Questions

I own a fairly popular image hosting site (mostly memes). The content of the site isn't high value to advertisers on Google so my application to AdSense was rejected.How can I find a way to...

Monetization Advertising Google Adsense

asked Jun 25 '14 at 13:10

Joseph Larson
12 points

It turns out that most new founders that get seed funded usually get their foot in the VC door via: Recommended by someone Worked at a well known company like Google or FB Went to an ivy league...

Networking Venture Capital Founders Seed Funding Startups

asked May 19 '15 at 21:14

Juan Bourg
11 points

I'm launching a product shortly which is an online service and has (I think) a global market. As a business, I have to charge sales tax* which means I have to add an amount to every sale to give to...

Pricing

asked Oct 12 '09 at 07:25

Denis Hennessy
1,363 points

If you are doing a direct sale and don't have any client references to offer, and the prospect is interested in going forward but needs client references what do you do? How can you still get the...

Sales Entrepreneurs

asked Feb 25 '11 at 06:57

Stacey
484 points

My co-founders and I plan to issue profit shares and voting shares separately. For example, I might receive 35% of the profit shares, and 15% of the voting shares. What disadvantages are there to...

Equity Shares

asked May 13 '11 at 05:13

A Fake Username
86 points

I couple months ago I created a launch page for my SAAS product using an Aweber form to collect emails during beta testing because I like their features. This worked fine before my application was...

Beta

asked Jul 25 '11 at 05:45

Mr Lucky
13 points

I have an idea I am working on that I believe will be useful. I have been told that verbally several times. Rather than spend money on developing it to completion, I want my proposed...

Getting Started Contract Legal Legal Documents

asked Feb 2 '12 at 18:35

Oo The Nigerian
11 points

Offline there are tons of local businesses which are known to be recession proof (ex: laundromats). What are some web equivalent verticals that would qualify?

Ideas Web Business

asked May 19 '15 at 22:25

Britt Aaron
12 points

I'm developing a niche dating website that is in its pre-alpha stage. As for the initial launch, I have a couple of theories and questions. For the very first time, I thought it might be good...

Website

asked Nov 7 '10 at 01:40

Herr K
292 points

I found this very cool site that I thought I'd share with the community (I'm not affiliated with them)! http://www.panabee.com/ It helps you word play and create fun domain names... but it hasn't...

Website Business Naming

asked May 3 '11 at 09:18

Agile Scout
113 points

My partner and I want to open a franchise restaurant. I primarily want to incorporate to protect against random lawsuits. We haven't decided between fully funding ourselves or seeking investors. If...

LLC Corporate Structure Investors Corporation

asked Jun 23 '11 at 05:33

Jhlu87
111 points

We are having a startup in social and location based networking space. We are currently in private beta. What will be the best strategy or events to launch the product? Thanks!

Marketing Launch Location Social Network Beta

asked Aug 1 '11 at 04:47

Neology
113 points

I have an idea for a business and would like some feedback. The other day I was thinking about software development teams and how they function, the things they do right and the things they do...

Software Development Consulting

asked Sep 2 '10 at 12:12

Smart Company Software
1,190 points

From reading a number of books on social media marketing, it seems that way to use Twitter is to build relationships in that universe that ultimately lead to greater traction for your principle...

Twitter

asked Nov 27 '11 at 11:04

D Moore
174 points

I am seeking to start a promotional website for a specific business platform and have descriptions of companies and their products on it. These descriptions include what type of products they have,...

Logo

asked May 21 '13 at 08:40

Ava
11 points

I am an engineer turned founder who is having a tough time coming out of my introverted shell. It's a barrier that I'm trying to overcome in order to finally hire my first employee and possibly...

Personality Founders Startups

asked May 20 '15 at 15:42

Morgan Skeen
11 points

Say I have a brilliant idea for a startup, and need to raise 250,000 $ from private investors. How do I decide on how much equity to give for this investment? Is there a ball-park?

Funding

asked Oct 12 '09 at 07:36

Ripper234
137 points

I am a developer with a few years of experience and someone asked me to work on his very early stage startup (2 people right now). The company is doing ok, not making a lot of money but it's...

Contract Shares Money

asked Jul 18 '13 at 01:43

Mthrowaway
13 points

What are some ways to make a mobile game more sticky?I have been benchmarking all the Zynga games to see all the things they do (Zynga poker, etc).Although, if you look at Flappy Bird, it was so...

Mobile Apps Gamefication Games

asked Mar 14 '14 at 17:15

James Maxwell
120 points

I have one product I started developing earlier this year which I haven't touched in several months now. At some point I began to realize that as a single developer, I'm simply not prepared to...

Software

asked Dec 11 '09 at 08:36

Steve Wortham
287 points