Questions

Being in the last stages of completing the development of a video based social network, my partners and I have interviewed a few internet marketing specialists for promoting us. After receiving...

Marketing Equity Social Network Internet Marketing Profit Sharing

asked Jul 8 '11 at 17:34

User11829
1 point

I have a business partner who has contributed 15% of the total or our small business, but will be contibuting around 40-50% of the workload. He will also gain 100% profits for his own work which...

Partnerships

asked Sep 9 '11 at 15:58

Lewis
1 point

I have not actually bought the server hardware yet, but I am anticipating that when I do, my budget can only allow hardware enough to support 2000 hits per day on my website. How should I handle it...

Budget Server

asked Dec 20 '11 at 16:32

Matthew
1 point

For years I've been using "FOB our office" to signify that the buyer pays for all shipping door-to-door, insurance, import duties, etc. In other words, we hand the package to the FedEx guy and...

International Shipping

asked Jun 2 '12 at 01:22

Martin's
121 points

We are an young startup whose target market in other young startups and SME's. We intend to provide them with service like blogging, link building, content research and other activities that will...

Outsourcing Social Media Relationships

asked Feb 18 '11 at 05:35

Beginning Steps
50 points

One of my marketing strategies for my b2b product is to contact businesses through the contact form on their website. Basically, I go through a list of websites, and if they have a contact form I...

Outsourcing

asked Dec 1 '11 at 08:49

Michael
1 point

I'm nearing completion of my website. I need advice on how i would go about server costs? I haven't got the type of money to pay for a good dedicated/VPS server for high traffic. Should i go about...

Website Business

asked Jan 25 '12 at 17:17

User892134
101 points

I am starting a non profit organization of which I will be the sole owner. The business is about selling books to particular groups of people at a cheaper price. I live in US, Massachusetts. What...

Getting Started

asked Jun 21 '12 at 12:21

Chimpanzee
102 points

I'm currently hashing out my price points for a hosting service that I plan on launching on Amazon AWS. The biggest line item in the budget is currently the machine time. I know that if I give a...

Pricing Cost Hosting

asked Feb 12 '11 at 07:07

James
139 points

For a couple of months now, myself and a couple of contacts of mine have been pondering ways to develop an incubator to bridge the entrepreneurial resources of NYC (Silicon Alley) with Long Island...

Community Organization

asked Aug 21 '11 at 04:24

Theonlylos
397 points

I was thinking it all right to work on my great concept during my free hours and weekend left from my day job. however, lately, I feel I cannot use this free time effectively due to job stress and...

Funding Day Job

asked Feb 16 '12 at 20:46

Ned
1 point

This is a general question for company shares: My partner and I have an equal stake in our company. We want to bring in a designer since both of us suck at UI. We have one in mind. Since we own...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Partnerships Design

asked Jan 30 '13 at 08:53

Joe
1 point

The standard monetization procedure for free products these days seems to be to place ads everywhere. These ads often reduce the quality of the product for consumers. I'm looking for a more...

Monetization

asked Mar 5 '14 at 04:11

Daniel Que
21 points

What title should you represent yourself with when you're a one-man show?

Solo Entrepreneur

asked Mar 30 '14 at 16:41

Marc Adrian
1 point

Many of us here on the site are owners of small businesses or getting a startup up and running. I'm curious to know what goals people are setting for the new year, and whether or not you spend time...

Strategy Planning Growth

asked Dec 15 '10 at 03:39

Elie
4,692 points

Before I get into the question, I’d like to mention that this is my first venture where I am a decision maker, it's been great but as you will see below, due to some inexperience, I am stumped as...

Customer Support Business Process Organization Communication

asked Mar 11 '11 at 13:50

Danny
113 points

I am selling a b2b enterprise software application. We have been in development for about 4 years, which include some beta testing. Over the past 5 months, we brough on a couple developers with...

B2B

asked May 24 '12 at 03:56

User17410
5 points

I am new to making/managing websites. Infact, I haven't even dipped my toe in yet. I have an idea with a potential client base in Millions(education related). The content is being provided by a...

Advertising Revenue Video Costs Education

asked Nov 25 '13 at 07:07

Bernard
1 point

I am starting a business that produces its product based on customer opinion that is collected via a website. How effective is word of mouth proliferation over online social media for spreading the...

Marketing Social

asked Apr 18 '12 at 02:54

William Ernster
1 point

We're two Italian developers, and we're about to release a software technology in open beta. However, we're not incorporated as this is a long-term side project of ours and we're both employed...

Incorporation Legal Beta

asked Jul 5 '12 at 19:03

Tunnuz
101 points