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Me and my 3 partners are in the early stages of a gaming start up company. We are now looking to split the initial equity in the company because we are not all on equal terms. Person#1 is an...

Funding Equity Gaming Investment Early Adopters

asked Feb 13 '13 at 13:30

David Menard
101 points

What if you were finishing your degree and you got an offer from a big company, such as McKinsey. What would you do? Would you say no thanks and work 100% on your idea, or work part-time on your...

Getting Started Day Job Part Time Job Offer

asked Oct 13 '09 at 06:36

Tiago
333 points

Just keeping it simple. I am a freelance web designer, I have an accountant, and I take payments payable to my name. Is there any reason I should form an LLC? Am I safe to continue doing what I'm...

LLC Legal Website Web Dev

asked Oct 27 '10 at 11:30

Justin
76 points

I am going to start up a website in the near future and I am aiming to receive at least 10,000 unique page views daily (hopefully up to 100,000 daily). From what I have researched, a CTR of 10% is...

Adwords Advertising Website Money

asked Mar 21 '12 at 09:55

Jeff
1 point

I have started a service that allows liquor stores to show their products and pricing on my website, giving them full control of their profile, etc. The idea is that users will go on the site and...

Getting Started Business Services Press Release

asked Jul 11 '12 at 09:25

User6528
149 points

nReduce is pitched as a scalable, online startup that takes no equity and introduces startups to investors. Does anyone have informed, factual comparisons of this model relative to the more...

Incubators

asked Aug 2 '12 at 06:23

David Benson
2,166 points

We are an early stage company with a working product. We would love to gain some seed funding to help us market the product. However, we seem to hear about pitch events either in the paper or past...

Pitch Angel Investors

asked May 21 '13 at 08:20

User25771
5 points

I will register all six names (.com, .net, .org) for both my company and my product. At the present, all six will reddirect to ONE of them, but I am not sure which domain should be my main, where I...

Marketing SEO Domain

asked Jul 7 '10 at 23:17

Spiro
105 points

we have been in business for few years, we have a product (software) that is being refined every day, we have a small team we have paying customers. we are profitable. Our lead developer, which is...

Software Equity

asked Jan 9 '12 at 05:28

Maestro
1 point

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? I just want to say that I've read a lot of threads regarding this subject, including the most popular one...

Equity Partnership Shares

asked Mar 28 '12 at 14:38

User1202888
1 point

I am the co-founder/shareholder of a US based software startup (Texas C Corp). Due to some personal reasons I have had to move to India and to make the most of it, I am planning on hiring a few...

India Legal Tax USA Offshore

asked May 9 '12 at 14:32

Rajat Mittal
1 point

Depreciation is added in operating expense, but Depreciation is an expensible item that does not actually cause a decrease in Cash Flow, so Depreciation is backed out of the Cash Spent...

Finance

asked Jun 5 '12 at 22:21

Aaryan
4 points

I consider contacting a few potential angel investors through E-mail, for my yet to be founded startup. My Executive Summary is ready to be sent, but I'm wondering if its safe to send it right...

Angel Business Plan Investors

asked Jul 22 '12 at 02:51

Orchestrator
149 points

Let's say I provide services for my clients (consulting/programming/training, etc.) but the services are provided on demand at the clients' request. I want to charge a fixed monthly fee to cover...

Contract Consulting

asked Sep 15 '12 at 05:14

Miguel M
1 point

For example, if an Amazon competitor had the exact same product categories, or if a Craigslist competitor had the exact same categories...I'm mostly talking about how you categorize what you're...

Legal Copyright Trademark

asked Aug 20 '13 at 16:08

Aerovistae
115 points

I have been pouring over books and the internet for an answer to this question. I understand that this type of question "depends" on many things but if people have had similar experience if would...

Sales

asked Sep 16 '13 at 01:29

Matt R
1 point

How can you build a customer base for your product when all you have is an idea (promise of value)? I'm thinking about getting my product idea to a couple of forums to engage people in it's design...

Products Ideas Development Customers

asked May 11 '10 at 01:24

Raed
101 points

How do service oriented sites start with content? For instance, when a site such as ebay or elance.com start, they woudl need some type of auctions already posted to generate interest in new...

Web Services Business Services Service

asked Oct 8 '10 at 01:31

Sk24iam
344 points

Possible Duplicate: what's more important - .com or name? I am in the very early stages of what I hope to be a very profitable company. It is solely an online presence (think Digg, twitter,...

Getting Started Strategy Website

asked Feb 8 '12 at 14:57

Joe
99 points