Questions

My startup received a Terms Sheet from an investor and my co-founder and I are trying to figure out if they are saying that they are going to want 30% of our profits at the end of every year or if...

Legal Angel Investment Term Sheet

asked Dec 9 '11 at 10:04

Tom Delaney
16 points

I have a side project that I work on part-time. Recently someone who is not technical had similar idea approached me and would like to work on the marketing side and help out on product design....

Equity Part Time

asked Sep 26 '12 at 16:45

Perlwle
23 points

I guess the common term for this in the valley would be to pivot.If we raised money from angel investors, and it turned out the startup isn't going to succeed, could we pivot the company to a...

Ideas Pivot Angel Investors Startups

asked Jun 15 '14 at 19:13

Kent Campbell
17 points

I have this project, where I'm about to create a political debate website. The election time in my country has just passed so there are quite a few people with questions for the politicians, and it...

Non Profit Website

asked Nov 5 '10 at 22:19

Janis Peisenieks
181 points

what resources do you use for statistics on things like: how many people have iphones, how many ipads, android , etc and split by countries if possible. Do you know any site to offer such statistics?

Statistics

asked Oct 9 '11 at 02:29

Ryan
147 points

I'm a foreign web entrepreneur, I can get an investor to invest +$100k into my US targetted startup. Will i be eligible to apply for an E2 US visa? Because i'm not sure if it's necessary that the...

Visa

asked Jan 8 '12 at 09:35

Ryan
139 points

Over the last two years or so I've been developing a software product in my spare time(I'm still currently consulting at an investment bank). It's fairly niche in that it's targeted only at banks...

Equity Financial

asked Apr 17 '13 at 09:08

John
21 points

I have the personal understanding, the ability to restructure my site so it is appealing to the Chinese audience and enough expat Chinese friends to test the hell out of my startup website. What I...

Website Geography China

asked May 23 '11 at 12:09

Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

I was working for a startup as a remote contractor for couple of months. The founders of the startups are non technical and I am the only one technical person into the team. After working with...

Equity Startup Costs Startupvisa

asked Aug 18 '12 at 19:46

Arnold
16 points

I want to develop a tool which makes it easy for teachers and professors to write tests: multiple version, multiple choice, long answer, scantron, the whole works. The question is, would I be...

Software Web

asked Mar 6 '13 at 09:28

Ian93
118 points

I'm working on an international startup, website based, for which I need to create a name (with corresponding domains for all extensions) that is internationally accepted as my service is meant to...

International Naming Domain

asked Oct 31 '10 at 20:56

Tom
116 points

How would you force-rank (1 being highest to 8 being lowest), in terms of value to your startup, the following 8 services provided by an investor: Warm introductions to potential customers Warm...

Funding Venture Capital Investors Seed Funding Value Add

asked Feb 24 '11 at 21:58

Zippy
871 points

I have an LLC for my custom software development business. It is currently registered in Virginia where I have lived for years. Now I am moving to NC because of my wifes work. Everything I do is...

LLC Legal

asked May 23 '11 at 13:12

Justin C
838 points

In starting a small software consultancy and figuring out how to market and present ourselves to the world... Does anyone have any experience as to whether it is best to market yourself based...

Marketing Software Consulting

asked Jun 9 '11 at 15:48

Terry B
121 points

If a start up is storing sensitive user data in it's databases, how should the company protect it from it's engineers accessing it unnecessarily and misusing it?

Security Data Protection

asked Aug 17 '11 at 16:27

Sabya
116 points

I came across a somewhat catchy 6 letter name that had a domain still available. I snapped it up but then found out that splitting the name has a meaning in another language that, while not bad, is...

Name

asked Oct 21 '11 at 23:49

Jesse Vogt
118 points

I am founding a startup and trying to determine the correct equity split to expect. The situation is that at my former company (Company A), I developed some software, which is currently owned by...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property

asked Jul 17 '13 at 00:16

Randigoo
61 points

What method of software protection do you recommend simply to make sure your software is not too easy to use without paying, but is not too annoying for honest paying customers?

Software Ecommerce

asked Nov 13 '09 at 15:41

Lkessler
1,471 points

I'm looking to join a very small company (5 employees) and run all of business development/sales and marketing. My professional experience lies in 8 years of Sales in the online media and...

Software Development Business

asked Feb 18 '10 at 10:35

Danny
113 points

I want to add a chat capability to my web site. Wondering recommendations from folks. Looking for something relatively inexpensive and relatively easy to implement but want it to be functional....

Technology Website Vendors

asked Nov 25 '09 at 00:59

Chris
4,214 points