Questions

Currently hosting is our second biggest expense (after payroll). The question of buying hardware or buying your own is probably a common dilemma for SaaS companies. At the moment, I am not...

Cost Benefit Hosting Lease

asked Dec 30 '09 at 09:19

Oleg Barshay
2,091 points

So, an acuqaintence of mine who is someone whose opinion I respect on the nitty gritty in the dirt of startups just had a new baby. I was thinking about how distracting that can be. How the new...

Work Life

asked May 17 '11 at 12:18

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I have a working prototype for an enterprise software. It is basically a very niche product catering a subset of the engineering firm. Now, what I need, is to validate the market as soon and as...

Software B2B Enterprise Market Research

asked Jun 5 '12 at 14:19

Graviton
871 points

One reason I can understand is that they don't want competitors to find out the features of their product hence releasing their own product before they get a chance to release it themselves. I...

Marketing Launch Strategy

asked Jan 27 '10 at 10:30

Syed
445 points

I have noticed that for the past few months, I have been wasting a lot of time on needless things. How do you keep yourself focused in your business?

Time Management Business

asked Dec 11 '10 at 09:55

Frank
2,079 points

does anyone know where a great database of free icons would be that I can use for a new website I am creating? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Website

asked Aug 11 '10 at 13:10

Jim Shook
417 points

I'm starting to work on a new project and I'm going to name it with a word that ends with so. The idea of registering a Somalia top-level domain (.so ) for the project really excites me, and the...

Domain

asked Feb 16 '11 at 06:19

Achairapart
129 points

So it comes down to this. I'm not suited to work for someone. I have had an extreme entrepreneurial spirit for as far as I can remember. I need to be doing my own thing, calling my own shots, and...

Entrepreneurs Google Business Plan

asked Feb 10 '11 at 11:36

Gotmssbm
31 points

If I come up with an improvement to an existing product, how do I protect myself when sharing it, and get some of the revenues the idea generates? There are many times when I look at an existing...

Products Ideas Technology Patent

asked Oct 14 '09 at 16:10

Ron Ga
2,181 points

Here is my weird idea about startup Business Model. Facebook, Twitter and most of all other web startups valuation is based on number of users. Then why user don't get cut? What if you give cut to...

Ideas Business Model

asked Oct 29 '09 at 00:49

Web Thinker
430 points

In my job hunt, it's incredibly common for me to run into startups that have say 3 people and then have the CTO tell me "We just closed a round of funding, so we're looking to hire 3 or 4 more...

Hiring Venture Capital Employees

asked Jan 23 '11 at 18:57

Jason
139 points

I want to start a software company based mainly on web application development and designing. So my question is, to whom should I contact in a software company to get projects or how can i contact...

Getting Started Software

asked Nov 8 '12 at 15:26

Agnihotram Srikanth
29 points

I am feeling the effect of seeing DISQUS on certain blogs in that it makes me more likely to comment. Is this true for others here? Does any blog/site owner have data on increased comment counts...

Incentives Recommendations Website

asked Feb 22 '10 at 01:27

Eric
352 points

I'm finding a resource for writing a TOC for my app that uses Google Analytics to analyze content traffic. I don't hire a lawyer and just plan to copy from someone else. Could you please point out...

Analytics Google Iphone Terms And Conditions Mobile Apps

asked Nov 30 '11 at 00:45

Killua
68 points

About the Algorithm:I've invented a brand new method for sorting data in a very fasts way which is faster than QuickSort itself. This algorithm can be used for huge data manipulation which is very...

Legal

asked Feb 4 '12 at 03:55

Nabil Abdulaal
29 points

Has anyone ever had a start-up which was covered by TC? If so, how much traffic does it send your way? Have people seen a significant SEO boost from their links to their site? Is their coverage...

Marketing PR

asked Mar 27 '11 at 16:15

Genadinik
1,821 points

I am a software developer. I have a good idea and I'd like to create a startup. I am planning to invite one or two of my colleagues as co-founders. Problems: 1) Free time I realised it is very...

Getting Started Ideas Business

asked Sep 6 '12 at 07:42

Mel
68 points

Please only answer if you have personal experience with this topic. I've been hearing of more and more companies that choose to openly display their finances and/or employee wages to all employees...

Culture Finance Salary

asked Feb 28 '13 at 02:25

Jeremiah Prummer
441 points

A certain candidate applied for a certain company. The company asked the candidate to write some code for the interview process, and it turned out to be quite well written and could qualify as a...

Intellectual Property

asked Sep 6 '13 at 15:36

Somesh Mukherjee
149 points

I'm a software developer with MANY personal ideas. Many of my ideas get implemented by other people throughout the years, which means they are viable. A life style I learned about is...

Entrepreneur

asked Feb 16 '12 at 02:52

Nur Ne
186 points