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There are lots of lists of incubators around (eg please see OnStartups question 8614 ) however the majority are based in the US, with just a few in Europe. (Please see OnStartups question 18887...

Incubators Geography Germany

asked Jan 18 '11 at 08:19

Chris
140 points

We have successfully launched a small business providing services locally in a couple cities. Uptake of new clients has been slow and we want to spend some of our (limited!) cash to market the...

Marketing Recommendations Advertising

asked Feb 18 '11 at 04:19

Mcohen75
157 points

I am working on a startup project (software) and I'm really enjoying it. I think the company has great potential. Up until now, the work has been part time and I've been able to fit it into my...

Software Co-Founder Payments Entrepreneurs Business

asked Jul 15 '11 at 12:55

Johnny X
11 points

I own a small brewery and I need some help valuing it. In operation 18 months Annual gross revenue is around $30,000 (like I said, we're small) $200,000 in cash We expect to use about $110,000 of...

Valuation Manufacturing

asked Aug 7 '12 at 04:10

Dean Brundage
256 points

I'd like to ask you for the help/advise to come out of the problem that came out recently in our group. We're working for 3-4 months on the web application similar to http://instagram.com/ or...

Strategy Community Open Source Micro Startup Relationships

asked May 10 '13 at 22:06

Igor
111 points

What are some strategies to use mobile to get more people to visit your store?

Mobile Small Business Local

asked Mar 4 '14 at 14:04

Charles Wright
40 points

I have a developer from overseas I have been using for several months, we have a good relationship. I am thinking of bringing him on as the technical partner. Do you think there would be any issues...

Development Partnerships

asked Nov 11 '10 at 00:33

Jdeleon
70 points

I am working on the business model for a web start-up idea. The premise of the idea involves feedback generation for a brand/customer service, crowd-sourcing and social networking among...

Marketing Website

asked Oct 12 '11 at 22:46

Anshul
11 points

I'm a design agency who does client-work through freelancers, and I'm looking to hire/partner with people in other states and work with them remotely to expand my reach to cross-country. Think...

Networking Entrepreneurs Partnership Design

asked Nov 17 '11 at 00:09

Vic Goldfeld
111 points

We're looking at hiring a systems administrator contractor at a certain hourly rate to do sysadmin-y things. So far, this is easy enough for me to wrap my brain around. But during certain hours,...

Independent Contractor Rates

asked Oct 17 '12 at 02:11

Todofixthis
183 points

There are a ton of "startup directories" like Product Hunt that list new startups and apps.Is it worth the time to add your new startup to all these sites? Due to the large numbers of companies...

Marketing Launch Startups

asked Aug 25 '14 at 14:57

Geoffrey Ford
11 points

To buy a capital investment and build inventory, a family member wrote a $3,000 personal check to my company. We verbally agreed on terms of 1 year at 10% interest with monthly payments. My...

Finance Agreements Loan

asked Apr 13 '10 at 06:45

Clint
695 points

I'm the sole founder of a b2c startup for 2 months now. I have about 20 paying customers and few hundred free sign ups. Unfortunately, things are going too slow because I'm not getting any traffic....

Marketing

asked Jul 22 '11 at 03:30

John
11 points

I own an IT service company providing development services to clients. Recently one of our clients offered us an equity in his startup against the development services we provide. He will give us...

Equity

asked Aug 10 '11 at 21:42

Abhi
31 points

Should the time spent on developing a new software product be proportional to the market share of the platform? For example, if Android is 50% of the market share and Apple is 25%, then for every 2...

Time Management Market Internet

asked Sep 9 '11 at 14:48

Jo Jo
148 points

What are the best incorporation (and related) document resources? Are the YCombinator incorporation docs available? There are a number of 'model' or 'open source' documents for a startup's first...

Funding Incorporation Legal Documents Ycombinator

asked Jan 25 '12 at 15:50

Chris Busselle
36 points

Background: My friend and I talked about building an application, saying this is the idea, let's see if we can develop something around it. After thinking about it for a few weeks it seemed not...

Co-Founder Legal Partnerships

asked Dec 3 '12 at 18:40

Patrick Long
11 points

I'm very new here but I'm happy to have found this site. I'm thinking of starting a company very soon that is real-estate driven. I want to get some advice/ consult from somebody who has...

Real Estate

asked May 11 '13 at 02:35

Marco Trinidad
13 points

I am considering starting a business based on daily/regular emails that will be fed an automated process getting data from a MySQL database. I am looking for a service that: offers a ready-made...

Email Database Service

asked Jan 31 '11 at 04:53

Tucson
714 points

As a big Starbucks fan and avid traveller I have noticed a trend while travelling whether its from Toronto to Texas to California... All Starbucks employees seem to have a very similar personality...

Hiring Job Offer Jobs

asked Feb 28 '11 at 12:14

Chain
313 points