Questions

I have already read many of the posts here about this topic and I got very good insights already but I was hoping to get some tailored advice for my situation. I have been working two years in a...

Co-Founder Equity Vesting

asked Mar 1 '12 at 05:24

Throw Away 222
33 points

I'm a software developer and quite illiterate when it comes to business thing. Recently someone has asked me to join a company and, while the salary is not higher than what i currently earn, he...

Partner

asked Mar 23 '11 at 19:55

Rudi Adianto
138 points

Inspired by Vivek Wadhwa's post on TechCrunch, I've spend the last 12 hours researching Chile and thinking about moving to Santiago. Chile is really appealing to me right now. One thing I could...

Location

asked May 4 '10 at 15:48

Amy B
131 points

I developed .NET application and planning to sell it on monthly/yearly subscription plans. At first I found that Plimus has licensing system and everything else that I need, but when I finally...

License Payments

asked Jun 24 '11 at 23:59

Miki22
31 points

The users of my saas app have a 14 day trial run to decide if they like it enough in order to stump up the cash for a monthly subscription. I'm trying to work out a schedule of emails to send the...

Saas Conversion

asked Jul 2 '12 at 17:37

User18616
131 points

I've heard some horror stories about this. Is it really that hard to sign up for the iOS developer program and have the seller's name be your business name if you have a DBA? I've heard many say it...

Iphone DBA

asked Jan 24 '11 at 06:19

Matt S.
131 points

I'm trying to explain to a friend about building an audience before the product is built ... even while still designing the application. Examples of this might include, opening social media...

Marketing Audience Building Example

asked Mar 27 '11 at 14:48

John Mac Intyre
1,086 points

I have been approached by a friend to help with the business side of a venture that he has developed/bootstrapped. No external funding until now. He has developed a working product with outsourced...

Bootstrapped Funding Equity Terms And Conditions

asked May 25 '11 at 16:30

Paddy
31 points

I am pretty bad with gifts and in the past years I was awarding monetary bonuses to folks who work with us. I am not particularly keen on the idea of bonuses mostly due to the fact that we can't...

Management Employees Gifts

asked Nov 26 '10 at 06:29

Alex
262 points

I started a consumer SaaS almost 2 months ago. It's a calories counter system. You log in, register your meals and the system tells you how many calories you ate and the type of those calories. You...

Business Model Monetization Saas

asked Oct 25 '11 at 08:45

Joca
31 points

These days I am in process of raising 20k$ for my project (a facebook application), that requires at least 30k$ (10k of which I am able to come up with myself). When negotiating with an angel...

Equity Angel Investors Seed Funding

asked Apr 24 '11 at 17:27

User9950
31 points

As a startup in Australia, one of the problems commonly faced here is getting a suitable payment service that customers world wide can use. It seems that since the implementation of global AML/KYC...

Ideas Payments Credit Cards

asked Oct 11 '09 at 10:24

Anthon
470 points

I'd like your opinions on how I can use marketing to increase sales. I run a small business on the side (I also have a full-time job), selling a niche enterprise software application. Last year I...

Getting Started Marketing Advertising

asked Mar 25 '10 at 21:20

Cocowalla
327 points

I would like to find bloggers who speak to my target market, and who might mention my business and therefore drive name recognition and search engine optimization for my website. Any suggestions on...

Marketing Blog SEO Bloggers

asked May 30 '10 at 12:47

Smart1 Cpa
171 points

Coca cola, pepsi, lays etc why do companies need so much of advertising all over TV's, internet, sports events...even after becoming a household brand. how much percentage of their profit usually...

Pricing Marketing

asked Dec 2 '09 at 10:45

Syed
445 points

If you are asking your VA to do tasks that involve your credit card, bank information, and other personal information, you need someone trustworthy. How do you find a trustworthy VA?

Virtual Workforce Trust Remote

asked Dec 1 '10 at 16:48

Joseph Turian
895 points

My partner is the founder and I am the co-founder of our company. He has a sales background and I have operations. We agreed for him to have more equity (50/30) as the company/products were his...

Sales Incentives Compensation

asked May 13 '12 at 04:45

Alex
31 points

From your experience, what would you like to advice First Time Enterpreneur ?

Getting Started

asked Oct 26 '09 at 08:57

Rachel
173 points

I recently read a news article (in Norwegian) that "the ability to cooperate" was essentially the only requirement for applicants, which was just as relevant 50 years ago as it is today, while...

Recruiting Employees Tools Human Resources

asked May 20 '11 at 20:26

David
1,567 points

My site just went into Beta release last week. I am at the point where I would like to get a certain number of Beta users on the site so that I can get more feedback. Right now I have people using...

Beta Users

asked Dec 1 '10 at 18:22

John
161 points