Questions

Question: Can a lazy entrepreneur/perfectionist make it? I am 50, single, and after 15 years have built a very nice sole prop web design business. I became more disciplined last year and might...

Work Life Time Management Fulltime

asked Aug 11 '11 at 10:30

Randy
249 points

I'm Founder to a new online application/website. We have made modest progress in the past 6 months (just over 150 member sign ups). Given that we were in beta for the first couple of months, I...

Marketing Strategy

asked Sep 26 '11 at 11:53

Richard H.
175 points

I need to prepare a financial/cashflow/budget plan for my startup. Can anyone offer suggestions about what items I should include or exclude? Are there any 'templates' available for preparing this...

Finance Planning Budget

asked Feb 24 '12 at 18:32

Ben Cornwell
16 points

The Lean Start-up methodology seems to make some implicit assumptions (such as about the number of available customers) that, IMHO, do apply well to B2C but not so much to B2B. Can anyone point me...

B2B Lean

asked Mar 11 '12 at 23:23

Michael Hausenblas
118 points

My associate and I are doing a website and we have absolutely no cash. Altough, we made a demo, "a prototype" of our website. Would that demo and a solid pitch/business plan convince an angel...

Angel Investors Bootstrap

asked May 15 '12 at 21:24

Younès
120 points

I started out with a business background and have some experience in UX design. But the technical side is not my greatest strength.Should I spend time in learning how to code? How important is it...

Founders Code Startups

asked Apr 2 '14 at 14:58

Jeffrey Pettit
19 points

I want to make a global social network, in which users can search for nearby users. What is the preferred way to allow users to easily specify where they are located? Zip code would be accurate,...

Profile Geography Social Network

asked Nov 12 '09 at 16:20

Joseph Turian
895 points

I am planning to use the name of a book (about 3-4 yrs old) as the tag line of my website. Its three words long. What are the IP issues here, how do i know if i can use it legally or if the author...

Legal Intellectual Property

asked Feb 16 '10 at 10:44

Syed
445 points

(Incoming wall of text) I'm a 27-year-old recent college (under)graduate (computer science) who's currently unemployed and having a heck of a time finding a job. I have what I believe is a decent...

Funding Website

asked Jun 21 '11 at 11:50

M Harrison
63 points

I know there are bunch of conferences where you can demo your application to a wider audience. e.g Techcrunch, demo.com, launch.com etc Is there any site that maintains a calendar of all these...

Conferences

asked Dec 8 '11 at 09:50

Nilesh
420 points

I'm the CTO of a SAAS startup oriented towards non-technical internet users in the 40-65 age demographic and we're preparing for our initial launch. Naturally, much of our conversation has shifted...

Marketing Equity

asked Mar 3 '13 at 07:29

Grant H.
68 points

Can anyone point me to a blog post with hard metrics? I'm referring to seals like this: https://store.truste.com/privacy_services_aff/

Website Conversion

asked Mar 12 '10 at 13:18

Eric
352 points

We're not really a startup, but we're still a small (9 employees + 1 part time sales), growing company and we finally need some CRM software. Our Owner has been using and loving MS's Business...

Software Customer Support CRM

asked Jan 7 '12 at 04:18

Karen
116 points

Question: How do you prevent a situation where you have to produce work-product work first and get client feedback before getting on the right track to meet their needs? Are there techniques to...

Management Customers Project Management Design Web Design

asked Oct 18 '12 at 10:34

Daniel Skowro?Ski
18 points

A couple of questions regarding base annual raises: What would you suggest is a typical yearly salary increase for engineers in the bay area? Should you make it standard for the entire tech...

Salary Performance

asked Feb 9 '14 at 15:53

Sofine Håkonsen
16 points

There's a lot of criticism of freemium in the startup community, but in 2009, some of my favourite large software companies moved towards, rather than away from it. Atlassian started their $10...

Sales Freemium

asked Jan 12 '10 at 07:41

Benjamin Wootton
1,667 points

I am starting a company without enough money to pay a second person a salary, but I need the help. I've found someone who seems great - his previous work is beautiful, he has already done some good...

Co-Founder Incorporation Stock Options

asked Oct 6 '10 at 06:30

Riley
193 points

New member. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! I'm a first time Founder to a start up. We pushed the online application off the shelf as a prototype and have some traction with 150 users. 1.0...

Co-Founder

asked Sep 21 '11 at 05:31

Richard H.
175 points

All, I run a contract engineering firm, and I'm considering taking stock in some of my clients in return for reduced rates. I feel comfortable doing this given the continued level of income from...

Contract LLC Stock Options

asked May 8 '10 at 01:31

Xkenneth
140 points

I thought one of the benefits of starting an online business is not having to purchase liability insurance. It turns out I was wrong. Is there a standard list that shows the type of insurance...

Insurance

asked Jun 3 '10 at 13:14

Yasmine
206 points