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A critical "right of a passage" to all the entrepreneurs I work with is the printing of their business card. It makes it official. Important. But the market for exchange of information is, well...

Marketing

asked Mar 23 '11 at 02:46

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

The glib answer is "start a business." Seriously, all entrepreneurs need to know some marketing, whether they call it that or not. Market research, communications, advertising, and so on. Do you...

Marketing Books Website

asked Jan 9 '10 at 02:31

Dan
303 points

I was reading this article on traction and it had an interesting comment in it: If you wait until you're "ready" to fund you're too late. Funding is about developing a relationship over time....

Networking Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding

asked Apr 23 '11 at 05:52

Nick
1,171 points

I was wondering what the difference between a founder and a co-founder was. I am the founder of a company and I have worked on the project by myself then brought on board a partner to work on the...

Co-Founder Entrepreneurs

asked May 4 '11 at 04:08

Andy
81 points

My software based LLC is on the verge of explosive growth... I don't want to be the one managing the people and dealing with all the politics, negotiations, marketing etc. I want to continue doing...

Legal CEO

asked Jan 10 '12 at 02:39

Bill The Ape
133 points

I have launched a web app a couple of days ago in closed BETA and I have been trying quite hard to contact relevant bloggers (about 12 of them now) to post/tweet about my startup and to offer BETA...

Launch Email Beta Product Launch

asked Feb 26 '11 at 01:31

Carl
33 points

I read a lot that daily deal sites such as groupon and livingsocial are hard to scale from a business viewpoint. What does this mean, and why is this so?

Marketing Advertising

asked Jul 23 '12 at 20:19

Jason
56 points

I am an employee who has been granted common stock (note: actual stock, not just options) in the privately held company I work for. To my knowledge, the stock is not traded anywhere and it does not...

Stocks

asked Jun 10 '11 at 13:30

Stock Owner
31 points

I am currently setting up Quickbooks for my manufacturing business. I have tons of historical data to enter. I added all my vendors and I am now at the point of creating my "Chart of Accounts."...

Accounting Bookkeeping

asked Jun 7 '10 at 22:38

Clint
695 points

I'm currently a CS grad student and am wanting to test out how successful I can be at a entrepreneur this summer since I'll have all my time to myself. I've thought about mobile app development, in...

Profitability

asked Apr 4 '11 at 00:25

User1926
148 points

I often want to leave my ongoing lucrative & comfortable job and start something of my own. But then I get stopped by the thought that, what if it fails? What kind of mental trauma / setback...

Failure

asked Dec 12 '11 at 01:04

Iammilind
182 points

I'm about to join a new startup as their CTO and we need to choose our server software stack. The client side is a mobile application (Android, iPhone, etc.) so the server side exposes an API and...

Venture Capital Microsoft

asked Mar 9 '11 at 19:44

Asaf R
133 points

I've read lots of entrepreneurs' advice, and most of them boil down one concept: never give up. This is easier to say than to do. My question is, when is the time to give up and move on? When is...

Entrepreneurs

asked May 24 '11 at 22:40

Victor
593 points

I have a Facebook fan page for my startup and I'm looking to increase the numbers of fans. What are some techniques for acquiring real, legitimate fans?

Web Design

asked Oct 30 '11 at 10:36

Sima Akter
31 points

Is it better to run a payroll, pay all the extra taxes, so the company has more of a structure down the road when trying to do an angel round? Or leave the company out of it, and just use your...

Salary

asked Feb 25 '10 at 09:14

Doug G
446 points

All over the internet, the consensus seems to be that when you are looking for funding it is important to approach angels or VCs through an introduction from someone they know, rather than cold....

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investors

asked Feb 10 '11 at 09:40

Susan Jones
4,128 points

I've been a developer at startups before, but I've never been involved in marketing. I'm now trying to sell a few of my own mobile apps, and I'm hitting a brick wall. Two months ago I released an...

Marketing Mobile

asked Mar 25 '13 at 16:56

Gabe Sechan
131 points

I recently saw a video with Jeff Bezos saying (to paraphrase) "with the internet you should spend much more time on making a great product that can market itself.". I have spent (an unbalanced)...

Marketing

asked Feb 7 '10 at 04:07

Jon Kragh
185 points

How important is it to have the original of a contract? Would having just a copy of a signed contract still make it enforceable? Is it any different than signing two copies of the same...

Contract Legal

asked Aug 2 '11 at 06:49

Sam
56 points

I recently formed an LLC for my software side business. The income generated is between 5-10k a year. I have also filed and receivied a Federal EIN. I think I intend to take money out or "pay...

LLC Tax

asked Apr 14 '11 at 23:36

Robby Pond
133 points