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I'm working as a technical advisor to a start-up company. The company licenses its product (a web and mobile application) to large groups of people who then use it for a relatively short period of...

Legal Privacy Security

asked Nov 23 '11 at 23:40

Yuck
257 points

I have started a small startup online business. I need to drive traffic to the site and create new users - a classic "inbound marketing" problem. I have seen that people have asked similar...

Getting Started Inbound Marketing Traffic Micro Startup Registration

asked Sep 23 '11 at 19:33

Slightly Dillusioned Startup Guy
48 points

The list of personality traits entrepreneurs should have are all over the web. We all heard those, every startup blog has at least one post about how tolerance to uncertainty, risk-taking, the will...

Entrepreneurs

asked Sep 21 '11 at 08:34

Mihaly Borbely
715 points

I am currently implementing a relatively simple web application, as I'm trying to dive into Ruby on Rails. It turns out be going quite well and, in my opinion, it will appeal to a lot of users. But...

Pricing Charging Testing Freemium Web App

asked Sep 14 '11 at 05:19

Dyn Zack
216 points

I am interested in starting a small (to start with at least) software company. The Software I would be selling would be add-ons to Microsoft SharePoint. While I am skilled technically, I know...

Marketing Advertising

asked Aug 9 '11 at 15:45

Abe Miessler
264 points

Can someone explain in simple terms based on a simple example what exactly is "vesting"? I've read the Wikipedia, Investopedia, and etc. descriptions but I'm not really sure I get it.

Vesting

asked Aug 2 '11 at 19:13

Miyo
46 points

I have a new bootstrapped web service that targets consumers. It has a free trial offer. The visit to trial conversion is respectable, ranging from 10% to 15% on 300 samples. However, my conversion...

Traffic Trial Web Services Conversion

asked Jun 17 '11 at 22:14

Nick
173 points

I've been working on a bootstrapped startup for about 2 years now. I've been working on it solo to this point, but I feel I'm starting to run out of gas. I need fresh ideas, money and assistance in...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Partnerships

asked Jun 10 '11 at 11:02

Sterling Nichols
148 points

We recently launched an online quoting SaaS and are targeting some fairly competitive keywords (e.g. quoting software or quoting system). Because the domain is relatively new (~6 months), I know it...

Marketing Bootstrapped Inbound Marketing SEO

asked Jun 10 '11 at 08:35

Mike
252 points

I recently came up with what I believe is a great idea which builds on a specific technology already existing in the marketplace. I believe it represents a completely new use for the technology and...

Legal Intellectual Property

asked Jun 9 '11 at 15:25

Aaron Lindeman
46 points

It's often mentioned in startup circles that partnering with a co-founder is a bit like getting married. You form a bound of sorts, and are in it together thick or thin. The importance of "dating"...

Co-Founder Relationships

asked May 27 '11 at 15:12

Tinny
404 points

I was searching for some information, analyses and categorization for business models that are used in Internet-based businesses (basically: in the businesses that are conducted through the...

Resources Business Model Business Plan Business Internet

asked May 23 '11 at 10:00

Tadeck
56 points

I had it in my head (since I need my salary to pay my bills) that I would continue working full-time until either a) the business earned enough that I could quite or more likely b) we secured seed...

Investing Angel Seed Funding

asked May 14 '11 at 00:10

Nick
1,171 points

I consult to companies. I specialize in problem resolution, project management, research and occasionally, if there's a call for it, development. Recently, I was contacted by a development manager...

Ideas Customers Legal Consulting NDA

asked May 7 '11 at 07:39

Traveling Tech Guy
155 points

I have a concept for a non-profit organization which would solve huge problems (think "climate change" for example) with money raised by aggregating very small payments from businesses for...

Non Profit Seed Funding Social Entrepreneur

asked May 3 '11 at 07:02

Beedlebum
46 points

My apologies if this question has been asked before. I tried to find the answer reviewing other questions and still don't have the answer so here is the question(s): We are now setting up the...

Equity Legal Founders Vesting

asked Apr 28 '11 at 16:49

Miguel Buckenmeyer
482 points

Inspired by today's EC2 outage, if I build a webapp on a cloud service, and they have an outage which affects my business, is there anyway I can hold them responsible for lost revenue? Or should I...

Cloud

asked Apr 22 '11 at 02:59

Korneel Bouman
148 points

For a software business, how long did it take to get: Your first $1 in revenue? Your first $100 in revenue? Your first $10,000 in revenue? Your first $100,000 in revenue? Intent Hopefully we can...

Business Revenue

asked Apr 14 '11 at 14:16

Clinton
101 points

I'm in the middle of negotiating an exit of a software startup company. My partner is interested in buying me out. We're negotiating on the valuation. Obviously a detailed analysis requires a lot...

Valuation

asked Apr 13 '11 at 02:29

Erotsppa
139 points

E-conomic is online accounting software, which enables you to write invoices to customers using web forms, track inventory etc. I am considering to start a company, which would compete with this...

Strategy Competition Strategic Management

asked Apr 10 '11 at 18:37

David
1,567 points