Questions

Filing a trademark seems easy and relatively cheap. And I'm planning to do so to protect my new brand despite it not being particularly valuable. The tricky part - the part where you have to decide...

Trademark

asked Dec 3 '12 at 02:34

Paperjam
394 points

I have recently been employed as a consultant doing software development for a company based in California (for around $100K). I am a US citizen and I am thinking of incorporating, mainly for the...

Incorporation

asked Dec 2 '12 at 21:14

System Down
113 points

I have looked into Imagine k-12, and sadly they are closed to new applicants right now which I'm super bummed about, and NewSchools. How else can I get seed funding for an educational startup that...

Investors Seed Funding Education

asked Dec 2 '12 at 19:18

Apis Girl
38 points

Can I sell SAAS product with no customer support. We have small utility which we can sell to customers at small price, but we do not have people to support it. If we tell customer upfront when they...

Customer Support

asked Dec 2 '12 at 05:31

Prashant K
6 points

I have an online Fashion catalog and I want to recruit lady college students as retailers. I provide them with an online shop (under their name), So if the lady student's name is Debbie, She can...

Ecommerce Tax Retail

asked Dec 1 '12 at 22:40

Guy Hyams
1 point

How can I expose my startup to seed and angel investors instead of cold calling them? Is there any way to get feedback from them? In Silicon Valley or other major startup scenes.

Pitch Angel Investors Seed Funding

asked Dec 1 '12 at 09:46

John S
184 points

I want to create an extension that adds content on third party sites. I will not show any advertising and I will not hide the site's content. I'd like to add my related content to 5 or 6 third...

Legal Website Terms And Conditions

asked Nov 30 '12 at 18:10

Giorgio Resci
8 points

I am in the process of launching an LLC for app development. I already have a potential customer who has inquired about an app which I am currently creating mock-up designs for. Before I present...

Development Customers NDA

asked Nov 30 '12 at 18:03

Matt Clark
135 points

We are in our seed round and the investors are asking for preferred shares of the company and terms that they own a percentage of the code/software and a percentage of the patent rights. We are...

Finance Startup Costs Angel Investors Seed

asked Nov 30 '12 at 14:46

Devin Shavenoff
8 points

My SaaS startup has gained some early traction (a slowly growing number of paying customers built up over our first few months after launch). It's now time to "step on the gas" and grow the...

Sales Saas

asked Nov 30 '12 at 04:23

Bc Web
101 points

So I got my first job recently as junior web-developer. My company creates small/medium sites for wide variety of customers: autobusiness companies, weddign agencies, some sauna websites, etcetc,...

Getting Started Website Web Design

asked Nov 30 '12 at 03:20

Gerald Blizz
21 points

Possible Duplicate: Non .Com Domains - Does it Really Affect Branding? What do you think - will a .com domain be more or less worth with the rise of the new domain extensions like .app and...

Domain

asked Nov 29 '12 at 23:37

Tom
6 points

I am starting a coupon website of local vendors, but I don't know how to calculate the fees. For example, a vendor on my site offers a coupon for 15% off on a product's price, or 15% off for any...

Affiliate

asked Nov 29 '12 at 21:24

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

This is my first startup. I was working with a friend on his startup. He was going to offer me 20% of the company and we worked on it for 4 months. The idea was good but we ran out of money before...

Co-Founder Founder Founders

asked Nov 29 '12 at 15:58

Devin Shavenoff
8 points

I had this brilliant startup idea for a while, and finally had some small funds to hire a programmer. It's been about two months now with no functionality results, and only design/theme drafts. I...

Outsourcing Developers Scams

asked Nov 29 '12 at 12:13

Yangt09
55 points

I operate a web development firm with an increasing volume of work. Rather than hire local developers as full-time employees, I've taken the approach of working with a network of remote developers...

Outsourcing Developers Sub Contractors

asked Nov 29 '12 at 09:43

Contrazoom
186 points

We are new to the software field and have been launched ~4 months = 8 sales so far.The conversion rate is 0.5 %.Product is priced around $25-$30 We are in a market with lot of competition,in fact...

Marketing Sales Software

asked Nov 28 '12 at 22:17

James
11 points

I have a small contract that I have to makeup, but the biggest importance is to make sure the the source code buyout doesn't have a set price. What would be the best way of wording this? Ideally,...

Getting Started Software Legal

asked Nov 28 '12 at 14:18

Eghdk
111 points

How will I know when my company is ready to receive an investment? I am starting a company and have bootstrapped it so far. I have produced four versions of the demo. The first fully-working...

Funding Investors

asked Nov 28 '12 at 11:10

Gunshor
1 point

I start a product location search site. the idea is retailers give us the data of their products, so that their users can search their products by location and keywords. We've got a problem, how...

Marketing Search

asked Nov 28 '12 at 10:00

Justicepenny
106 points