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From stratup MicroISV perspective, the way I look at the possibilities for advertising, it's much better, as a long-term strategy, to invest and work on the best SEO possible for your web site...

Marketing Adwords Advertising SEO

asked Jun 5 '10 at 02:06

Spiro
105 points

Do you think as an employer we should care about the employee's welfare? Should we care about our employees' financial difficulties, and raise their salaries [i.e because prices are going up] or...

Employees Human Resources

asked Dec 5 '10 at 07:59

Jpartogi
1,342 points

One of the great benefits of the web application business is that startup costs are generally fairly low compared to brick and mortar businesses. Web hosting is getting cheaper and programming...

Funding Venture Capital Website Web App

asked Feb 2 '12 at 04:59

Jason C
41 points

We have today paypal integration, which was very simple, one time purchase. Now we want to into recurring payment model and charge users on monthly or yearly basis. We would also allow users to...

Ecommerce Payments Payment Gateway

asked Dec 3 '11 at 07:50

Jewelthief
151 points

I'm a developer, who has been working solo on a startup for close to 12 months. The tech side is coming along well, but I'm acutely lacking in my business accumen, and sales skills. Here's some...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Mar 20 '13 at 11:53

Marty Pitt
171 points

So the idea for my startup which we have been also sharing with few incubators wasn't well received during the last 3 months. And now we find out that during this time the same has been developed...

Ideas

asked Nov 12 '11 at 07:20

Vishal
73 points

Over the last 3 months, I've had more than 40 phone calls with partners at well-known VC firms, dozens of in-person meetings, follow-on meetings and partner meetings. We're nearing the end of the...

Funding Venture Capital

asked Oct 11 '09 at 02:59

Randfish
1,001 points

We're a software startup with annual revenue in the ballpark of half a million. We're completely bootstrapped, and have no current plans to take funding. We currently have 4 employees. We're...

Incentives Employees Human Resources Stock Options

asked Dec 11 '10 at 04:28

Polemarch
301 points

As a side-project to my IT Consultancy business, I have developed a software product which I intend to sell. The URL for the new product is at http://www.scichart.com I am partnering with...

Payments International

asked Feb 19 '12 at 08:21

Andrew Burnett Thompson
193 points

I have been working on a startup for some time now, and a couple of weeks ago we came up with an idea for a pivot (the original startup isn't getting the traction we were expecting). To avoid the...

Marketing Apps Beta Landing Page

asked Jan 23 '13 at 10:52

Willvv
138 points

I'm new to freelance designing for clients, I normally did things just for myself or for friends when they needed something done and I had a free minute. I've also worked at a retail store that...

Billing

asked Sep 13 '13 at 23:50

Oghma Osiris
131 points

I am currently looking at job opportunities and the two most enticing are either a developer at a medium sized company or i have been offered a job at a new startup. The money at the development...

Recruiting Decision Forecast

asked Nov 8 '09 at 20:13

Sev
31 points

If a candidate does not follow up after a job interview should I automatically dismiss them as a candidate? I have interviewed a number of very qualified candidates for a position that I am hiring...

Hiring Interviews

asked Nov 5 '11 at 02:12

Dan Male
108 points

I know there are a number of business plan questions already, but my question applies to a specific aspect of the process. As my partners and I are researching and developing our plan, I've been...

Angel Business Plan Business Investors

asked Jan 14 '11 at 10:14

Matt
180 points

How do URL shortener services make money? Like https://bitly.com/, http://qurl.com/, http://urltea.me/, http://blue.gg/ There's no ads whatsoever on those sites. I'm really curious, so they are...

Website Money

asked Jul 24 '11 at 02:38

Pacerier
317 points

There are a variety of tips for YCombinator, but we haven't been able to find anything related to TechStars. Anyone out there have experience with them?

Incubators Application Seed Funding

asked Jan 4 '10 at 05:42

Greg Belote
798 points

We are a SAAS startup with an average MRR of $300. We are planning to have both in-house and outside sales agents (without salary but 20-30% commission). What is the sales commission model you...

Sales Saas Salary

asked May 28 '11 at 06:01

User8226
197 points

We are a small shop that have developed a platform for developing applications that can run both in the cloud and on premise, A PAAS offering. You could compare it to Microsoft XRM or Salesforce -...

License

asked Dec 11 '10 at 05:47

Fredrik Tonn
40 points

We are thinking of launching some applications on the mobile platform. However, I am not sure which platforms we should target among, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and Android. Any thoughts on which...

Ideas

asked Mar 7 '10 at 14:47

Kabir
96 points

I'm looking to patent a method/core of my web app. It's actually pretty simple. What's the chance of me getting a patent for it?

Patent

asked Apr 2 '11 at 12:00

Matt
141 points