Questions

I had a brainstorming session with a friend a year and a half ago, and a lot of great ideas came out of it. I moved on the ideas, starting a company - our product has been on the market for about...

Patent Intellectual Property

asked Sep 9 '11 at 03:24

Riley
193 points

I'm considering setting up affiliate marketing (probably with someone like ShareASale) for my vertical market app. (It's installed Windows S/W for churches and charities to track their donors and...

Marketing Affiliate Vertical

asked Jan 25 '12 at 06:35

Dan Cooperstock
11 points

I am currently in the process of building a website and would like to know how I can register a trademark for the name of my website (to avoid possible problems with the competition). What I am...

Trademark Domain

asked Apr 10 '12 at 06:53

Ben
136 points

How does reverse-vesting work? I understand the company has the right to "buy back" shares if the employee leaves early, but how exactly does that work? What price do they pay per share?

Shares Vesting

asked May 9 '13 at 13:24

Gili
178 points

I have a client that has a .NET saas. We're looking for a reliable Windows/.NET host with Sql Server 2008 host that has good support. The gotcha is it also needs to support php and mysql for a...

Recommendations Hosting

asked May 5 '10 at 22:09

Corey Maass
201 points

My friend and I are currently developing an iPhone app, it's very challenging and we may have to outsource the development of some core features, which is going to cost a lot. the problem is that...

Development Application Iphone

asked Sep 9 '10 at 03:21

Raed
101 points

I'm looking for a web app that makes it easy to recreate paper forms (preferably drag and drop), and then save the information in a database, and generate custom reports (again, preferably drag and...

Database

asked Mar 24 '11 at 04:35

Dave Feyereisen
963 points

We are looking for a CRM solution for a small software vendor. We would like to be able to manage classic CRM data such as: account, contact info, orders, etc. But there are a couple of other...

CRM

asked Mar 9 '12 at 23:58

Paul
140 points

It seems to me that encouraging innovation is extremely important for startups, but how do you reward it? If one employee contributes 10 good ideas that never get across the line, and another...

Ideas Equity Employees

asked Oct 22 '09 at 23:10

Rick Measham
111 points

Dharmesh Shah made mention about talking people to people who are interested in your domain about your product before releasing your idea. he talks about it in this video over at mixergy. Excellent...

Getting Started Ideas Web 2.0 Competition

asked Dec 13 '09 at 06:55

Espinet
221 points

I am on the verge of quitting my day job to work full time on a startup, solo initially. It seems that I could become eligible for a swathe of UK tax credits. These are pretty lucrative but they...

UK Tax VAT

asked May 10 '11 at 19:53

Paperjam
394 points

Please can someone advise whether the below terms is a good idea. I working on a start-up and engaged a Lawyer on a deferred fee agreement basis, then he sent the following terms. Before I enter...

Startup Costs

asked Feb 10 '12 at 02:27

Tiger
11 points

I'm developer. I had an idea for a company, came up with a name and everything, and decided to bring in a business development partner. The responsibilities for him were: 1. do business operations,...

Partnership

asked Jun 1 '12 at 13:03

Joey Stieben
11 points

As a follow-up to this post: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/615/what-is-the-best-merchant-processing-solution what are some merchants that people have had a good experience with. I am...

Ecommerce Recommendations

asked Oct 11 '09 at 12:06

Marcamillion
153 points

What's a reasonable budget for forming a proper shareholder agreement in a new start up, formed as a corporation to be owned between 4 founder/shareholders? I understnad there's some variation...

Contract Incorporation Legal Founders

asked Nov 3 '09 at 04:16

Michael
250 points

After doing a bit of research into sponsoring foreign workers from a UK based company, I came across something interesting; according to the UK Border Association, a small business must have...

Incorporation Insurance UK Micro Startup

asked May 13 '10 at 19:50

Nbeecroft
515 points

Once you have identified an angel investor what are some of the questions you should ask him/her and what should you be prepared to talk about with them? Ex: the business in brief, investment...

Angel Investors

asked Jun 28 '10 at 22:49

Stacey
484 points

I am in the process of creating a startup in an existing market and through research found that in order to win customers from competitors, I need them to "adopt" my product/service as their own....

Getting Started

asked Jul 21 '11 at 20:16

Salmon
181 points

Is there a difference in responsibilities? What is a VP R&D usually responsible for? Are these different names for the same position?

CTO Titles

asked Oct 25 '11 at 16:38

Ita
81 points

I want to start up a frozen homemade food business. The food/meal should be just like we make at home. The sale will be like membership on the website. For example someone will buy dinner for 1...

Advertising Company Business Selling Business Food

asked Mar 24 '12 at 20:00

Ela Oktay
11 points