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As a technical person, you see this a lot: "I've got this great idea to be the next $BIG_SITE. I need you to build a site for me - it should only take 3 months or so. Meanwhile, you can crash on...

Equity Legal Salary Payroll

asked Nov 15 '11 at 10:12

Ryan Wilcox
183 points

What products do you know of, products that have a Freemium model implemented well and successfully - meaning that there is significant count of paying customers in opposition to the count of...

Freemium

asked Apr 12 '10 at 02:48

Woo Yek
66 points

I have built my own web directory for a niche business market. The directory is still in its early days. I have currently kept the basic plan completely free and I am not restricting the...

Sales Business Plan

asked Aug 9 '11 at 14:10

User12567
24 points

I've been building a site for 2 years now, and am about to launch it, but the problem is I have lost all interest in doing anything with it. It is a social networking/review site in a very small...

Website Selling Business

asked Nov 15 '11 at 11:08

Jdh
182 points

A few people have asked me recently to start a business with them. In each case, the other person tells me that he's got this awesome idea for a mobile app / website / software that I should...

Negotiation Technical

asked Dec 19 '11 at 01:18

Siamii
195 points

We are launching our startup, and would like to crowdfund a beta. Since the service already exists, the users would donate, and get their accounts first before everyone else can sign up - with...

Getting Started Pricing Funding Crowdfunding

asked Nov 21 '13 at 01:18

Erik Aigner
116 points

I am looking for a VC that invests in the homeland security or access control industries... Is there a website where I can search for VC's according to the field in which they invest? I found...

Venture Capital Investment Investors

asked Feb 26 '10 at 01:11

Ron Ga
2,181 points

I have a big, hairy audacious goal of a project, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to carve out an MVP. There's a lot of potential for revenue streams, including brand marketing,...

Blog

asked Apr 3 '10 at 04:15

Aae
75 points

I remember at one point a startup will switch from offering ISO (Incentive Stock Options) to offering Non-qualified Stock Options (NSO) to employees? Can the startup decide which to offer, and...

Incentives Tax Human Resources Stock Options

asked Apr 25 '10 at 00:34

J Lynch
16 points

I have made a seed investment in a startup. What level of disclosure and updates can I expect from the company's management without getting in their way? How frequently should I receive financial...

Reports Seed Funding

asked Mar 10 '11 at 11:55

Luciano
16 points

we are 2 developers that have been working for a consultancy doing a mobile app for about a year, now we are ending our contracts. The enterprise that has contracted our actual/anterior...

Getting Started Entrepreneurs Team Profitability Cost Estimation

asked Nov 22 '11 at 14:33

Tyoc213
41 points

If I am selling to an SMB or enterprise should I have seperate agreements for license and annual maintenance /tech support?

Contract Legal

asked Feb 17 '11 at 02:56

Stacey
484 points

A company (pre-funding) wants to do a 3 month trial period with me. I received an offer for X shares of stock. How do I determine if I am properly compensated for my efforts? The value I would...

Equity Trial Compensation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 17:41

Daniel
157 points

I'm 47 years old Software Engineer/Architect, I work for very prestigious Fortune 500 company and have a 6 figure salary.. and I'm bored like the HELL... I'm sick of the politics, the bureaucracy.....

Startup Costs

asked Sep 20 '13 at 23:43

Tombee
16 points

I got interested in business models involving prediction markets and I am wondering at which point such a thing is considered gambling. Here are the cornerstones: it's a prediction market, i.e....

Legal Market

asked Apr 28 '11 at 21:56

Movingabout
16 points

I wonder what is a good conversion ratio from trial to paid for B2B SaaS which costs $10/month. Our service is about cloud management. We have conversion of 20% (20% of people end up paying at the...

Trial Conversion

asked Aug 24 '12 at 04:41

User84686
139 points

I'm in the process of evaluating resumes for a web marketing / project management position. I've never considered myself very good at interviewing. Beware, my question is multi-faceted, so don't...

Hiring Contract Employees

asked Oct 13 '09 at 13:52

Dlynton
1,057 points

Does it make sense to find a mentor who can help you out in your startup, online? He's not going to be physically present, of course. And you run the risk of him running away with your idea. But...

Getting Started Mentor

asked Apr 25 '10 at 05:53

Startup Struggler
77 points

I've been discussing with my colleagues on how best to price the school. We've come up with some really innovative solutions. -Charge per session, allowing students to skip sessions that don't...

Pricing Education

asked Jul 10 '10 at 05:42

Ryan Chatterton
921 points

I have recently begun employment in a B2B sales environment. I have only previously worked in a retail environment and have only dealt with immediate decisions on purchasing products. I am doing...

Sales Quote

asked Aug 22 '13 at 23:32

Callie
16 points