to name a business that I have been working on and I want to leave room to expand but I don't want that to dampen the response for the initial location where I am starting the business....

Marketing Internet Marketing Domain

asked Dec 28 '12 at 06:05

Clifgray
200 points

I have been talking to a few companies about offering an exclusive discount which I will be selling to some of my clients and I was curious what kind of legal agreement I should make with these...

Legal Legal Documents

asked Dec 28 '12 at 05:59

Clifgray
200 points

We have a product that is comparable in features and user experience to several competitors, however we are unable to gain any real market share, because the target market is relatively hard to...

Pricing Sales

asked Dec 28 '12 at 05:51

Jeff S
374 points

I'd like to know which options I have or which routes you went in order to get some data about how well an idea "can" do in the real world. How can I do market research/analysis myself? Should I...

Market Analysis Market Research

asked Dec 27 '12 at 22:04

Ducati Nerd
3 points