Questions

I am attempting to create books for a small non-profit where we have a member base who pay a monthly membership due. I have thought about creating an accounts receivable for each member that would...

Accounting Bookkeeping Small Business

asked Jul 31 '13 at 01:19

Ahhchuu
13 points

Is it a good idea to offer a less featured version of your software as open source as a marketing strategy? It obviously has worked well for companies like MySQL and wondering if it could work for...

Marketing Software Strategy Open Source Tactics

asked Sep 9 '14 at 15:42

Glenda Gregory
12 points

Recently it came to my attention that my business partner (50/50 LLC in CA, no partnership agreement) has been using the company account as a line of credit for himself. In the past 13 months he...

LLC Legal Small Business Embezzlement

asked Jan 18 '17 at 21:01

sbg
11 points

We are having a good idea for a software product. Since its complexity surpasses the capacities for a one man army or perhaps of a small software team, it will be necessary to outsource software...

Software Contract Outsourcing Software Licensing Cost Estimation

asked Sep 26 '11 at 08:07

Jpcf
111 points

This is sort of a follow up to a post a few months back. I recently converted a solo software project into a "business" (in quotes because it has a non-profit motivation and I make very little at...

Sales Non Profit

asked Nov 10 '11 at 12:51

Kekito
1,936 points

Would one need any thing special to keep in mind? Are there any unspoken protocols that people follow? I have heard that most VCs won't entertain you unless you come through a referral. Is that...

Venture Capital Pitch

asked Feb 7 '14 at 19:17

Wilfredo
11 points

I'm going to helping a friend try and sell a service of his which is completely free to users. It's a social media tool similar to ManageFlitter.He has a large number of active users. The service...

Acquisition Valuation Acqui Hire

asked Mar 5 '14 at 17:27

Violet Phillips
155 points

I am cooking an idea for an online job board product. I'm thinking of using affiliate program as the primary marketing vehicle. I have no experience running an affiliate program (though I've...

Marketing Affiliate

asked Feb 23 '10 at 13:24

G Rex
683 points

When vesting ownership shares to founders/employees, isn't a taxable event created without realizing cash income? In this case, as you build the company and create more value in the shares, don't...

Equity

asked Apr 26 '11 at 02:27

Ben Anderson
11 points

I am a recent graduate and soon I am starting my own company in the IT/Tech. Because always all of my studies were mostly technical(computer programming,coding,...) and do not have that much work...

Books Finance Definitions Bookkeeping

asked Jul 22 '11 at 07:04

Hossein
111 points

We are a start up company set up 14 months ago. We were building few products which we could not finish yet. we plan to finish it in another 6 months. Since our initial budget were very low. We had...

Funding Investing Entrepreneurs Investment Strategic Investment

asked Oct 2 '11 at 10:57

Fayaz
35 points

I'm starting a niche social networking site so far by myself. It's my idea, and these are my contributions so far. Research and purchase domain names Brainstorm entire site concept, much of the...

Partnership

asked Sep 11 '12 at 17:17

Jimmy
71 points

What kind of roles does a founder fit into after they are replaced by a more experienced CEO?While a lot of companies we read about still have the original founder as the CEO, in most cases the...

Founder CEO

asked Apr 1 '14 at 22:44

James Middleton
14 points

Is it possible for a foreign company to register a LLC in the US?

LLC Foreign

asked Oct 10 '09 at 13:33

Sean Lin
143 points

I found some commodities in China, and I'm very interested in import them for reselling in my country. However I'd like to verify the commodity's status before make my first buy. Do you know a way...

Sales China

asked Dec 22 '10 at 15:05

Sd Reyes
156 points

Have you found the SBA to be of any value in launching your start up? We used the SCORE program and got some reasonably helpful advice but other than that, haven't seen much value. Here's the...

Government SBA

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:03

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

I just moved into a subleased office space in Southern California and am required to carry general liability of at least $1M for our startup. This didn't seem like a big deal, but when I called my...

Insurance Office Office Space Lease Leasing

asked May 27 '11 at 04:16

S Wrobel
113 points

I discovered that I have some borrowing capacity at low rates based on an investment account that I have, and so I'd like to draw down that money and loan money to start-ups and other companies...

Investors Loan

asked Jul 3 '11 at 21:46

User6492
1,747 points

We are in our first round of startup fundraising. We need $50,000 for business growth and we currently have one investor who is interested in investing $25,000 for 5%. He is concerned with his 5%...

Ideas Investors Dilution

asked Nov 5 '13 at 08:36

Ramsey B.
11 points

I have a script that I have developed that I had a need for but nothing was available. Is it possible to make money from an open source product? How can I monetize it and why would people pay me...

Open Source

asked Feb 8 '14 at 16:39

Cao Tuyết Thanh
11 points