Questions

We are a small software design and development company with expertise in the areas on facebook apps, iphone, android apps development. Most of our clients/projects have come from sites like Elance,...

Marketing Sales Software Outsourcing Entrepreneurship

asked Dec 8 '11 at 19:44

Ali
179 points

As a site owner, I often get emails from random people about doing blog posts, asking for promotions, etc. This amounts to a tiny income stream, often at random timing and rate. The transactions...

Revenue Accounting

asked May 1 '11 at 07:09

Genadinik
1,821 points

What does these mean in plain English, guessing the best way to describe it is by giving theoretical numbers for best worst case instances, though that's just my thought - I'll leave it up to you...

Funding Contract Finance Venture Capital Terms And Conditions

asked Jun 3 '11 at 01:56

Blunders .
899 points

I am an Engineering student. I have killer products for startups. Should I launch it today or should I get MBA expertise first? Please, help.

MBA

asked May 7 '12 at 04:00

Sachin Shekhar
260 points

When starting a new company we try to pick a name that is unique. However, now that business is global it's nearly impossible to pick a name that is not in use somewhere. I was wondering: What...

Trademark Name

asked Nov 8 '13 at 16:30

Alfa Zulu
116 points

Almost all tech interviews these days ask for code samples. Would it be okay for me to show them a small snippet (a file or two) of my previous employer's source code?It's nothing that could be...

Hiring Legal Interviews Code

asked Mar 9 '14 at 00:53

Patrick Stone
55 points

So you have decided to hire some interns... You don't have much time to go to a college/university and get the word out... where do you find the best interns for software development? I know of...

Hiring Interns

asked Oct 15 '09 at 08:55

Ricardo
4,815 points

For a startup that currently has no funding and wants to put a business team in place, how much equity would you give someone who would be coming on board as the CEO to take over the business side...

Compensation

asked Sep 11 '11 at 02:41

Ricky
16 points

I'm a co-founder of a 2 1/2 year old early-stage software company. The company was completely bootstrapped, no outside investing, and we have modest revenue for being such a small company (approx...

Co-Founder Exit

asked Oct 3 '11 at 06:13

Dnr
170 points

We are in the process of setting up a board structure for our startup. Everybody on the board will have their own veto rights on important matters, such as capital injection, spending limits,...

Board Management Incorporation Investors Shares

asked Sep 12 '12 at 19:27

Jaxons
16 points

I know, Evan Williams asked for donations from users while he was running Blogger.com in its early days but that was then. Is a donation button for a web app in beta tactless, in these times? what...

Funding Trial

asked Dec 28 '09 at 16:43

Eric
352 points

I'm working on defining a partnering agreement to be the technical co-founder on a SaaS startup. The founder/CEO has the experience in the service industry which we are targeting, but found that...

Partner Legal

asked Jan 3 '10 at 03:46

Torrie
230 points

Just curious how people feel about business names. Do you think the name of a company composed of the last names of the owners is "old fashion" (i.e Brown-Smith Web Services, Johnson-Nixon I.T....

Marketing Business Naming

asked Mar 6 '10 at 04:22

Big Tuna
349 points

We started our business back in July 2009 with the intentions of building websites, consulting, internet marketing, etc. Now we have changed our focus to developing a SaaS solution for a...

Development Equity Angel

asked May 9 '10 at 01:09

Csumme
146 points

Does anyone know if a USS LLC can wholly own an Indian Pvt Ltd company? I know that many countries consider LLCs to be sole proprietorships and therefore do not allow them to own Pvt Ltds. Does...

India LLC

asked Jan 1 '11 at 15:50

User6289
16 points

There are lots of answers here on OnStartups that imply or even outright state that one has to be obsessed to succeed with a startup. When I see "obsession", I hear "imbalance". Is it possible to...

Balance

asked May 12 '11 at 05:35

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

What are some good ways to do low level idea validation before you get into the thick of developing a business concept? In other words, I am trying to find a system to prevent my habit of chasing...

Ideas Validation

asked Apr 4 '12 at 09:52

Amin Brodie
39 points

After several pitches we've kinda positive of closing our seed-funding (amount X) round, which is being funded by my family friends. However, very (un)fortunately for us, the seed investors aren't...

Seed Funding

asked Dec 26 '12 at 07:05

User1798374
16 points

So me and 2 other cofounders spent a year building a product together, however it got no traction. We have a ery expensive buyout price however, but I don't think it makes sense to buy them out. So...

Co-Founder Equity Failure Startups

asked Oct 22 '14 at 21:10

User34175
16 points

What are some guidelines or tests I can use to figure out if I have a chance at getting patent for an idea when there are similar, but not identical, patents out there? I don't know how to best...

Patent

asked Nov 11 '11 at 06:19

Chris M
116 points