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Customizing Wordpress (apart from using themes) is very hard and it's all a bunch of spaghetti PHP code. Yet their marketshare keeps increasing over the years.Why hasn't another CMS platform that...

Competition Wordpress Platforms Traction Market Share

asked Jun 21 '15 at 13:58

Chris Jenkins
11 points

For those that are running profitable ventures, some amount of cash reserves are necessary to: Smooth out the variability of cash flows Be prepared for emergencies such as an office flood or a...

Risk Finance

asked Oct 25 '09 at 16:34

Oleg Barshay
2,091 points

What is the best marketing channel to distribute an ebook? Let's assume I know how to promote the ebook, and merely want to choose a marketing channel. Should I sell it through a middleman like...

Marketing Ebook Distribution Marketing Channel

asked Jun 25 '10 at 06:27

Joseph Turian
895 points

How do most startup founders manage to get landlords to allow them to rent property while they are in the process of starting a company, and stable revenue has not struck in yet?

Entrepreneurs Company

asked Apr 10 '11 at 22:55

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

Would you recommend dropping out of High School to pursue creating a tech startup?What are some pros and cons of starting your own company in general?

Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship High School

asked Feb 27 '14 at 01:14

Ronald Moffet
20 points

Pat and I are interviewing Trent Freeman, president of PRTechConnect, a new PR firm specializing in startups, with startup-level pricing on April 12th for the Startup Success Podcast. What...

Media List PR Press Release Buzz

asked Apr 3 '10 at 03:43

Bob Walsh
2,620 points

I'm looking into starting a formal business, and need a little help. I currently go to a public university and have a scholarship that is based on the fact that I, personally, don't claim more than...

LLC Tax Corporation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 16:57

Zakman411
174 points

I am currently on H1B visa, I want to do some volunteer work for a non profit organization on my free time and weekends, helping with some web development. I will not get any monetary benefits from...

Non Profit USA Startupvisa

asked Dec 26 '11 at 04:45

User995487
28 points

I have a home business and clients will never need to come to my home in order for my business to operate. If I form my LLC in Delaware, I will have to register as a Foreign LLC for the state that...

LLC Foreign

asked Mar 8 '12 at 06:09

User16817
63 points

I love startups but have no prior startup experience. Till now I have only built stuff like mobile apps (as part time gigs) and worked as a consultant for many large enterprises. I have this new...

Equity Investors

asked May 31 '12 at 02:55

Xoail
365 points

I'm in discussions with a programmer to do contract work for my startup. He works full time programming at a Massachusetts company whose business is unrelated to mine and my project would be done...

Intellectual Property

asked Oct 14 '12 at 22:36

Kevin
11 points

I'm a college student who's about to launch a small web startup with my cofounder. The business plan is a freemium model where we'll be collecting small payments from users for use of the site. We...

Payments

asked Aug 10 '13 at 11:47

Kiljore Trout
11 points

I have about 1000 people who answered a survey about 10 years ago that were interested in the product I was going to develop. They indicated they'd like me to send them an email when the beta...

Email

asked Feb 8 '10 at 07:54

Lkessler
1,471 points

I have just finished designing the concept of my service, that is, what I am going to offer to people has crystallized. there are various components to this, and I will look for cofounders now, and...

Founder Blogging Word Of Mouth

asked Jun 8 '12 at 15:58

Bjess
11 points

Let's say I have a company where I am the founder and also have 2 employees - E1 and E2. Let's say there are 1000 authorized shares, but only 800 of them are issued. 600 of those shares are...

Co-Founder Founder Incorporation Stock Options Shares

asked Oct 8 '13 at 04:45

Salmon
970 points

I'm working on a web app and launching in the next few days, I finally came up with a name "jellyblub" and got the domain. My thing is that I'm a little embarrassed about seeking funding because...

Funding Venture Capital Web App Angel Investors

asked May 7 '14 at 20:35

Franklin De Los Santos
11 points

A hardware company is keen to hire employee #1 at $42k/y salary and 0.5% equity (common) with a 4 year vest, 1 year cliff. The company has been around in one guise or another for ~1 year (though...

Equity Review Offer First

asked Jul 16 '14 at 23:22

User34083
11 points

Releasing a website soon to connect ordinary people, students, business men with teachers and professionals, how do I recruit the teachers and professionals?

Recruiting Website

asked Jun 22 '15 at 02:46

C Wakeboard
11 points

As we start going to conferences in 2010, I'm curious what the right amount of swag per attendee should be. Obviously, not everyone wants stuff and I think there's some panache to having the cool,...

Marketing Swag Conferences

asked Dec 12 '09 at 12:15

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

I think we all agree that inbound marketing is hard, takes time and time is money for all small startups. We do have some staff but all occupied with running the business and we don't have anyone...

Marketing Inbound Marketing

asked Oct 28 '10 at 05:32

Dr. Evil
111 points