Questions

Are you working from home? Is your office in a garage? Is your business plan too big to be executed by you? What plans do you have to change this, if you don’t like the present situation? Is...

Funding

asked Dec 4 '09 at 21:20

Francis Eager
38 points

Is it common to issue equity to CEO as Preferred stock but other co-founders as Common stock? When setting up a 20% employee pool, it is common to have terms that the unissued equity will be...

Equity Founders Agreement Employees Angel Seed Funding

asked Jul 23 '11 at 13:52

Howard
126 points

I've noticed a former potential partner of mine is using a logo, website design, and company description/mission that I created and retain full ownership of. Should I just send a simple email...

Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Mar 5 '12 at 19:04

Ashton M.
83 points

I love the advice on Venture Hacks about confining the time you're out pitching to set amount (e.g., six weeks). Basically, kick it off and then run as fast as you can with as many people as...

Entrepreneurs

asked Nov 8 '09 at 19:19

Tommy Maddox
156 points

We have a couple of options to name our company but we would like to find out which one is best accepted by users or which one is better associated with our product. In the past it was possible to...

Website Ab Testing

asked Dec 30 '09 at 03:12

Gera
91 points

We're an Israeli Company that wants to expand to the USA, we have already close the commercial details with a very experienced executive in the USA, now we have to decide how we can hire him, we...

Hiring Employees Company

asked May 12 '11 at 23:01

David
16 points

I'm a co-founder of a startup, and I've been working on it for almost 3 years. The vesting term is 1-year cliff and 1/48 per month. So now I have vested 15%, and 5% not yet vested. I need to quit...

Equity Vesting

asked Feb 27 '12 at 01:53

Samie
18 points

What are some ways to improve results from "broken link building" (where you contact sites that have a broken link to help them correct it and also get a link placed to yours in the process).Any...

Strategy Link Building

asked Apr 11 '14 at 17:12

Albert Lewis
16 points

We offer a SAAS and I am at the stage where we have a MVP and are looking to validate our assumptions which is that small shop owners will make more revenue by using our system. Our target...

Marketing Small Business MVP Validation

asked Jan 27 '12 at 02:44

User15995
42 points

I contacted a lot of investors and accelerators. I found most of them don`t care about the product itself too much, but strongly requiring start-up should have a co-founder. Why? Perhaps some of...

Getting Started Co-Founder Investors

asked Dec 15 '12 at 09:26

Anlai
375 points

Looking for a place/process to co-audit recent work. Like I just created or updated this certain feature on my website in the last 2 weeks, and I'd like to do walk-throughs or get reviews with...

Mentor Software Ideas Design

asked Sep 30 '13 at 00:39

Efficient Leader
37 points

How should I go about changing my startup's name? What are some things to keep in mind in terms of marketing and branding?

Marketing Branding Naming Startups

asked Mar 12 '14 at 08:13

Robert Thompson
47 points

I recently attended a trade show where I spoke with about 20 solid leads. I want to make sure I take the right steps after the show to increase my chances of closing the sale. I sell B2B software...

Tradeshow

asked Oct 7 '10 at 10:00

Tom Espo
16 points

we aren't exactly a startup because we've been in business for 4 years, developing products for telco companies in my country. What I insisted in last 2,5 years is that we sponsor development of...

Marketing Sales Global Customers

asked Jul 23 '11 at 21:18

Damir
118 points

If you have a startup business that could use any one of a number of different revenue models, how do you go about testing/evaluating each model? For example, you might try: Freemium model vs....

Business Model Revenue

asked Sep 30 '13 at 01:29

Steve
310 points

Im planning to hire 3 employees in a soon to be corporation in USA, but I would be only a director because of my passive role as a non immigrant. How I can find qualified people, meet them in a...

Incorporation Foreign Employees

asked May 23 '11 at 15:30

Alejandro
48 points

I've developed a web software application that allows teachers and students to fix session times. I'm planning to provide this software for sale as an installable. However, I cringe at the...

Software Customer Support Selling Web App

asked May 28 '11 at 04:17

Jon
126 points

This is a little complicated, but I have an interested group of angels asking for how much for 10%-20% of my company. I have no clue what to tell them, or what my valuation is. It is a B2B Saas...

B2B Angel Saas Investors Valuation

asked Nov 12 '11 at 09:21

Amanda
16 points

I am not sure how to structure website for our SaaS product. Basically we want to tell 3 things: what is product about (it's relatively new and to our potential customers (small businesses) yet...

Website Saas

asked Mar 6 '13 at 23:39

Matej Zlodej
273 points

Pertaining to a new mISV (software business), should I choose an S-Corp or an LLC. Which would you choose and why?

LLC Incorporation

asked Jul 7 '10 at 01:14

Phantom Typist
116 points