Questions

How can I expose my startup to seed and angel investors instead of cold calling them? Is there any way to get feedback from them? In Silicon Valley or other major startup scenes.

Pitch Angel Investors Seed Funding

asked Dec 1 '12 at 09:46

John S
184 points

My product is in development. By Feb 5th a beta should be released. For the mean time aside from getting traffic to prelaunch what else should I do ? I am the nontech founder. So Far I have...

Getting Started Advisors Venture Capital Angel

asked Jan 28 '13 at 06:22

Ted
1 point

I have launched a publication last year August 2012. So far I have 365 readers. Now I realised that the market is changing and also need to get along with the change. I also want to incorporate a...

Getting Started Micro Startup

asked Apr 25 '13 at 00:47

User25994
1 point

What is the absolute lowest credit card processing fees that a company with tremendous volume pays? Ex: What is the fee that Amazon or Walmart pays?

Credit Cards Fees Merchant Account

asked Mar 24 '14 at 19:55

Jennifer Schiro
35 points

I just do not know that much about the other person other then he has good tech skills and can take care of a lot of the paper work stuff, that lets me design and build the business. Which is what...

Co-Founder Equity Ownership

asked Jun 30 '15 at 04:59

Paul Gilchrist
1 point

Hi, I understand that IPR ownership is not the same as equity ownership. In a pre-incorporated stage, do you have any hints about how to value IPR (ie. algorithm) and proportionally convert it to...

Equity Intellectual Property

asked Jul 2 '19 at 18:40

MMA
1 point

A close friend (or a mere acquaintance) of yours approaches you. States that he/she is badly in need of some money. And you oblige. In the back of your mind you know that the money would be...

Funding Equity Angel

asked Feb 8 '10 at 15:57

Sandeep Satavlekar
325 points

I'm starting a creative partnership, however, the theme, name, and concept are all mine. I've invited my friend in as an artist/partner who will contribute to present and future productions. I'd...

Agreements

asked Jan 4 '12 at 12:58

Veronica
1 point

I am an app developer, thinking of releasing an app development service, where I can charge my customers monthly or annually and release their apps from my account on app store. Will this violate...

Legal Apps Apple

asked Aug 12 '13 at 03:22

Happyhardik
101 points

I'm building this mentoring web app and as much as possible I want it to be free. Initially I'll be using my own money to set it up but I also don't want to keep paying for the infrastructure costs...

Getting Started Business Model Web App

asked Oct 9 '13 at 09:17

Marconi
101 points

I am in conversations with a startup interested in my project. I have not set up the company yet, thus we both wish to collaborate, and apply for public funds to develop my prototype/MVP. The idea...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Ownership Transfer

asked Jul 2 '19 at 19:08

MMA
1 point

Whenever smaller entrepreneurs get their software company up and running, some venture guy comes around with a heck of a lot of money. What if that venture guy don't know anything, whatsoever...

Software Venture

asked Oct 10 '09 at 20:08

Martin Hn
234 points

I've been getting a pitch from a company called Blackwood Productions about some SEO services that are supposed to greatly increase my organic traffic. Without going into all of the specifics, does...

Marketing Website SEO

asked Jan 14 '10 at 11:36

Chris
4,214 points

In the past, I have setup several emails for my business. For example, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. From there I would make a gmail account called [email protected]....

Email

asked Apr 24 '11 at 10:32

Sk24iam
344 points

I am having good success with freelance sites over the last three years. I want to take the next step now: create my own products and services, with the goal of generating stable cash flow, so I...

Marketing Co-Founder Selling Profit Sharing

asked Nov 22 '11 at 23:32

Arshdeep
99 points

We are looking at creating a job board and wanted to use a .jobs domain name? Good idea or do we stick with .com ? The domain is very short and simple and describes the job board perfect.

Domain

asked Nov 30 '11 at 04:28

Tim Brown
1 point

Possible Duplicate: How to sell a website? I own a blog earlier its has alexa ranking as well. Its a technical blog where we used to update about the recent software, technical concepts,...

Blog Payments Selling

asked May 11 '12 at 22:38

Amod0017
121 points

I am on H1-B working for MNC in bay area. I have a question like, Can I hold the equity of 1% in my friends start up(C-Corp)? My friend is GC holder. I invested some money, so in return he would...

Equity Startup Immigration H1 B

asked Jul 23 '19 at 21:22

Sateesh Kumar
1 point

Greetings, I am looking for options on reasonably priced (or free / open source) view and markup software that can be integrated into an existing web based, product development software. I know...

Pricing Software Technology

asked Nov 27 '09 at 16:03

Jz199
59 points

Can you please provide me pointers to websites where i can pick up some real challenging work and contribute? Regards, Siddharth

Technology

asked Dec 12 '09 at 18:50

Siddharth
88 points