Questions

Is it possible to get a celebrity to endorse your start-up without upfront compensation and without guarantee of future compensation? I am not talking about doing any sort of work. I'm talking...

Advertising Support

asked May 15 '12 at 08:17

Mvbl Fst
144 points

What things can be copyrighted of a startup before approaching VCs? I have a very fast growing online venture for which I am going to approach VCs. But I want to make sure they can't use my idea...

Patent Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Sep 22 '12 at 23:24

Sourabh
288 points

I have a site that works like Elance and Odesk in a way.and I am looking for a strategy or at least an Idea of how I can go about attracting freelancers to join my site. Any help will be highly...

Community Crowdsourcing

asked Nov 25 '12 at 10:33

I Scotts
152 points

I'm considering advertising in general national magazines. (So far we've only advertised in specialty magazines for our industry.) I'm wondering what the range of rates is (for say, a 1/6 page...

Advertising

asked Dec 13 '12 at 02:46

Clay Nichols
737 points

As many of you may know advisors can be key to a new startup, esp. with first time entrepreneurs.I wondered, how much time have your advisors say over the last month talked to you? My advisor (as...

Advisors Solo Entrepreneur Support

asked Jan 30 '13 at 11:55

Code Talk
253 points

Let's say I create a mobile application that contains a "Top 100" list of local restaurants. Value-adds may include directions, integration with OpenTable, and links to the restaurant menu, among...

Legal Iphone Apps

asked Apr 28 '10 at 02:49

Seenu
428 points

Reading about companies like Burbn who made Instagram, they have 4 employees and 5 million users. With no immediate plans to make money off the back of it. What kind of person starts a business...

Monetization

asked Jul 8 '11 at 20:56

Benhowdle89
133 points

I'm meeting with a local incubator tomorrow and I would like to know if it's okay to tell them I'm going to "shop around". I want to talk to other incubators and see what they can bring to the...

Getting Started Funding Incubators Investors

asked Oct 30 '12 at 23:10

Dragonman
120 points

I have been planning for years and slowly working on launching my own business again. I have read many articles and I have debated on going the route of an investor but I am unsure on if I should...

Investors

asked Feb 9 '13 at 08:22

Matt 2.0
188 points

I asked this on the Business of Software forum previously and thought I would repost here. Basically, did your business/startup end up being an easier or harder project than you expected before...

Sales

asked Jan 6 '10 at 12:02

Benjamin Wootton
1,667 points

I am now developing foreign market on bussiness of paper packaging products, like folding boxes, blister cards, brochures etc. You can refer to our website link text. Maybe a litter simple, i will...

Foreign Customers SEO

asked Oct 12 '10 at 16:12

Jora Niu
3 points

I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a...

Getting Started Strategy Competition Business Plan User Experience

asked Dec 23 '12 at 13:33

Zapoo
303 points

I created a web application that allowed users to share their ideas using a twitter like interface with some decent capabilities like location,search,voting and (ideas as response) , response...

Getting Started Failure Web App

asked Aug 26 '13 at 20:10

Arko D
101 points

I have not decided what products I choose to work on and I need to do market research. How to do it? Any tips? I am in China.

Marketing Market Analysis

asked Jul 13 '10 at 21:00

Jack
116 points

I started an S corp April 2010 but the project was put on hold. We didn't file the 1120S or 2253 that were due 3/15/2011. This month we are starting to work on a project which will start to bring...

Incorporation Tax

asked Jul 29 '11 at 05:56

Asmy
1 point

I myself run a limited company in the UK. The bank offers me a free Visa card only if I make any payments using the card. The problem is that sometimes I don't need to buy anything for the company...

Visa UK Ltd

asked Mar 3 '12 at 06:46

Lukeshek
452 points

I have some extra cash that I'd like to use to earn cash. Does the following proposal seem good, and if so, are there investor/borrower groups or online communities where I could find startups who...

Loan

asked Aug 16 '12 at 08:49

User6492
1,747 points

I am a web designer/developer in the US and I am very interested in obtaining freelance work via the Internet. However, sites such as ODesk and Elance seem unfavorable to freelancers who need to...

Independent Contractor Web Design Online Web Dev

asked Nov 14 '12 at 13:32

Darren
103 points

I am starting a nonprofit (military family readiness group) that will have completely new board members every 2 years, if not sooner. In other words, I will have nothing to do with this...

Non Profit EIN

asked May 30 '13 at 16:43

Jessica
1 point

I have a content site whose primary source of revenue is affiliate programs. I have yet to see a user that converted and bought something from a mobile device.Will affiliate marketing always be...

Affiliate Mobile Affiliate Marketing

asked Mar 5 '14 at 11:54

Ruth Quinn
35 points