Questions

Background: I'm the co-founder for a 2 year old startup that is currently bootstrapping and solidly profitable (300k+ revenue this year). When we hired our 3rd and 4th employees (COO and CTO...

Equity

asked Sep 21 '12 at 03:05

User406112
31 points

What are the options available for online credit card processing? I have developed a website where I need to charge credit card. I will not be interested in storing credit card information. I know...

Credit Cards

asked Oct 16 '12 at 04:32

Ready To Compete
31 points

I have an offer from a series B startup that includes number of shares but no mention of value of each share or total shares (so I can compute a percentage). I asked and they were unwilling to...

Job Offer Stock Options

asked Mar 14 '13 at 09:17

David Cowden
133 points

I previously operated my consulting business as a sole proprietor operating under my own name, using my SSN on W9 forms, etc. I have since registered an LLC and am starting to bring in clients. I...

LLC Tax EIN

asked Apr 17 '12 at 10:39

Eddy Luten
171 points

There are companies that are able to ship a mattress with a shipping charge of $5. There are many, like Amazon, that are able to offer free shipping. Logic tells me that you achieve this by...

Products Business Business Services

asked Feb 6 '11 at 04:50

Geo
268 points

In the context of a software company, when does it make sense to hire a technical evangelist (also known as advocates now). Big companies have them and I've seen plenty of smaller companies with...

Marketing Sales

asked Sep 15 '11 at 02:18

Dustin Davis
272 points

I am looking into setting up a company for a business I'm bootstrapping, that I plan to finance by doing consulting/freelancing. So I would like to set up a legal entity to do business. The main...

Incorporation Offshore

asked Mar 28 '11 at 05:22

Mircea Grelus
782 points

We produce mobile applications for businesses of all sizes. In the past, the majority of our clients have been big names: Guinness, Universal Pictures, Ernst & Young, etc. As we reformat our...

Marketing Development

asked Oct 31 '13 at 21:40

Davey Boy
55 points

Looking at PEO (professional employee organization) providers - just wanted to get a sense for who else is out there other than TriNet. I only know about TriNet from Feld's AskTheVC blog:...

Employees Benefits Human Resources

asked Dec 13 '09 at 08:21

Sachin Agarwal
63 points

Let's say a certain startup is currently in the Friends-and-Family stage. What will happen to the investments of those people during a seed round or when someone invests bigger?

Seed Funding

asked Sep 23 '13 at 18:48

Abel Melquiades Callejo
47 points

Does anyone have any data (or opinions) on whether to collect payment info during the sign-up process, or after the trial has ended? Collecting it up front probably converts better (though not...

Payments Beta

asked Nov 17 '09 at 10:24

Justyn
892 points

Let's say I hire some remote contractors. Some are based in the US, and some are international. I want to pay the contractors on a bi-weekly basis. What is the best service to use for paying my...

Contract Payments Independent Contractor Payroll

asked Nov 10 '10 at 11:31

Joseph Turian
895 points

Two co-founders and I have started a project that is going rather well. We sell a service that is paid on a monthly basis but that also has some up-front costs (revenues for us). Thus far we have...

Business Investment Profit Sharing

asked Feb 5 '12 at 09:54

Daniel Gill
175 points

I have a launched a very unique product for healthcare billing companies. It is unique in the way that it is operated. I am doing AdWords and SEO tactics, but do you think cold calling works? I am...

Marketing

asked Mar 24 '11 at 06:12

Kpo
131 points

What is the implication of Google Panda release on my clients who are "outsourcing" scontent creation for their blogs?

SEO Social Network

asked May 16 '11 at 11:17

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

We are an existing company of 4 years, with 5% of market share in our chosen market. The market we have chosen is an infrastructure market. It is a recession proof market. We have built the...

Capital

asked Nov 9 '11 at 08:08

Ruby
31 points

I work for a start-up company who has a client requesting that we place the source code for our SaaS (software-as-a-service) application in escrow. They're concerned that, as a start-up, the...

Intellectual Property Software Licensing Escrow

asked Mar 10 '12 at 04:54

Yuck
257 points

I've found a great partner for my second tech startup, and want to structure this one better than the first, which made money but eventually got ugly due to poor choices my younger self made along...

Equity Tax Partnerships Stocks

asked Mar 29 '13 at 02:45

Smarterthistime
31 points

I'm based in Hong Kong. I've read through a lot of information about share vesting for co-founders and realized that is definitely the solution I want. I'm now trying to figure out how to actually...

LLC Legal Shares Vesting

asked Apr 29 '11 at 11:04

Asim Hussain
41 points

I just started a new web design & SEO company in India. For now we are targeting US, UK clients only.. so no personal meeting only email marketing stuff. Most often I feel very alone and some...

Marketing India Motivation

asked Oct 12 '10 at 01:25

Kashish
95 points