Questions

Just looking for some examples on what other people use as a pricing model for their enterprise software. Does anyone charge based on # of employees (not # of actual users)? We figure the # of...

Pricing Enterprise

asked Feb 16 '11 at 03:49

Big Tuna
349 points

I am thinking of hiring my staff from my competitor's firm, are there any legal issues in doing so? Both for my firm and for the new joining staff member? Additional details: To be more specific,...

Hiring Legal Hire

asked Jun 30 '11 at 02:05

User8226
197 points

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is cut-bait, and walk away from a venture. What factors are the most important taking this leap?

Venture Investment Selling

asked Oct 16 '10 at 06:03

Blunders .
899 points

My company is being acquired by a public company (both US based). When we were all hired, our employment contracts stated we'd be granted x number of stock options. I'll say 250,000. That was 3...

Venture Capital Acquisition Stock Options

asked Jan 15 '13 at 03:53

User23535
28 points

I'd like to get some input on appropriate commission structures for a hardware vendor re-selling my company's add-on software that works with their products. I've read a bunch of the commissions...

Saas Commission

asked Mar 9 '13 at 03:43

Joe
26 points

I plan on using Paypal for a monthly subscription service and would like to know how to handle the Upgrade/Downgrade/Cancellation from users: For cancellation, is it recommended to develop the...

Payments Subscriptions

asked Jan 15 '11 at 10:17

User3462
345 points

What is involved in starting a bank? I am aware that rules might differ from country to country. But let's say I wanted to start an online bank in the US. What is needed?

Getting Started Finance Bank

asked Jan 28 '10 at 03:35

Thom Pete
1,296 points

Recently we received a letter from Dun & Bradstreet asking us to update our profile with them. Based on the information we received, they position themselves akin to Equifax, TransUnion, or...

Credit Rating

asked Mar 29 '12 at 12:05

Karlson
1,779 points

What other resources are available to learn about metrics in general and other topics such as segmentation, conversion, KPI etc. Dave McClure has a good presentation up on...

Marketing

asked Oct 11 '09 at 07:01

Tsummit
116 points

I asked a question recently here, discussing options for what to do in my current situation. The other co-founders let me know they no longer think I deserve 20%, and I decided it was the last...

Intellectual Property Licensing

asked Mar 29 '12 at 12:56

Phil
210 points

As a 1-man show I've been building a social startup for the last 10 months. A lot of the time on development has been spent learning a new programming language (Ruby on Rails) and also all the...

Getting Started Launch Product Launch

asked Sep 29 '12 at 22:54

Rubytastic
139 points

My SaaS startup has gained some early traction (a slowly growing number of paying customers built up over our first few months after launch). It's now time to "step on the gas" and grow the...

Sales Saas

asked Nov 30 '12 at 04:23

Bc Web
101 points

Here's my situation. A year ago I outsourced a website to be built. Went into it blindly, failed miserably, lost tons of money. Moved on. In the meantime, I've come up with a new concept for a...

Getting Started Co-Founder Development Web

asked Dec 12 '11 at 02:41

Adam
26 points

When building a website in a bootstrapped startup, is it better to hire a web designer or outsource the work? All of the founders are coders and don't excel in web design. Apart from that, if the...

Hiring Outsourcing Design Web Dev

asked Mar 9 '10 at 23:53

Slavo
316 points

Recently my government announced they are lending funds for entrepreneurs. Not sure about the interest (which I will find out later), but their terms is first 3 years no repayment needed, then on...

Funding Government

asked Apr 4 '11 at 02:55

Victor
593 points

I have been working on a web product for over a year now and I've finally gotten to the point where I've finished integrating the payment / subscription / credit card processor into the product,...

Payments Legal

asked Jul 24 '12 at 00:42

Kristian
141 points

What are some hurdles you'll come across while hunting for a job after trying to build your own startups (unsuccessfully for 5+ years)?I'm a software engineer. I'm a generalist who does many other...

Jobs Failure Entrepreneurship

asked Mar 19 '14 at 19:13

Mike Steve
40 points

Our company is investigating a couple of outsourcing companies and operating models and one that we're starting to lean towards is the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model with a firm that has some...

Outsourcing

asked Dec 12 '09 at 02:06

Phil R
81 points

Tumblr has that follow and stumbling upon features which might aid discoverability of your startup company blog, but it seems to be very SEO unfriendly. I have not used posterous. And self-hosted...

Blog

asked Mar 10 '10 at 00:56

Eric
352 points

This question might sound dumb, but I'm at a complete loss of what to do. My friend and I discussed starting a web site business years ago. For about a year and a half, we met every other weekend...

Legal Partnerships Shares

asked Mar 10 '13 at 23:42

Mimi
26 points