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All the current dating sites (Plentyoffish, OkCupid, etc) started by first creating hundreds of thousands of fake profiles and activity to attract users.And then slowly scaling back on those fake...

Strategy Traffic Chicken And Egg Traction

asked Jul 11 '14 at 14:19

Kandy Max
12 points

I'm moving my two-person startup to San Francisco and looking to hire a Rails engineer there.Given how expensive the cost of living is there, what is a decent salary for a full-time, intermediate...

Hiring Salary Developers Engineers Ruby On Rails

asked Jun 12 '15 at 13:55

Robert Cooperman
12 points

Related to this question here, if I'm not a US permanent resident, is it possible for me to get an account in US banks? If possible, what are the prerequisites? Has anyone been in this situation...

Legal

asked Oct 25 '09 at 12:24

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I am looking for some reference material on budgeting and forecasting for an SaaS-type business. Can someone please recommend a good book or blog article they found helpful in managing their own...

Forecast Budget

asked Jul 9 '10 at 16:07

Oleg Barshay
2,091 points

Because of the nature of startups, they have multiple ways of proceeding with the product. this is the problem right now for us. we were planning to for go for global but now we noticed there is a...

Focus Ideas Startup Costs

asked Feb 21 '12 at 20:16

Altuure
103 points

For example, say I form my LLC in Delaware and then decide several months down the road or maybe even a couple years down the road that I want to change the state to Florida and form my LLC in...

LLC Legal

asked Mar 7 '12 at 20:38

Kay
9 points

How can an Australian citizen (or two) set up a company in Australia while living overseas? Is it possible to pay a professional (e.g. lawyer/accountant) to fulfill the requirements of having "at...

Legal Company Tax International

asked Sep 30 '12 at 08:25

Nomadhacker
11 points

My two partners and I formed a corp about a year ago. Setting it up like we each owned 1/3 of the company. While in truth two of us had invested all the capital and the third was doing some of the...

Group Buying

asked Feb 5 '13 at 12:51

Triple C
11 points

"Pricing is actually pretty simple... customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product" With that in mind, how do you determine the real differentiating value of a...

Pricing Sales Selling

asked Aug 22 '13 at 01:09

Bhttoan
735 points

Almost any education related website sees a spike when school is in and then traffic drops off (by over half in my case) when school it out. How do other startups deal with seasonal traffic, and...

Revenue Education Startups

asked May 2 '14 at 00:55

Lakisha Black
14 points

So, I made the entrepreneur leap a few months ago. I've been tinkering and trying new ideas and learning a lot. I know the specific niche I want to work with, and I have been building up a...

Marketing

asked Jan 9 '10 at 08:02

Matt
460 points

So I do the reading, got a feel for what I should and shouldn't do and even have a business education and then find myself circling back with habitual errors. Hey I'm ok making a unique mistake but...

Marketing Recommendations Business

asked Jun 8 '10 at 05:13

John Bogrand
2,210 points

There are a number of people asking somewhat similar questions on here, and typically the answer is a combination of: "You need to register as an out of state LLC" "There is no reason to not...

LLC Incorporation Foreign

asked Oct 2 '10 at 02:08

User4581
11 points

Last year, I incorporated with two other people who, at the time, were all about the project on which we were working. The project eventually fell flat due to loss of interest on their parts....

Tax Founders Shares

asked Feb 4 '11 at 12:23

Shaun
261 points

I own a phrase, which I have trademarked, and it is registered, and also copyrighted. I'm currently getting a website (somewhat finished). I have some domain names, but the exact one I want,...

Trademark Domain

asked Jul 20 '11 at 14:44

Hero
11 points

How many slides should an ideal pitch deck have?What are your thoughts on having some subtle humor to keep the investor's attention span in check?

Pitch Investment

asked Mar 20 '14 at 20:14

Teresa Sanchez
135 points

I've recently just revealed the branding for my up-coming start-up (still in development) and the aim to generate an interest before we officially launch the site - a few months down the line....

Marketing Social Media Promotion Audience Building Startups

asked Jun 14 '15 at 13:07

Reece Matthews
76 points

I'm Tom, one of the co-founders of oQuizo.com - a multiplayer trivia game. We opened the business two weeks ago in open beta. What we find difficult is to how to position our site. It seems our...

Marketing

asked Feb 21 '10 at 02:54

Tom
66 points

Here is the situation. I'm working with two other folk on our startup and we are now planning to incorporate. We're trying to figure out how to allocate founder equity between ourselves. So far,...

Co-Founder Founder Founders Fulltime

asked Mar 3 '10 at 08:09

Matt
113 points

I read the book*The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It*. It is said that we should treat a business as a system, as a money-making machine. We should...

Strategy Management Entrepreneurs Business

asked Jan 10 '11 at 18:40

Steven
1 point