Questions

Which will cover issues like, things I will need to know in advance, technical difficulties, how to scale/deal with increased load, marketing strategies even?! etc etc. I love Getting Real by...

Resources

asked Apr 4 '10 at 20:50

Mohammad
136 points

Why did the Trello team decide to lunch as a general platform for many different use cases and not as a specialized product for a specific vertical? https://trello.com/

Web 2.0 Product Management Product Launch QA

asked Sep 15 '11 at 02:09

Tomer London
16 points

I often read the suggestion to validate a business idea doing a marketing campaign (Adwords, Facebook...) and leading to a "sales" page for a product that doesn't exist yet and check if there...

Marketing Validation Landing Page

asked Sep 24 '11 at 22:36

Danmaz74
381 points

My company is a U.S. C-Corp and we have recently created a stock option plan that allows for both ISO and NSO option grants. We have a foreign contractor located in China who does work for the...

Foreign Stock Options Contractor

asked Jun 1 '12 at 08:47

Tricia Yee
16 points

Is there a point to trying to outreach to early-stage VCs when AngelList is far more convenient for startups?

Funding Venture Capital Investors Seed Funding Angellist

asked Mar 2 '14 at 03:39

Janet Johnson
55 points

I am about to create an S Corporation for liability and tax purposes, and I wanted to get a general feel for a tax question before asking an attorney or CPA about it. I have a day job, for which I...

Tax Corporation

asked Apr 25 '11 at 02:32

Poundifdef
114 points

I am estimating the total amount I need to spend to get things started the right way, but I can't figure out how much I should allocate for accounting and legal services. My startup will be...

Legal Costs Accounting

asked Jun 12 '11 at 19:09

Mario Caropreso
36 points

I'm trying to look at some existing business-cases/feasibility studies to get an idea of what all to include and how to approach it. I'm sure there is no need to reinvent the wheel, but it seems...

Business Plan Business

asked Oct 25 '11 at 15:50

Ph D
422 points

I am looking to provide rental items online, however it is important that I can take a deposit that will be returned after the usage of the item. I am aware of capture delay although my...

Ecommerce Payments Entrepreneurs

asked May 4 '12 at 02:02

Tom
116 points

I'm trying to figure out how to monetize my open source contributions on GitHub.Does anyone have any experience with selling branded shwag to people who use your repo?What other ways can I make...

Monetization Revenue Open Source

asked Mar 2 '14 at 13:35

Brian Daniels
45 points

I love working for my current company. The work is challenging and fun, the people are amazing, I've been given lots of opportunity, and it's just an overall great work environment. The...

Career Salary Compensation Large Companies

asked Jun 25 '11 at 12:28

Dragoon
16 points

I'm in very early stages of pursuing a business idea I really like. Usually I think being stealthy is a bad idea, but since the development stage will take a very long time I prefer to stay quiet,...

Lean MVP Validation Tech Stealth

asked Mar 27 '14 at 00:31

LaserBear
100 points

I have been approached by someone, who I'll call "Big Executive", who is recruiting a small number of people for a Startup. My particular role would be 1 of a few to develop a software system. I've...

Co-Founder Risk

asked Nov 11 '09 at 21:29

Dan Mc Grath
118 points

So you are about to start contacting companies about licensing your product/technology. What would be the general elements of the presentation deck? I know what I've done in the past but am...

Partner Development Business Licensing

asked Feb 9 '10 at 07:03

Chris
4,214 points

What does it entail to form LLC in Nevada if I live outside Nevada? I would like to benefit from Nevada's tax/business-friendly laws. I would be the sole founder a software business. The...

LLC Incorporation Legal Tax

asked Feb 26 '10 at 16:16

Bill Paetzke
397 points

I'm starting a small business and have decided to form an S-Corp. Like many, my goal in forming an S-Corp is to avoid limitless personal liability and to take advantage of the (potential) tax...

Incorporation Investment Accounting

asked Jan 30 '11 at 09:30

Mcohen75
157 points

I am developing software that will be useful during search engine optimisation of a website. This software is a desktop java application. I have heard that (specifically) Java applications can...

Licensing Software Licensing

asked Aug 20 '11 at 00:16

User893664
18 points

Today I received a mail from Google which state that your app has been removed from Google play due to copyright infringement. The person who register this copyright issue is a person who run his...

Recommendations Application Copyright

asked Jan 29 '13 at 16:38

Sunny
116 points

I'm starting a newsletter about Japan and I'm not sure whether it should have an online archive of past issues. If yes, only available to subscribers, or widely publicized all over the net? I...

Email Newsletter

asked Dec 21 '10 at 03:26

Philip Seifi
132 points

I'm thinking about entering into a business partnership with someone. The work product will be a revenue-generating web-based service. We plan to both sign a legal business partnership document,...

Partnership

asked Dec 7 '11 at 06:40

Scott
116 points