Questions

When asking this question I am more concerned about the UI at the time of launch. When you first release the product to be used/tested by the general public. By importance of the UI I am interested...

B2B

asked Oct 18 '09 at 00:49

Arman Arami
399 points

is Facebook Connect worth the efforts? any benefits in long term? are there any negative consequences like slow page loads and increased page download times etc? Update: Okay so I just tried...

Marketing Sales Website Facebook

asked Oct 24 '09 at 04:54

Arpit Tambi
1,050 points

Should I provide a EULA for an iPhone app? I understand that apps are covered by the default EULA that the App Store provides but, during some research today, three apps in a row asked me to agree...

Legal Iphone

asked Jan 2 '11 at 15:28

Kevin Lawrence
277 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'd like to start a thread discussing the type of funding different startups are using and why. I think that there are a lot of people here who would like to hear the general experiences,...

Funding Finance Loan

asked Mar 30 '10 at 03:10

Ev Conrad
561 points

I suppose I should find a decent attorney for this, but I'd like to see if I can find some "free" resources first. My company is about to release a software product (actually bundled together...

Software Contract License

asked Dec 1 '09 at 02:48

Tim J
8,346 points

I'm about to finish writing an e-book that will introduce children to programming. I'm at the point where I'm thinking through the elements of launching a site and marketing the ebook. As I've...

Ebook Website Product Launch

asked Apr 17 '11 at 12:01

Javid Jamae
347 points

I'm willing to give 20% of my startup to my partner who has an MBA and good experience. His main responsibility will be sales, marketing and deal making. I'm the developer. I'm working full-time...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Nov 5 '09 at 08:13

Boolean
388 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

I have deep knowledge and experience in a specific industry. I can identify a web based business model that has been successfully deployed in another industry that I believe would be applicable to...

Co-Founder

asked Mar 13 '11 at 08:06

Mike Walsh
745 points

We have a Mac OS X application and we'd like to use AdWords to help people hear about it. The two tests we've done have produced 70%+ of our traffic coming from IE and then Google downgrades our...

Adwords

asked May 18 '11 at 05:28

Dad
166 points

I work for a startup that is into building speech related applications for mobile phones. We have a number of ideas and want to jump right into product development. Recent developments (I cannot go...

Market Research

asked May 23 '11 at 19:54

Sriram
174 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

I have started a small software firm. Of course we need some funding. That's where I heard about angel investors. I would like know about angel investors and how start-ups normally work with them....

Angel Investment Investors

asked Apr 27 '11 at 02:38

Fayaz
36 points

Let's say I created a software that automates the creation of Joomla CMS templates (this is just an example, I'm not into that). I manage to buy the domain name joomlatemplate.com. Great. But what...

Products Trademark Name

asked May 2 '11 at 22:59

User9982
206 points

I've been asked by a [very excellent] university to help them start an incubator that will work with faculty & students to build in-lab technologies into fundable start-ups. [Most everything...

Venture Capital

asked Oct 24 '09 at 08:50

Kyle Jensen
136 points

Online sales tax seems overly complicated. From what I've read, it seems like most states collect sales tax if your company has a physical presence; however, location on both ends is badly...

Sales Tax

asked Oct 18 '09 at 06:54

User960
36 points

Planning is important An orthodoxy has developed that a business plan is a critical component of a business. There are lots of business plan contests. Business planning software. There seems to be...

Business Plan

asked Apr 27 '11 at 05:31

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

Currently in my niche, there are one or two other competitors. Every time I go on their site, or download their software, my heart pounds. I get extremely anxious at how professional and elegant...

Competition

asked Feb 3 '11 at 04:37

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

I recently decided to end my startup project. I've been working with a few testers and communicating with many potential customers via email blasts. They are expecting us to release a production...

Failure

asked May 28 '13 at 13:34

Sguptaet
242 points