Questions

I've recently been headhunted by a startup a year old which I am very interested in leaving my current position in a large established business in the same industry for. There are a number of...

Hiring Equity Salary

asked Dec 25 '11 at 08:39

Scotland
51 points

Component vendors like Syncfusion and Infragistics often make source code available to their customers (at an additional fee). Some benefits of this would appear to be: Enable customers to make...

Pricing License Legal

asked Oct 13 '11 at 07:09

Paul Stovell
204 points

We have a very important employee at our startup who has been consistently abusing sick days. Unfortunately being a small company we would have a very hard time replacing him at this point but his...

Management Employees

asked Oct 1 '11 at 02:18

Lloyd
53 points

I have seen more and more websites allowing you to log in with your facebook or google account. I am in the process of building a new website and I am wondering what the pro's and con's of doing...

Google Facebook Social

asked Sep 13 '11 at 02:02

Don Tarinelli
51 points

Foreward : Assume the beta release had been executed with lean a startup model and had generated impressive traction within a single city launch. In preparation for investment proposals for a web...

Cost Business Plan Seed Funding Expenses

asked Aug 4 '11 at 15:47

Will Ko
268 points

We get a lot of questions about dividing equity and for good reason. Dividing up your startup's equity creates a lot of heart burn for all of us. It's a tremendously stressful affair if you have...

Equity Founders Canon

asked Jul 22 '11 at 22:25

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

As an example, let's take Yelp. Yelp has carved out a serious niche for itself in the user review market. What if you thought you could do it better? How would you make traction in that market?...

Competition Market Opportunity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:58

Richard Des Londe
206 points

What are the advantages and disadvantages of dividing equity 49/51 vs 50/50 between partners? Edit: 51/49 feels wrong, but there may be some startup cases where it is good if you are the majority...

Equity Partnerships

asked Apr 21 '11 at 07:56

Pate
306 points

I've been thinking about a new idea I want to work on. After searching the USPTO, I found that there are many (hundreds) of patents around what I am wanting to work on, with a slew being very...

Patent Intellectual Property

asked Apr 16 '11 at 12:50

Kirk
227 points

I've been working on a startup plan, and, per the advice I've seen many times, haven't kept it a secret, but rather have talked to a lot of people about it, and gotten some good ideas and...

Ideas

asked Apr 8 '11 at 03:18

Michael C. O'connor
153 points

I never click on any Adsense ad. I hear people say they make peanuts from Adsense ads compared with the time they spend creating content. Today I was reading an eBook called Adsense Secrets 5...

Advertising Google Adsense

asked Apr 3 '11 at 13:03

Tony Henrich
283 points

I am very interested in having a better understanding of the reasons that someone should keep their project as a hobby rather than trying to make it a "start-up" What would be the non-business...

Personal Social Entrepreneur

asked Apr 1 '11 at 06:19

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

Is it realistic for a start-up to have as a component of it's business (marketing) plan -- to go viral? Is that really something you plan to happen?

Marketing

asked Mar 30 '11 at 06:50

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

StartUpAmerica was launched with much fanfare earlier this year by the White House, Steve Case, IBM, the Kaufman Foundation, and others. Goal is to find ways to help create jobs in the private...

Incubators Government Entrepreneur

asked Mar 29 '11 at 21:36

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

I am starting a company and am considering agile development, but I don't understand how a Fixed Price contract (the type I would like to use), could work. It seems like the point of Agile is to...

Pricing Contract Agile

asked Mar 14 '11 at 10:36

Skaz
254 points

My small software company ships both SaaS and downloadable versions of software. I was wondering if signing the "downloadable" apps with a code-signing certificate will improve conversions? Well,...

Software Conversion

asked Feb 11 '11 at 02:35

Jitbit
267 points

My startup's products will primarily be purchased by women, and thus I'd like to hire a sales and marketing director who is a woman. Is it against the law for me to advertise this position that I'm...

Hiring

asked Jan 5 '11 at 13:13

Jeff
51 points

We struggling for years with the best way to license our software and see two options: A) Minor service updates are free-of-charge and we only charge for each upgrade to a major new version that...

License

asked Jan 1 '11 at 21:40

Droplet
56 points

I'm a cofounder at a startup. One thing I have been thinking about alot lately is time tracking. I usually spend the day at the office, and then I get home and continue to work on more stuff. I...

Co-Founder Time Management

asked Dec 23 '10 at 17:13

Alex Cook
641 points

I run one technology startup now that takes up most/all of my time. I have another idea for a technology startup and wanted to outsource everything either through contract workers or salaried...

Getting Started Outsourcing Business

asked Dec 16 '10 at 14:55

Steve
56 points