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Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place. For this question and answer, we will tackle your Product...

Marketing Products Canon

asked Aug 19 '11 at 22:04

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

We are looking for a great copywriter who can understand our product, our selling proposition, and our customers, and can run with it and produce web site and brochure copy. We have a budget of a...

Marketing Hiring

asked Sep 20 '11 at 04:09

User36624
13 points

I don't have retail experience and what I need to price is SAAS, however I am aware of the psychological factors when it comes to pricing. $19.95 is a heck better than $20, even though the price is...

Pricing Saas

asked Oct 12 '11 at 07:00

Usabilitest
1,698 points

If there's a Founder's Agreement in place with a vesting schedule, how does one actually go about firing a co-founder such that he loses his unvested equity? For a three person startup (split...

Legal

asked Dec 13 '11 at 05:35

Helo
11 points

My company has finally gotten to a place where we can hire a second developer, and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for doing recruiting (that are hopefully cheap). I've posted to...

Hiring Developers

asked Jan 25 '12 at 06:01

Bwasson
1,162 points

I have a recently launched software product but still have no support options, because of my resources constraints (time, money) plus other priorities (website, SEO, marketing). So, I'm...

Software Support

asked Jul 26 '12 at 13:16

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

Should we contact any site we want to scrape to build our market intelligence app?No company would say yes if we were to contact them.While Google obviously doesn't ask for permission while...

Legal Scraping

asked Mar 1 '14 at 20:33

Michal Harper
25 points

"We invest in people as well as business opportunities" is probably one of the more frequently used phrases by investors. Besides getting to know your potential investors personally, the...

Entrepreneurs Business Plan

asked Oct 19 '09 at 21:57

Ben
11 points

I want to launch different web services which have different co founders under one company, And still keep them separated from each other? for example should one of the apps not do so well I don't...

Getting Started Strategy Legal Branding

asked Mar 9 '12 at 19:01

I Scotts
152 points

I am looking for a technical co-founder to join myself and the other founder in the development of some software for a start-up with with a great market. The problem is I'm 16. We both have some...

Software Co-Founder Development

asked Jul 6 '13 at 00:09

Jason
41 points

We are designing a tailor-made ERP application for a SMB customer whose processess are very specific and have been very succesful for the last 20 years. Question is: How to charge for the project?...

Pricing Charging Enterprise

asked Mar 11 '10 at 02:41

D Llamas
11 points

A friend and I have been developing an application which will be used as a startup venture. There is a considerable amount of work to be done. We have not set up any legal framework, business not...

Partner

asked Jul 12 '10 at 01:11

Geoff
13 points

I have a friend, who was involved in a startup part time, and he got shares in it. Now he was offered to join the startup as a technical director ( the rest of the founders are sales and...

Equity

asked Nov 15 '10 at 11:46

Graviton
871 points

I run a software company and that means in theory any software-project is something we could do... in practice not quite but still the range is very wide. However simply advertising online as a...

Marketing Website

asked Jun 1 '11 at 21:18

John
173 points

I have been able to get significant interest from a good number of well suited angels for my business, after many months of looking for folks who grok my industry. But now, it's the middle of the...

Angel Investors Angellist

asked Jul 14 '11 at 15:20

Britta Riley
11 points

I'm starting a US business and will need to ship a ton of packages of about 5000 in a month. I'm sourcing the product from HK. Each package is about 5 lbs and 5x5x5 inches. Any tips on which...

Selling

asked Aug 10 '11 at 05:49

Elison
11 points

I'm looking for bullet points on how to negotiate. I know there are entire tomes written on this. But I also know that the essence of negotiation can be boiled down to a few essential points - that...

Negotiation

asked Sep 15 '11 at 01:31

Voidstar
11 points

I am a Software Developer and I live and work for a company in the UK and pay PAYE taxes and NI Contributions through my wages for this jobs salary. I am looking to start working on a couple of...

Getting Started UK Tax Contractor

asked Jan 19 '12 at 00:16

Penfold
111 points

2 colleagues and myself won a contest, for a business idea (my idea). We jumped into things and immediately bought a domain, incorporated in a partnership, bought a computer, some business cards...

Legal

asked Mar 24 '12 at 16:05

Jason
11 points

I am a trained accountant with banking experience. However, my real interest is finding technology solutions for everyday end user challenges. I understand business very well and technology fairly...

Technology Consulting

asked Jan 17 '13 at 23:56

Stella O
13 points