Questions

I'm a huge fan of OmniPlan for my development planning. It lets me set up my tasks, gantt chart them, measure resources, get a rough idea of how long things are going to take, and it's very...

Planning Project Management Project Planning

asked Feb 6 '10 at 11:51

Sbwoodside
186 points

I'm not knowledgeable about business stuffs, legal stuff, and so on. But I was trying to understand, A) how possible is it for someone from another "developed" country to mail a cheque directly to...

Payments

asked Aug 31 '11 at 10:03

Pacerier
317 points

Since there's no way to issue a 1099 (and it would be worthless), what's the correct way to 'pay' a foreign contractor or employee without setting up a company in that country? From my research,...

Foreign Tax

asked Feb 3 '12 at 00:18

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

We own an International Web Development company and get hired from all over the globe. We need to know if one of our US clients, needs to pay taxes for hiring us. They paid us $750.00USD via...

Outsourcing Payments Legal Tax

asked Jan 13 '13 at 15:08

Juapo2 Services
13 points

My startup is in the very early stages. We have a very raw prototype and haven't launched yet and so have no revenue either.Two angel investors are interested in putting $20,000 each in our startup...

Equity Angel Seed Funding Valuation Angel Investors

asked May 30 '15 at 13:41

Darlene Vera
11 points

I plan to start my venture from home; however, I am not sure if this is a good idea. Although, it will help me in saving capital, it may not look very professional (especially in India) to meet...

Location

asked Oct 18 '09 at 19:03

Joydeep
185 points

We're starting a service with a specific value for many home owners, still don't know if many will subscribe. Social networks such as Facebook and others don't work for the profiles that we target....

Marketing Viral

asked May 2 '10 at 04:44

User2387
111 points

I'm running a dating site and as the volume of emails is growing dramatically, I want to be 200% sure that I am can-spam compliant. Here is the types of emails that I send and how I classify them...

Marketing Email

asked Dec 6 '10 at 21:31

Sherif Buzz
462 points

Assuming a minimum viable product's UI and functionality have been tested, should one bother to validate to standards like W3C and such?

Software Outsourcing

asked Apr 8 '11 at 23:00

Raj Kumar
11 points

As my FB ad campaign says, 50 people clicked ad and went to my site (I double checked, URL is correct, it leads to my site). But in my Google analytics is nothing. No traffic from Facebook at all....

Advertising Facebook

asked Sep 1 '13 at 04:33

Joe Half Face
188 points

As a solo-preneur one really needs outside support. Consultants, freelancers, etc. Challenge is finding them, qualifying their experience, and tracking their work; as efficiently as possible as you...

Contract Employees

asked Oct 28 '09 at 09:31

Paul O'brien
521 points

At the moment, my co-founders and I are working on our startup part-time. We're in the process of figuring out how many shares to allocate to each person. If one of us quits their full-time job to...

Equity Fulltime Shares

asked May 19 '11 at 06:19

A Fake Username
86 points

I'm in the process of publishing my product which is ready for beta testing. It has some level of complexity, therefore guidance is required. But I don't want to spend (yet) a couple of months...

Software Video Documentation

asked Oct 10 '11 at 14:48

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

We are about to create an investment club. We have plans to buy stock, but we plan to invest over 50% of our shares monthly minimums on startups. Is this allowed since we are an LLC with multiple...

Investors SEC

asked Mar 7 '12 at 03:11

Constantine Hinds
11 points

I got hired as an early employee (employee #4) and considered as key engineer of the company. As compensation, I got some stock option grant (1%), and well below market salary (about 30% of what I...

Employees Compensation

asked Sep 17 '12 at 00:45

T. W.
11 points

Is there a method or set of methods for writing the financial forecasts and profit loss statements for the next two years of business when you have never actually traded? These documents are often...

Marketing Finance Business Plan Financial Forecasting

asked Feb 4 '13 at 14:46

Matthew
63 points

I have worked with several developers who are very "hot and cold" in terms of their motivation. Sometimes they will slack off for weeks on a project and make zero progress, and other times they go...

Motivation Management Project Management Team Developers

asked Feb 14 '13 at 09:41

Contrazoom
186 points

Say I was given an incentive stock option for X number of shares at an exercise price of Y per share. The shares vest over 4 years. How do you determine the worth of this stock option? A) What is...

Stock Options

asked Oct 10 '11 at 14:58

Jo Jo
148 points

Currently forming a three-person startup; our members live in Tampa, Florida & Hayward, California & Arlington, Virginia. It will be a politics-based web game, and we are reasonably sure...

LLC Incorporation USA

asked Dec 11 '11 at 07:33

Fox
126 points

I am starting an ecommerce marketplace of local vendors. one of my sources of revenue will be lead generation, however I am pretty undecided on how much to charge vendors for every lead I would...

Ecommerce Entrepreneurs

asked Oct 10 '12 at 03:01

Stanford Sequeira
42 points