Questions

If you raise a small amount of money (under $50K) on Kickstarter for a product you want to build, can you pay yourself a small salary along the way? I am quitting my day job to focus on this...

Funding Salary Crowdfunding Kickstarter

asked Jun 6 '14 at 16:58

Mary Pritchett
17 points

How do you start your cold call pitch? What has worked for you? Do you go straight into the product asking if they're interested? Or Do you get personal and ask them how they're doing. Let me...

Marketing Pitch Entrepreneurs

asked May 1 '11 at 10:27

Andy
81 points

I have several startup ideas waiting in a drawer, some of which are probably worth further exploring and continuing to a full business plan and start execution. A different person would probably...

Ideas Venture Capital Decision

asked Oct 27 '11 at 20:58

Robert Koritnik
308 points

We're making a different approached and kinda niche web and mobile project and planning to release our private beta release at the end of January. But I'm confused about our user register...

Getting Started Registration

asked Dec 2 '11 at 18:34

Tylerdurden
131 points

I'm trying to figure out what my role is... Backstory: Late last year (October/November) I was asked by an acquaintance If I'd be keen to help develop a SaaS product that he & his brother had...

Co-Founder Development Equity Shares

asked Mar 4 '12 at 16:42

Kyebosh
18 points

I'am a student and joined a Startup as a summer intern, as a Web Developer. Later on I said that I am willing to continue work for at least 1 year (part time) and they agreed. Is it okay if I ask...

Bootstrapped Equity Technical

asked Jul 14 '13 at 03:56

Gaurav Goyal
47 points

A/B testing is all the rage now. There are lots of choices: Google Website Optimizer, Mixpanel, KISSmetrics, a number of ones that live inside your application, and more. What is your A/B testing...

Web

asked Nov 4 '09 at 14:16

Mark Bao
604 points

Let´s say that you are on your late 20s, early 30s, you had a rewarding professional career without breaking your back but you were never really passionate about it. You look back and you realize...

Choices

asked Dec 4 '09 at 03:12

A. Garcia
1,601 points

We are about to launch a website offering products. My "gut" feeling is that a good proportion of our customers will be based in the US. We are currently based in the UK, though that is likely to...

Pricing Payments Saas Accounting

asked May 16 '10 at 17:40

Morpheous
236 points

Say I'm able to trademark the word "widgetville" for an online game that I'm building. But the domain "widgetville.com" (and pretty much every major TLD of the word) are all registered, but just...

Trademark Domain

asked Dec 10 '10 at 16:11

Shpigford
146 points

My company is an LLC incorporated in Massachusetts. We're looking for a way for our employees to participate in any upside if the company is sold or acquired. We don't want to award membership...

LLC

asked Dec 23 '10 at 05:50

Michael Monteiro
16 points

There are 5 other members in the startup and they work in different locations. We are looking for online meeting software suitable for a small distributed workforce. It has to support at least...

Software Distribution Online

asked Jan 21 '12 at 09:00

Ryan Rho
53 points

I am interested in forming an "ownership group". I see the term all over the place, especially in sports, but can't seem to find any details on how these groups are initially formed. Is it a legal...

Funding Legal Documents Group Buying

asked Dec 14 '12 at 08:24

Mark
126 points

Over 3 years ago the development company I was working for went into liquidation owing ~$500K. There wasn't a lot gained from the sale of the assets and as far as I am aware, the liquidators still...

Intellectual Property

asked Jan 8 '13 at 22:26

User22450
16 points

Can we use a logo+name for our product even if other companies use it? We are in an industry which has no other business using the logo, but there is a clothing company, and probably some other...

Legal Logo

asked May 16 '13 at 07:09

Mr Kelley
118 points

Let's say company A produces various online services that fill different needs. Do you think they should have a separate Twitter/Facebook fan page for each service? Or should there just be one main...

Marketing Social Media Social Network Branding Identity

asked Jan 31 '10 at 18:59

Matt
460 points

Is there anyone that has experience with some groopon like applications (clones) and would like to share with me their experience?. I am just a programmer and I don't have much experience with...

Marketing Ideas Website Business

asked May 12 '11 at 06:42

Sfrj
205 points

Does anyone have any insight on what it takes to start a new ISP (like Comcast, but at a smaller scale)?Do you need a significant amount of money to even get going and lay your own infrastructure?...

Resources Lease Internet Service Money

asked Jun 9 '14 at 14:02

Leslie Patterson
17 points

My work partner and I have just finished to built a new community website about sport. We also have created a Private Limited Company in UK (with the help of an accountant). We both don't know...

Legal Website

asked Nov 18 '09 at 23:19

Fabrice
23 points

I find difficult to handle some customers. They say to meet in some day, but something comes up and they dont appear. They simply have something pressing to do, but I lose time and money with it....

Customer Support

asked Dec 15 '09 at 03:38

Artur Carvalho
116 points