Questions

I have been building a web service over the last year, and I have recently been in discussions with an established international company, on customising and licensing my web service to sell to a...

License Revenue

asked Oct 14 '13 at 13:24

Evil Raat
116 points

I have an opportunity to purchase a company. We're still working on the purchase price, but let's assume $100K for purposes of discussion. I do not have $100K. I would need to find an investor to...

Investors Valuation Purchasing Angel Investors

asked Mar 31 '14 at 17:58

Carson McComas
1,023 points

A huge topic for sure, but does anyone have any stories or input about making great content for your website? I'm talking about the kind of content that encourages large numbers of tailored...

Marketing

asked Jan 1 '10 at 20:57

Benjamin Wootton
1,667 points

One summer when I was in college I worked as an intern for a spinoff company started by a professor, developing a new technology. I had worked for this professor on the same idea while it was still...

Investors

asked Aug 21 '11 at 20:37

Some Ee
16 points

I am launching a new product this week. Basically, it's an educational series of PDFs and video instructions. Not a membership site, but more like a multimedia ebook. Since this is the first...

Customer Feedback Selling

asked Aug 28 '12 at 07:39

Jeff Gaudette
45 points

We're a small SaaS provider for child welfare agencies and even though we have been in business for five years and offer one of the most robust case management solutions, we have a problem with...

Partnerships

asked Oct 18 '12 at 00:26

Zasyatkin
16 points

What are some ways to utilize LinkedIn to grow your Saas sales? In terms of social media, everyone seems to be fixated on Twitter and Facebook, even though they are likely not the right channel for...

Social Media Saas Linkedin

asked Mar 31 '14 at 20:42

Joseph Brown
17 points

I am launching a startup (who isnt :) ) and while I am not planning on looking for outside funding, I'd like to leave the option on the table in the event that I catch a tiger by the tail (meaning...

Incorporation Legal Accounting

asked Jun 19 '10 at 01:00

Ev Conrad
561 points

My team and I are very capable (we launched our site in short time its getting updated frequently) but this is our first real startup and we do not have any sort of famous reputation (like...

Funding Entrepreneurs Reputation

asked Apr 1 '11 at 03:51

Adam Gent
186 points

I'm the owner of this site and the product offered there. As you can see, the current price is $29.95. It is very cheap compared to most web scrapers like this. There are two reasons why I want...

Pricing Software

asked Apr 6 '11 at 12:42

Jsoldi
118 points

I am launching some SaaS later next week that will be directly competing with someone who has a monopoly in the space. We will (hopefully) be cheaper, more features, better support and more...

Marketing Competition Saas

asked Aug 11 '11 at 04:59

Nextgenneo
327 points

My partner and I started the company 7 years ago. Organically grown, After 2 years he left to his home country in the pretext of developing and helping me. While I managed everything here, he was...

Partnership

asked Sep 10 '11 at 01:14

Frustrated Disappointed
16 points

Two of us came together to work on an idea for a web startup. We end up killing the initial product and a third person joined. A new product is built and launched. It happens that I'm the...

Getting Started Equity Legal Website Partnerships

asked Jan 19 '13 at 12:53

Nyxynyx
193 points

We are working at our MVP (we can develop app, server & graphic ). We got a business model but no business plan because we don't have a marketing specialist. There's one incubator program...

Getting Started Incubators Investors

asked Mar 30 '13 at 10:27

Leonardo
16 points

With talented people being so hard to find, why do startups still struggle for months trying to hire someone in their city?

Recruiting Hiring Remote

asked Mar 31 '14 at 21:12

Pablo Rosa
19 points

So I was thinking of finding a connection to an angel group, but as it turns out one of the funded companies in there portfolio is a similar (but not direct) competitor. The platform / idea is...

Angel Investors

asked May 6 '11 at 03:43

Nick
1,171 points

I've created a series of mobile games that could be effectively re-branded with products of large corporations. I'm an independent developer and already have a generic one being sold and can use it...

Partnerships NDA Mobile Apps

asked Nov 24 '11 at 07:39

Old Mc Stopher
135 points

It turns out that Intuit does online credit card processing. See here. What do people think about their services? How do they compare to Google Checkout or PayPal? Are there any horror stories?

Payments Credit Cards

asked Feb 23 '10 at 11:46

Joseph Turian
895 points

I need to open a merchant account to work with authorize.net. I am looking for one that is US based and will accept a reverse auction type of website. My original plan was to go with cdgcommerce...

Payments Merchant Account

asked Oct 6 '10 at 03:19

Sk24iam
344 points

I'm trying to understand how similarities in trademarks are dealt with. To take an example (that I used in a previous unrelated question), assuming a trademark existed for "BodyLife", a company...

Legal Naming Trademark Domain

asked Oct 19 '10 at 20:47

J Delage
277 points