Questions

Based on the discussion here, Houston was listed as one of the startup friendly state in USA. After doing some more research about the city of Houston I am very keen with Houston as it seems to be...

Location

asked Jan 5 '10 at 10:13

Jpartogi
1,342 points

What is the difference between advertising and marketing?

Marketing Entrepreneurs Advertising

asked Aug 25 '10 at 12:00

Steven
1 point

How do you distribute the shares among participants of IT-startup (Web-system)? What is the common world practice? For example, there are two participants: the person, who made idea and will do...

Development Distribution

asked Apr 15 '11 at 05:39

Amber
118 points

I run a small web development company. I take on a few clients and do much of the work myself. Typically I build e-commerce shops or basic wordpress sites. Sometimes the development is beyond the...

Management Outsourcing Billing Sub Contractors

asked Jun 12 '13 at 19:42

Start It
18 points

An open source project I designed & developed as my thesis in grad school has been continuing development through a non profit organization that hired me full time. Throughout my work there,...

Getting Started Legal Open Source

asked Jul 4 '13 at 01:54

Kim Prisin
16 points

I have a couple of features in my product that are really important but, as it stands, are not fully implemented / designed or integrated. At what point do I remove them from the product? I...

Products Management Apps

asked Dec 31 '09 at 18:01

Sam Saffron
432 points

So I started a small business offering a service that is provided through-out the month and is billed monthly. This service could be stopped at any point, but I want to make sure the following are...

Contract

asked May 25 '11 at 10:40

Geo
268 points

I'm starting a small business (just me, no employees) doing graphics that can be purchased digitally and/or the originals mailed, as well as live graphic recording and graphic facilitation, and...

Business Travel DBA

asked Oct 13 '12 at 13:18

Justwanttogetstarted
16 points

As a growing start up, we need to plan for new people in every deparment (some of these are just 1 person, but future departments). So Sales has its plan to double sales this year; meanwhile other...

Hiring Planning Scale

asked Jun 1 '11 at 07:51

Paroon Chadha
61 points

I'm a web developer running a startup in development and i'm looking for a sales/business relationships guy who can do marketing and contact businesses that we'll promote their products. How much...

Equity

asked Jun 19 '11 at 20:52

Ryan
139 points

How do I declare my income if all of it comes from paypal ? Most accountants in Portugal (where I live and where this company will be based) don't know how it works... Do I declare it only when I...

Ecommerce Legal Tax Income

asked Sep 24 '11 at 09:04

João Pinto Jerónimo
118 points

I helped co-found a company (with 2 others) that isn't in the black yet, I've personally put in at least 30k of my own money and have been in charge of most things. I've recently announced my...

Founder Equity

asked Feb 22 '12 at 12:08

Kevin
16 points

I would like to know your views on fighting clones. For example look at these web pages. polldaddy.com/signup sissurvey.net/signup.aspx It is pretty clear that Polldaddy launched poll service...

Software Competition

asked Oct 13 '09 at 18:23

User625
18 points

I am involved with a startup that has a very unique structure. We started as friends, all working in our spare time, never intending for it to become a business. Eventually, it started catching on...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Vesting

asked May 31 '12 at 14:32

Lbc
16 points

If you were approached by an idea guy (one with not much money), and lets say that the idea itself was an 8 to 10...what would you consider acceptable terms to join the start up? If you could give...

Getting Started Co-Founder Development Partnerships

asked Aug 24 '12 at 09:57

Derek
164 points

I can't seem to get a straight answer when I call the USPTO

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Dec 1 '10 at 09:59

Startupgirl
26 points

Was wondering if anyone knew of any site(s) out there that specialize in QAing sites for start-ups? Essentially doing quality assurance to test and find defects.

Testing

asked Jan 24 '11 at 06:28

John
161 points

I am a Product designer with 25 years in the field. I also have an extensive array of skill sets as well as facility. Computerized Milling, Engineering and Development software as well as Rapid...

Legal Partnerships

asked Apr 11 '11 at 04:51

Dug
16 points

What is the US law that deals with regulations for incorporated entities? In India, we have the Indian Companies Act, 1956. I am an entrepreneur. I want to know if I can register my business as a...

Incorporation Registration

asked May 15 '11 at 04:32

Water Cooler V2
139 points

I'm trying to be as specific as possible here: We are a Startup 5 months on the go with three co-founders. Since none of us can truly code we need to employ our first Web-developer and we have...

Equity Founders Compensation Shares

asked Dec 20 '12 at 03:08

Clemens Kemper
16 points