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I am a software developer. I have a good idea and I'd like to create a startup. I am planning to invite one or two of my colleagues as co-founders. I am concerned about the relationships with my...

Getting Started Legal Website Intellectual Property

asked Sep 11 '12 at 07:32

Mel
68 points

I am seeking help in how to handle an underperforming partner / friend that is resigning from an early phase of a startup. Two friends and I began an equal partnership startup with the following...

Technology Negotiation Legal Apps Partnerships

asked Sep 6 '12 at 23:40

Daniel Moravec
36 points

I'm interested in developing a product for the sport of paintball. It has an estimated 10+ million participants (3rd largest extreme sport), though I'd be targeting the real enthusiasts of the...

Funding Niche

asked Aug 24 '12 at 23:43

Tbowman
217 points

Im starting my Startup with $0, a Mac, and A Windows. I need Startup Money but I don't want to get it from Venture Capital. What kinds of Methods are there? Thanks

Startup Costs Venture Capital Money

asked Aug 14 '12 at 09:44

Coder404
136 points

We are five engineering students, going to start up a company. As there are many competitor companies in the market, we were looking for an investor to start very big. Fortunately, we found an...

Founders Investors

asked Aug 7 '12 at 01:00

Akshat Nigam
50 points

I'm launching a new project/company, upon which we've decided on a name that we really like. We're planning to first target the UK, before expanding worldwide. Unfortunately (and annoyingly), the...

Prices Domain

asked Jul 5 '12 at 18:14

Anonymous
557 points

I am an IT engineer, I am familiar with programming and website development (not a complete expert though), I am also good with servers, OS, security and networking etc (whole 9 yards of IT). What...

Ideas Business Plan

asked Jun 12 '12 at 17:46

Kapish M
134 points

I have a new bootstrapped SaaS app that targets small businesses. It has a 30 free trial offer. The visit to trial conversion is around 1%. Currently I have 9 paying customers with 360 trial...

Saas Conversion

asked Jun 7 '12 at 06:43

John
36 points

We were thinking of starting a Web Startup using the technologies C#,Asp.Net MVC 3 and Sqlserver. We have heard a lot of talk about "cost" when it comes to using Microsoft technologies for a...

Launch Startup Costs Microsoft

asked Jun 3 '12 at 11:05

User636525
138 points

I've sent concise pitches about my startup (general, and for various features) to around 20 tech journalists from tech blogs/sites (Mashable, Techcrunch, TNW, RRW, Lifehacker, Venturebeat, etc.),...

Marketing Pitch Coverage

asked May 19 '12 at 00:43

Bozho
155 points

We're working hard on a new SaaS idea. We're bootstrapping as much as we can and are not looking for outside investment. Our goal was start charging for the service on a yearly basis, in our minds...

Payments Subscriptions Saas

asked May 2 '12 at 20:05

Littlejim84
141 points

I opened a gourmet shop 3 months ago. The same people come into my shop and offer various kinds of advertisement, and products that they think will fit into my store. When they come for the first...

Advertising Customer Service Small Business

asked Apr 29 '12 at 05:35

Nadia1903
36 points

I have been working with a startup for 6 months. It is an advertising company for which there is a very heavy technology portion (I would say 50% of the company is based off of a mobile front-end,...

Software Technology Equity

asked Mar 14 '12 at 00:30

Phil
210 points

My partners and I are working on a startup and part of our model is acting as a 3rd party aggregator of certain services, similar to a travel agent, meaning customers pay us and we pay the service...

Insurance Service Merchant Account Retail

asked Mar 13 '12 at 19:05

Dmoore
46 points

There's a truism I often hear - claiming that the less complicated the signup process for a web-service, the higher the conversion rate (as a rough measure of complexity, count mouse clicks to...

Marketing Conversion User Acquisition

asked Mar 13 '12 at 00:52

Blueberryfields
426 points

I'm currently using a 2009 version of QuickBooks Pro for my S-Corp accounting needs. They recently sent me a letter "suggesting" I upgrade to the 2012 version ($200+) as many of the features of the...

Tax Accounting

asked Mar 10 '12 at 03:23

Dave
160 points

What is the thought sequence, particuarlly in a new venture that you're thinking about or have already started? Do cool things just randomly pop in your head after whatever things you do through...

Strategy Market Research

asked Feb 26 '12 at 04:25

Steven
41 points

I've come over from Stack Overflow. I'm currently working full time as a web site developer, and like many people have got a bit fed up of working for someone else and want to set my own business...

Getting Started Work Life Business

asked Jan 22 '12 at 04:51

Space Beers
168 points

I created a SaaS that became quite popular over the weekend. I had a steady stream of users sign up and many are actually still using it (lots of folks who signed up out of curiosity). Anyway, I...

Software LLC Saas Business

asked Jan 14 '12 at 01:54

Luckytaxi
177 points

I am looking for examples of tasks that you have successfully delegated to others - be it either in house staff, virtual assistants or outsourcing.

Ideas Outsourcing Business Process

asked Jan 13 '12 at 02:33

Ryan
1,365 points