Questions

What's the quickest way to get a quick term loan or SBA loan? My company has been in business for about 5 years, with over $20,000 in monthly cash flow. I have tried to apply for financing with a...

Finance Financial Loan Small Business Fast Business Loans

asked Feb 25 '20 at 20:31

Rocco Schmidt
308 points

A little background on my business: I have been in business for about 4 years and generate $190K in annual profits. The one thing holding my small business back from growth is lack of capital. Been...

Loan Small Business

asked Aug 13 '18 at 15:01

Chrissie Gray
1,107 points

I was interviewed by a lady from Zynga and she told me that Zynga doesn't allow developers to have side projects. Is this true for companies in general, or just a minority that Zynga is a part of?...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Jan 26 '11 at 16:35

John
716 points

I have come up with an idea for a new social networking application. It's not something I expect to be hugely successful, but I think it does have some potential. I've approached a few close...

Software Partner Equity

asked Jan 22 '10 at 07:37

Matt
1,383 points

Let's face it. As startups, we can't really offer top-dollar salaries to our employees. But we can offer some fun benefits that the big companies can't/won't. Here are a few that we have that seem...

Employees Benefits

asked Oct 15 '09 at 12:20

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

I have a reasonably successful SaaS, which is pretty much a one-man show; I always wanted a co-founder but never found the right person. It's been running for a number of years now, growing...

Solo Entrepreneur Hiring Outsourcing

asked May 26 '11 at 20:54

J22
543 points

I am a web developer. In the last year and a half, I've been working on several ideas, one after the other. I found that as much as I enjoy developing them, in the end, I keep bumping my head...

Marketing Advertising PR

asked Apr 16 '11 at 17:06

Vondip
584 points

Although the question has the word "marriage" in the title, it is really about any most important relationship in a founder's life, be it husband/wife, fiancee, boyfriend/girlfriend, partner or...

Founder Personal

asked Jan 14 '10 at 09:25

Steve Wilkinson
2,744 points

I "saved" $40 per month in fees for a payroll service by doing everything myself. Even though I spent quite a bit of time dealing with tax forms instead of my product, I still made some mistakes...

User Experience

asked Dec 9 '09 at 00:52

Jason Cianchette
511 points

This is general guidance that you've found is key in achieving success. Can be marketing related, funding, technology, hiring, anything. If you could just pick 3 that you think have held up over...

Entrepreneurs

asked Oct 22 '09 at 02:23

Chris
4,214 points

What do you think some of the most unhelpful startup myths are? Things that new entrepreneurs should be warned about before they start working on their startup. What advice would you give a new...

Tips

asked Oct 27 '11 at 21:41

Susan Jones
4,128 points

I work as a software engineer at Big Software Company X, and have been hacking away on the side at my own mobile app for the past 2 years, which is publicly available. It does decently well,...

Acquisition

asked Feb 7 '11 at 13:22

Anon
228 points

I want to know is there any blogs or websites introducing some of new websites? New start-up websites are always looking for report and introduction by other famous websites. As we know,...

Marketing Website Promotion Micro Startup

asked Oct 24 '11 at 06:30

Anlai
375 points

I have a very new solo startup that doesn't make any money (yet...), but it's time to get a "real job" so that I can pay the bills. I'm very proud of the work I did on my startup and think that it...

Hiring Employees

asked Oct 16 '09 at 00:47

Neil
318 points

OKCupid wrote their own web server. Isn't the technology stack basically a commodity at this point? They serve a lot of people and want to be fast, but there are very large companies that use MSFT...

Technology

asked Mar 10 '11 at 07:18

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

I am working on my small software startup from my home office (Austin, TX). I have been thinking about the possibility of getting some office space or even shared office space at places like...

Office Space

asked Jan 23 '10 at 12:44

Ricardo
4,815 points

I develop and sell iPhone apps. I've released one app, and decided to build a few more, in parallel. I thought about outsourcing some of the coding, so I went on Elance and posted some jobs there....

Bootstrapped Outsourcing

asked Aug 6 '12 at 05:54

Black Rider
297 points

I built a small web app based on the freemium model. Free accounts are free forever, paid accounts have 3 tiers: 5, 15 and 25 bucks a month. I'm the only person behind the app, 100% self funded....

Advertising Micro Startup

asked Nov 18 '10 at 01:33

Deb
314 points

I have a paid job and it takes most of the daytime. After that I am back home and when all the home things are done there's a couple of hours left for startup work. Quite often I go to bed at...

Time Management Productivity

asked Sep 22 '10 at 21:46

Art
350 points

My co-founder and I will soon launch a micro ISV. Our current agreement states that we split ownership 50-50. However, since we reached the ownership agreement the amount of work we have put into...

Co-Founder Contract Partner

asked Oct 29 '09 at 21:29

Steve French
621 points