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hope to get a few outside opinions here. The cast of the saga: "M" - the "idea person", has experience, has (or will have) money from property in near future, unemployed at present "B" - A...

Equity Founders Shares

asked Apr 19 '12 at 07:14

C Uk
4 points

Our company wants to use MySQL for one software product, and our product is not open-source. Is it legal to use it freely? If not, how about PostgreSQL? Is this okay for our purpose?

License Open Source

asked Jul 18 '11 at 13:31

Josh Morrison
102 points

We are building software for a medium-sized company 'X'. Software is unique but strongly depends on data which the company 'X' can gather and plug into the software. We develop that exclusively...

Pricing Software Customer Service

asked Nov 26 '11 at 05:47

James
102 points

I'm thinking of building a django application which is like an online shopping mall similar to eBay and Amazon. My business model is somewhat like that of Shopify or Volusion, which means I will...

Ecommerce Saas Hosting Server

asked Nov 14 '11 at 11:48

User14412
1 point

I am planning to start a consultancy using facebook fan/group/profile page. Could anyone shower some ideas about what all I can achieve. Some tips about this to make huge success? And the...

Consulting Facebook Project

asked Nov 8 '10 at 15:38

User3383
100 points

I am thinking in web hosting as a new startup. Is there a niche market in this segment which is not properly served in your opinion? What do you think?

Web Services Hosting Niche

asked May 22 '10 at 02:22

Tony Henrich
85 points

Ok. I have started to port an open source project from Linux to Windows. My doubt is, can i sell it for money after porting to windows? is it ethical?

Open Source

asked Aug 16 '12 at 01:43

Ss Hegde
60 points

I am the co-founder of an ecotourism startup based in India. About 2 months back, we got contacted by a leading lifestyle news channel of India. They wanted to come to the region we operate in and...

Problem

asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:45

Vaivhav
32 points

Will there be any ego problems when founding CEO ( not necessarily CEO - any person who founded the company and now running it) has low educational qualification than his new employees? What to do...

Education

asked Feb 24 '13 at 18:21

Abhijit Navale
245 points

My company Merchants Choice Payment Solutions provides credit card processing for businesses. Our main focus is to first and formost educate the merchant on how the industry works and how to set up...

Ecommerce Payments Entrepreneurs Website

asked Oct 19 '09 at 05:30

Rick Montgomery
12 points

To avoid the hostile taxation and business code in the U.S. I was thinking of possibly starting a non-US based company (I did a little research a while back on some good places but forgot now)....

Legal Business

asked Feb 9 '12 at 14:18

Uiy
106 points

I have found certain shareware software products have large number of downloads. My question is if there are some 20,000 free downloads, how many of the downloaders would have actually bought and...

Software Website Market Online Conversion

asked Jun 1 '12 at 20:43

Techno
128 points

I completed my MBA in 2012 and then worked for 6 months as an analyst, but quit my job to work on a startup. I am not a technical person so I hired a company to develop the website and we ran...

MBA Day Job Failure

asked Dec 4 '13 at 20:06

Kriti
6 points

I'd like to start a business in the service industry (not a restaurant) with a very low barrier to entry (as such I can't give specifics). Aside from making the best product/service that I can,...

Books Competition

asked Feb 9 '12 at 15:23

Gili
178 points

We build a profitable startup In 2 years without any outside investment we are building enterprise software(and producing hardware) for Customer Service Improvement in different...

Marketing Sales Strategy Business Model Enterprise

asked Aug 7 '11 at 07:06

It Samurai
11 points

I am a top programmer and a dreamer, I want to start a open-source free software project to do good for the human-kind, but I don't have income to support my life. I want this project to grow fast,...

Money

asked Nov 4 '12 at 15:22

Super User
1 point

I am looking for a simple software to do my financial status check and a bit of forecasting. It is not for a business plan, I am looking for a replacement to my current spreadsheets which I...

Finance

asked Jul 31 '11 at 21:36

Paul
140 points

I am about creating a spin-off from University. I will quit my job later even. I talked with all my colleagues and they like the idea and support it. My experience with them in academic projects is...

Business Team Groups

asked Jan 11 '13 at 17:15

Flow
114 points

I've checked other questions but none cover the topic of past contributions. I'm wondering how much weight does time spent before incorporating matter. Do Founder A earlier contributions have...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement Shares

asked Feb 23 '13 at 00:12

Jean Pierre
48 points

i just wanted your advice on the following correspondence from a prospect (see below- i have removed a few references). I want to look at this as an opportunity and try to turn the negative...

Sales Email

asked Jun 26 '13 at 21:17

Herman Salling
1 point