Questions

With the introduction of more versatile domain names, people have been utilizing subdomains and clever suffixes to create more unique domains (ie. del.icio.us.) I've also come across others that...

Branding Naming Domain

asked Mar 27 '11 at 10:40

Julian Lloyd
126 points

I know this question has been asked many times before in a plethora of different ways, but I couldn't find anything to help me out, so my apologies if this comes off as a duplicate of another...

Getting Started Marketing Strategy Competition

asked May 25 '11 at 09:49

Digital Sea
1,613 points

I am 18 but my co-founder is 17. (In other words, I am able to sign a binding contract, he is not.) We are getting ready to incorporate our startup — but is my co-founder old enough to start, and...

Co-Founder Contract Incorporation Shares

asked Apr 25 '12 at 02:23

David Kendal
28 points

Like many fellow startups that we know, we've started like with one technical wizard who know a lot of stuff and who knows now where everything is and how it works. The system has undergone a lot...

Getting Started Hiring Employees

asked May 3 '12 at 06:00

Michael Durrant
227 points

I am interested in whether you feel you have enough support around you as you build your startup. If you could add more support around you, what would it look like? Social, technical, financial?...

Support

asked Nov 9 '10 at 14:14

Susan Jones
4,128 points

I'm bootstrapping a software business for the first time. I worked in 'stealth mode' for one full-year and now I've got about 100 private-beta-testers loving the software (and already begging for...

Sales Payments Legal

asked Jan 5 '10 at 10:18

Tristan St.
180 points

Due to the new "Wage and Hour Law " in New York State, employers are required to have all new employees fill out a form at hire time and ALSO once a year. New York defers to federal regulation for...

Payroll New York

asked Jun 1 '11 at 06:19

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

It is not easy to do first startup. There are so many things which we don't know or we don't know the right way to do it. Do you have startup mentor? How do you find Mentor ? Does successful...

Mentor

asked Oct 29 '09 at 01:33

Web Thinker
430 points

I'm currently working from home, but finding this too solitary, and also need a change of environment in general so I'm considering moving cities. I think this is a great time to branch out of my...

UK Office Space Shares

asked Jun 1 '11 at 07:27

Ocharles
126 points

I would really appreciate your guidance and advice. Great community. I am a co-founder of a two year old start-up that is finally getting proper VC funding ($1MM injection). Currently, the...

Funding Founder Equity Fulltime

asked Jul 1 '11 at 05:09

Sbeekar
26 points

Just wondering if applications like Instapaper are legal and if so how? I've read around a bit and it seems that because the data is being sent by the bookmarklet from the users machine to...

Legal

asked Nov 8 '11 at 05:34

Vdh Ant
146 points

Specifically, I am interested in situations where: people jumped ship from a full-time job without much prior planning, and people who set a goal to eventually leave a full-time job and then...

Independent Contractor

asked Sep 22 '10 at 08:41

Nicholas Cloud
168 points

I was thinking that it would be nice for our company to have customer reviews come up when someone searches for us on Google. I know this happens for a lot of local business and it seems like a...

Google Testimonials

asked Mar 13 '13 at 05:32

Simon
165 points

A little background first - I am a co-founder on a small software startup that was founded in 2009. I am the developer while my partner (who came up with the idea) handles the business side of...

Partner

asked Nov 30 '11 at 05:23

Dnr
170 points

I am a start up, with no office. fairly new to Canada with no financial records. No website (only Domain name). Working from a rented room. I registered my company. Imported a small stock that is...

Startup Costs Business Model Business Plan Financial Budget

asked Aug 19 '11 at 13:23

Ramzi
26 points

Recently I put some effort into evaluating niches, but none of them captured me. However, I think I have some good ideas that in overall could form a usable software. The problems are: the target...

Niche

asked Nov 3 '10 at 07:45

Pestaa
143 points

When working on a startup which way will be the best? Developing from scratch or customize existing projects? Which of them will you choose? Why? I am already a programmer so both of them is ok for...

Development

asked Mar 3 '11 at 22:33

Erkan Balaban
160 points

We recently closed a first round of investing for 3 million and paid in excess of 150k for our legal fees. We used a reputable firm and were lead to believe that the costs would be around the 50k...

Legal Investment Fees

asked Oct 15 '12 at 22:37

First Time Enterpreuner
26 points

I have a startup idea that improves upon an existing idea in a uniquel and differentiated way. Let's call my idea "David". However, there exists a very large, well-known competitor,...

Competition Investors

asked Sep 19 '11 at 23:46

Li Zhou
323 points

We would like to ask for help in reviewing our plan. Not for viability of the business model but rather for clarity in explaining the plan. Does this function exist on this site? If not does anyone...

Resources Business Plan

asked Nov 3 '10 at 09:30

Xs Direct
275 points