Questions

A friend of mine recommended 3 years worth of savings in order to start bootstrapping for my self-funded startup. Does this seem reasonable? I had previously been working towards a goal of 1 year's...

Bootstrapped Funding

asked Dec 15 '10 at 13:50

David In Dakota
153 points

We have an idea for a website. I am a software developer, but I don't want to spend all my time creating this site that won't sell or be marketable or popular whatsoever, and make us no...

Ideas Angel Investors

asked Nov 9 '10 at 04:47

Scott
165 points

For small startups of 3 or less owners: How much money do you spend on accountants per year? What is a reasonable amount? do you recommend "doing it yourself"? does it matter the quality of the...

Accounting Accountants Fees

asked Sep 29 '10 at 06:14

Gush
53 points

I've been through some pretty brutal experiences recently with venture capitalists and I'm looking into ways I can start a company without VC money. Has anyone out there used consulting to...

Bootstrapped Funding Consulting

asked Jun 24 '10 at 11:33

Craig Daniel
223 points

I have an algorithm for doing OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in a way that no one has ever done before. I've built rudimentary prototype software and I've tested my algorithm against the...

Outsourcing Seed Funding

asked Apr 12 '10 at 08:08

Amichai
241 points

Can anyone recommend a place where I can download standard founders-agreement for a tech-startup? Preferably, it should include something about founders vesting (e.g. founders will become diluted...

Legal Founders Agreements

asked Jan 21 '10 at 18:59

Murkin
184 points

We do have a product without demo, we only give out evaluation copies to potential clients and people who'd like to do a review the product. It's a long story why we don't have a demo, suffice to...

Marketing Launch Release Bloggers

asked Jan 20 '10 at 07:54

The Dictator
2,305 points

I am putting together a privacy policy and terms of service. I have read these two posts: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/2783/where-to-start-writing-a-terms-of-service-privacy-policy...

Legal

asked Jan 3 '10 at 15:55

Matt
460 points

I'm working with two other partners to get a SaaS startup off the ground. I worked on this thing slowly, mostly on my own, for about two years before approaching my partners. As a background, I...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Equity Founders

asked Dec 23 '09 at 18:21

Brianz
223 points

A few of us in Waterloo are planning to launch a new co-working space, and we've done a lot of the ground work, but I'm looking for any non-obvious tips and suggestions from veterans. If you have...

Location Office

asked Dec 22 '09 at 04:54

Joseph Fung
1,542 points

Is it a copyright infringement to copy a user interface? I'm not talking about the specific graphics, but the layout and the way users interact with the application. For example, Blippy 's UI...

Legal Copyright User Interface

asked Dec 16 '09 at 02:31

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

I currently run a two person web development team. My partner and I offer Ruby on Rails programming for our clients (small companies). We typically charge $75/hr for most of our clients but we have...

Pricing Consulting

asked Nov 27 '09 at 16:31

Aac
85 points

My subscription-based application is going to be written in Ruby on Rails; I have two routes I can go as far as billing is concerned: I can use a hosted service that takes care of managing the...

Payments Saas

asked Nov 20 '09 at 03:06

Wayne M
211 points

The number of press release services out there is mind boggling. I am an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) with a niche software program, and I'd like to send out a Press Release to the software...

Marketing Software Recommendations

asked Nov 13 '09 at 16:15

Lkessler
1,471 points

Entrepreneurs tend to have great ideas but struggle to bring them to life. This seems to be partly due to not having the right skills to move beyond the idea and into the marketplace. Am I off base...

Entrepreneurs Leadership

asked Nov 8 '09 at 01:13

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

I've long wondered why social marketers are so focused on Facebook fan pages. In much the same way that the AOL Keyword was the flavor of the week years ago; it strikes me as the medium of choice...

Marketing Facebook

asked Oct 20 '09 at 09:22

Paul O'brien
521 points

What are the proper ways to ask Top Notch bloggers to write about your Start Up? What kind of "Bribes" (if any) are exceptable? Are there certain bounderies that need to be respected when trying...

Blog

asked Oct 19 '09 at 17:39

Adam
61 points

I am currently finding myself in a situation where my startup is just getting off the ground and we have the perfect company name. Unfortunately, the domain we want is taken. Furthermore, while...

Web

asked Oct 16 '09 at 15:39

Jb Lesage
70 points

Co-founder is someone we really trust. But still there is a possibility for dispute. Is it better to put everything in writing and sign it before starting startup? Is it worth to pay legal fee...

Contract Legal Founders Agreement

asked Oct 12 '09 at 23:47

Web Thinker
430 points

A CTO can often be spread very thin, since they often have to run the product, engineering, IT, and anything else that is tech related (salesforce.com setup too). Do they have to contribute to...

CTO Code

asked Oct 10 '09 at 11:29

Craig Daniel
223 points