Questions

I have an idea and talked to about 14 people who have all said it's a good to great idea. Based on this positive feedback, I have built (in about a week) a very primitive semi-working prototype...

Interviews Customer Feedback Early Adopters

asked Feb 5 '13 at 12:10

Elenesski
100 points

I’ve used the following tools to get an estimate but still feel like I’m just polishing instead of verifying. So would love to hear how others have done it. Google’s key word tool for traffic...

Marketing Recommendations Research

asked Jun 16 '10 at 01:45

John Bogrand
2,210 points

I just set up a Facebook page for a totally new business along with a teaser page. The Facebook page is looking a little lost. I still have some work to do to spruce it up and give it a little more...

Advertising Facebook

asked Nov 7 '11 at 10:41

Lloyd
360 points

We're a Canadian company and are talking with a prospective client from Nigeria, Africa. We've never dealt outside of our province, let alone our country, so we're not sure if there's anything to...

International

asked Nov 29 '11 at 04:24

Mirov
384 points

We are selling specialized accounting software for real estate management companies. As you would guess, nobody changes accounting software every month, so our sales cycle is 1-2 years and we are...

Sales

asked Dec 6 '11 at 02:10

Tambet
215 points

I am the co-owner of a small web development firm. We offer Ruby on Rails programming for our clients which mostly consist of small companies. We typically charge $80-$110 per hour. For 2/3 of our...

Pricing Consulting SLA

asked Jun 18 '11 at 10:10

Aac
85 points

I work with contractors often, and of course go the W-9 + 1099 route with US-based folks. I'll be hiring a handful of part-time non-US contract developers soon (one in Brazil, one in Switzerland)....

Tax Contractor

asked Mar 15 '12 at 13:30

Bmoeskau
356 points

We're a small (but growing) consulting firm with software to be developed as a side stream (yes, I know this is an original story :)). 3 partners, equal equity. We've worked with a few people in...

Hiring Equity Employees Salary

asked Jan 16 '11 at 02:09

Sean
1,149 points

This question got me thinking about quality and the expectations of quality for your Minimum Viable Product (MVP). This may seem like a basic question but I wanted to understand the expectations...

Product Management Market Analysis User Experience MVP

asked Apr 9 '11 at 23:06

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

We develop and sell mobile software to consumers and are based in US. We sell software internationally but since it is not localized majority of our sales are in English speaking countries. I'm...

Software Customer Support International

asked Apr 28 '11 at 08:27

Subjc
116 points

Possible Duplicate: Finding out another start-up has the same idea Is there any reason to scrap a start-up, when you find out there is more competition then originally thought? My partners and I...

Competition

asked Oct 11 '11 at 05:58

Guy
16 points

I'd need some help in understanding what I need to do, admittedly I am getting into this for the first time. I am full-time employed in a privately held company in the UK. Recently, I started doing...

Employees Tax Invoice

asked Sep 4 '12 at 19:28

Diferdin
116 points

Question for all of you startups out there: What's been your greatest challenge? Or what have you needed the most help with? Creating a Business Strategy Raising Money (Finding and/or Pitching...

Getting Started Venture Capital Entrepreneurs Business Plan Business Services

asked Dec 6 '13 at 08:01

The Start Up Team
59 points

You share a brilliant idea you had with a peer (in order to get some feedback on it). And later learn that they have decided to implement it themselves!I'm already in the process of executing on it...

Ideas Competition

asked Mar 21 '14 at 00:27

Jonathan Locke
30 points

Other than google alerts... I'd like to know anytime "StarStreet" "sports stock market" "starstreetsports.com" are mentioned. Anything out there I should be using in addition to google alerts?

Analytics Tools

asked Feb 25 '10 at 16:38

Jer Levine
173 points

Groupon has been hiring sales people like crazy. Their turnover is probably very high but the sheer number of salespeople that they are adding to their company every month is something crazy to a...

Sales Hiring Salary

asked Mar 18 '11 at 23:15

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

I have been working on a project for a little over a year. This project was my partners idea, and we agreed to a percentage of the stake when it gets done. (he gets the majority) Originally, the...

Partnerships Project Conflict Of Interest

asked Jan 29 '12 at 01:21

Vigrond
130 points

We are looking to sell our business. We are a high traffic mobile site (16+ million unique visitors/month). What is the best way to get acquired? Should we use a business broker to facilitate this...

Website Business Selling

asked Dec 31 '09 at 08:42

Mike
16 points

At last I have gotten my SAAS product to a state where I can take on some customers. I believe as-it-stands it offers significant advantages over existing solutions. I am finding it incredibly...

Marketing Website

asked Jan 5 '10 at 06:58

Sam Saffron
432 points

Soccer clubs (at least in Europe) "own" their players for the duration of the contracts. These players are working for their clubs in a very similar way to employees working for startups. My...

Contract Employees Terms And Conditions

asked Sep 30 '11 at 00:21

David
1,567 points