Questions

Startups are full of uncertainty, which typically gets (a little) less as the business grows. Lots and lots of questions about almost everything that the founder doesn't (yet) know the answer to....

Strategy

asked Jun 8 '10 at 20:03

Susan Jones
4,128 points

If you've exhausted your personal network (and friends' networks), and now need to hire people who have skills that you don't have, would you try working with a staffing agency? I've heard a lot...

Hiring Management Employees Growth

asked Mar 19 '11 at 08:35

John
23 points

I'm looking at starting an online game, with revenue coming in through the purchase of in-game bonuses. I've got a team of four people, counting myself, working on setting it up, and it should be...

Recommendations Tax

asked Jun 9 '12 at 01:39

Bob
11 points

We are in early startup phase. One founder has a big majority stake and we are co-founders with small 5 minority stake. We have good relations and we are happy with the stakes, but we would like to...

Contract Legal Founders Agreements

asked May 4 '10 at 23:59

Waldec
11 points

Is anybody able to give some advice on: How would I go about setting up a European branch/subsidiary of this company? CHOICE OF ENTITY: Should I register as a branch or subsidiary? LOCATION: What...

Software Subsidiary

asked Oct 10 '10 at 22:36

Juergen Heinrich Rohr
11 points

I am working with a client in the United States that as part of a comprehensive strategy to spin several divisions off as new start-ups is looking to outsource the IT department to a "remote...

IT Infrastructure

asked Jul 1 '11 at 06:03

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I have been building a bootstrapped SaaS business for the better part of a year working late into the night most nights per week. I have never spent anything aside from my own time and a few...

Bootstrapped Legal Sole Proprietorship

asked Jul 7 '11 at 16:11

Matt Beckman
132 points

I am almost finish with my Web application. I was thinking to go to California and present it to angels. Is it a good place to find angels? I is there places I should go to meet people that can...

Location Angel Investors

asked Oct 19 '11 at 05:31

Jean Nicolas Boulay Desjardins
162 points

The only reason I can see is that .com domains for the name you want are hard to come by. Apart from that reason, is there any other benefit to an .io domain? What are the Pros and Cons of using...

SEO Branding Naming Domain Domain Names

asked May 13 '14 at 13:40

William Cunningham
14 points

How I can find the Browser Statistics for a specific country? So how many Firefox users, how many Chrome users, etc.

Statistics

asked Dec 24 '09 at 21:32

Dror Engel
13 points

What do you think of domains that have the word "get" before the actual product name, just like getclicky.com or the domains used by 37 Signals products (basecamphq.com, campfirenow.com)? Does it...

Marketing Branding Naming Domain

asked Sep 7 '10 at 21:00

Pedro Carvalho
11 points

We're planning on offering some key early employees equity in our startup, an LLC, in the form of ownership shares. The benefits include: - proportional sharing in distribution of profits -...

LLC Equity Valuation

asked May 5 '11 at 05:46

Karl R
113 points

I run a mobile gaming company with my brother located in California, we just contracted a couple independent contractors(ICs) from the UK to do some art for our games. Usually, when we contract...

Tax

asked Aug 3 '11 at 08:51

Edgar Miranda
230 points

Joined together to create a new venture with my ex-boss, we shared a great work dynamics and gelled well together, had complimentary skills & liked the idea and hence I decided to start...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement

asked Mar 31 '12 at 04:30

Roby
11 points

If the parent company wholly owns the subsidiary, could the employees of the subsidiary work on products of the parent company? Are special contracts needed? Thanks

Contract Employees Company Subsidiary

asked Jan 28 '13 at 14:56

Kate
99 points

I have a question regarding how a certain aspect of trademarks should be interpreted in the general sense, but I'll provide some of the specifics of my situation as a concrete example. The General...

Trademark Publishing

asked May 8 '13 at 07:54

rbwhitaker
3,465 points

I have a couple of friends who are sharp, technical guys that I may be interested in starting a company with. They are vaguely familiar with web startups (as a career), but are not tapped in to the...

Founder

asked Feb 26 '10 at 09:31

Frederick Cook
301 points

I am an owner of popular website, devoted to services for learning of English words. This market is a very competitive, but we have small growth. I want to establish a company in the United States,...

Partner Website Learning

asked Sep 22 '10 at 09:53

Nulldevice
111 points

So say I have a new "simple" web app idea and it somehow becomes very popular after days of its launch. I don't have the funding to make an iPhone app of the site and someone makes one before I...

Iphone

asked Feb 5 '11 at 09:17

Matt
141 points

When submitting a proposal to a public RFP do you add a "Copyright. All Rights Reserved"? Would this confuse the organization requesting the proposal? Is this common practice? My thought is that...

Copyright Proposal

asked Feb 11 '11 at 02:37

Big Tuna
349 points