Questions

We signed a lease on office space but recently hit a tough stretch funding-wise and are trying to figure out a way to get out of lease as quickly as possible. Any suggestions for this? I guess if...

Funding Office

asked Dec 9 '09 at 06:08

Tommy Maddox
156 points

If your start-up is very early on how soon should your start-up leave a home office to leave for a office building? or should it be based on how many people are working with you?

Getting Started Office Office Space

asked Jul 8 '11 at 20:26

Johnathan Kulp
16 points

I was reading an article in a VC's blog and I found this explanation about venture debt: "The terms are usually three years, interest only, balloon payment, with warrants for the equity...

Funding Venture Capital Debt

asked Jul 29 '11 at 04:08

Sd Reyes
156 points

I thought I'd ask your advice on something. I'm bringing in a negotiation coach to do a 60 min live presentation in Jan for the local audience of wedding pros. I've been the speaker at these types...

Events Sponsorship

asked Dec 3 '10 at 02:49

Dina Eisenberg
16 points

For the past year I've been working on a recipe-sharing startup called Fridge to Food based on the idea of crowd sourcing recipes. We went to public beta a few months ago and I've been doing rounds...

Community Beta Crowdsourcing

asked Dec 22 '10 at 04:13

Daniel Bingham
148 points

Basically as the title suggests, the tax situation is getting grayer over time as new business models emerge. We are considering one where the app is hosted "somewhere", the company is currently...

Payments Company Tax Setup

asked Mar 16 '11 at 12:18

Robin Vessey
8,394 points

Guy Kawasaki in Art of the Start talks about having two decks, an investor pitch deck and also a sales deck. Have you found this to be useful? I'm about to go pitch to 2 - 3 potential customers as...

Sales Selling

asked Apr 30 '11 at 02:14

Nick
1,171 points

I have seen many website which create flash banner ads online and you can directly download the customized flash banner, thought it is not a new business idea I feel I can add some unique feature...

Business Plan Market Analysis Revenue Market Research

asked Aug 16 '11 at 03:05

Yuvraj
57 points

My name is Stephen. This is my first time at your site so I'll explain where I'm at with my product and hopefully I can get a little feedback on what you might think is the best "next step". 1.)...

Funding Registration

asked Mar 17 '12 at 23:07

Stephen
16 points

Classic Chicken or Egg Dilemma: I need to raise funds to build the system I have designed. I need the system built to generate revenue from my customer. I need to be generating revenue to raise...

Getting Started Funding Business Model Developers

asked Aug 14 '13 at 14:36

W00dc4ip
18 points

Quite a lot of websites (glassdoor for example) give access to data about jobs, salaries, etc. through a REST API. So basically I can make an API call, get results and show the data on my website....

Data Request API Web Services

asked Oct 14 '13 at 04:54

Victor
137 points

I'm thinking of starting a business. It would be a website that would act much like a social-bookmarking site. It would be funded by selling data about websites and this data would be collected...

Legal Data

asked Mar 11 '11 at 18:13

Dan Waterworth
118 points

I've developed an application with a couple of friends, and we want to publish it on various app stores. This requires a business bank account and VAT registration, and after some reading , the...

Getting Started UK Legal Administration

asked Sep 25 '13 at 22:33

Ed Hinchliffe
118 points

This is for someone who is perfectly positioned to start a business (IT graduate, no expenses, saving all of his money, living at home and unchallenged at work). BUT.... he doesn't have any...

Ideas B2B Business

asked Mar 31 '14 at 15:30

Clay Nichols
737 points

This stems from answers to my other question on profit/equity share when taking on a partner. Some of the answers suggested that a profit share is suitable when taking on an employee, and equity...

Partner Equity

asked Oct 5 '10 at 18:45

Pate
306 points

I own a small software company, which has it's website on a .COM-domain ( jitbit.com ) Should I register .ORG/.NET/.BIZ/.INFO as well? "jitbit.net/jitbit.biz/jitbit.info/jitbit.org" or it's just a...

Naming Domain

asked Feb 24 '11 at 01:55

Jitbit
267 points

What kind of day to day tasks does a CTO deal with at a seed-funded startup (seed, not series A) that has ~4 software engineers? I'm looking to apply for such positions on AngelList and curious...

CTO Startup

asked Mar 31 '14 at 17:12

James Thompson
21 points

A friend and I formed an Oregon LLC in 2008 for an online business. Now we're up and running and both working on it full-time. Now we've both moved to Texas and want to re-form as a Texas company...

LLC Tax Founders Vesting

asked Jun 21 '11 at 03:39

Sean
134 points

I'm a non-EU entrepreneur running a startup in EU. I'm looking for a country where I can immigrate to as self-employed. Which countries have favorable rules? Short application processing times, not...

Entrepreneurs

asked Oct 26 '11 at 20:00

Brown And Friendly
43 points

Sorry for the long question, but I promise it's a good read as it includes a challenging topic on growing a bootstrapped business, which I imagine applies to many of you as well. I look forward to...

Business Model Saas Selling Business

asked Mar 18 '12 at 01:19

Novice18
18 points