Questions

I've developting a SaaS product and would like to charge my users a subscription charge, I'm considering a model with a monthly fee and a annual discount - but now my question is this. How do I...

Payments Subscriptions

asked Jun 29 '12 at 20:31

Martin Kristiansen
102 points

For some time I was involved in tech startups a lot, and obviously used the lean methodology. Some time ago though, I got an interesting offer from a corporate (one of the largest meat processors...

Strategy Lean Retail Food

asked Oct 28 '13 at 02:56

Ilja
1 point

I'm looking to raise money from angel investors and would be focused on the startup 110%.I do, however, have some prior commitments that I had made for some short term consulting.I will easily be...

Funding Consulting Angel Investors

asked Mar 21 '14 at 13:28

Shane Benningfield
65 points

Scenario Give investors the option to have 50% of their equity returned as cash in the event that the cash value will equal their original investment amount. The idea is to make this a LOW RISK...

Venture Capital Investors Seed Funding Fundraising

asked Nov 12 '18 at 20:19

Jackson Rollins
1 point

I'm a B2C start up bootstraping. I'm working on a software product and am looking for techniques to talk with my hopeful customers. Working a real time dictionary solution that integrates and...

Marketing Focus Customers Groups

asked Nov 3 '10 at 01:22

John Bogrand
2,210 points

I am just about to launch my site. I am launching it completely ad free. I am doing this for a few reasons. First, the site looks cleaner. Second, people may be more inclined to use the site if...

Advertising Traffic Website Product Launch

asked Nov 22 '11 at 08:19

User5765
106 points

I am working on developing a platform that allows sports fans to interact with their star athletes. I have outsourced social media marketing for initial 2 months. Now we have developed differences...

Getting Started Marketing Social Media Branding

asked Feb 5 '13 at 17:26

Trana
24 points

My website is going to be about technical tutorials/stuff and later I also plan to release an ebook. It's very focused on an important technical topic. The best domain possible is composed to 2...

Domain

asked Feb 16 '13 at 00:23

Oneblueearth
21 points

We're trying to figure out the pricing for a service we've been asked to provide (a couple times, in passing, actually in reference to something we've pitched that hasn't hit the mark "well that's...

Pricing Enterprise Saas

asked Feb 10 '11 at 15:31

Sean
1,149 points

I am a college student and I am supposed to be creating a business plan for a school project. I decided to create a faux video game company in order to satisfy the criteria of the project, but I've...

Getting Started Gaming Business Model Company Business Plan

asked Jun 8 '12 at 08:22

Nicholas Coovert
3 points

In the words of Scott Burnham, in 14 ways to get hacked, rule number 7. 'Release your work half done', I have a project that requires the 'iron to be struck whilst its hot' so to speak, but I don't...

Open Source

asked Jan 26 '13 at 23:03

Andrew Welch
167 points

I'm part of a team that is in my university's startup competition, a big event with a big prize for the winning team. As part of the competition, teams have to contact the people who represent...

Gaming Tools Contact Entrepreneur

asked Oct 28 '13 at 08:16

Chris Conlon
3 points

Can anyone point me to any data that shows validates the scalability promises of the MySql database ? Specifically I am looking for real life examples of applications running MySql server and...

Technology Infrastructure

asked Oct 25 '09 at 15:18

Kabir
96 points

I work for a large complex company, I delibrately do not want to say, which business it is in, in order to make this discussion general. In this company, as in many others, there are lots of...

Strategy Strategic Management Value Add Customer Value

asked Feb 26 '11 at 23:19

David
1,567 points

Currently the software is in alpha and we're looking for some more users and are not sure where the best place is to drop an invite code or whatever other strategy will help us gather up some...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Saas Beta

asked Jun 11 '11 at 14:33

Nfriend21
31 points

I'm participating in some business funding and recently we've faced a severe problem. The question is quite simple: how do we share profit, so that no one would be left behind? So, there's three...

Business Profit Sharing Money Loss Sharing

asked Mar 22 '12 at 19:12

Denys S.
166 points

What are some key items to watch out for in an office space lease? We're renting a small space and don't have the resources (bootstrapped) to also hire a lawyer just to review the lease.

Office Space Lease Leasing

asked Mar 21 '14 at 15:43

Joel Villegas
5 points

I'm interested in joining an early stage startup and have a question regarding what is the expected equity I should be offered. This is the scenario:1. The startup has a single founder who is the...

CTO Equity Startups

asked Dec 12 '18 at 00:02

SWlkz
1 point

Do you guys think a ecommerce Saas product would "fly" if the service didn't actually process the credit cards itself? Rather it redirects to services like paypal, google checkout etc?

Ecommerce

asked Jul 20 '10 at 05:06

Un Startup
162 points

In the past, I have worked on many different projects with groups of people ranging in size from 2 to 10. These projects have always flopped due to numerous issues, but one issue that has always...

Human Resources Partnerships Groups

asked May 14 '11 at 12:03

Skudd
1 point