Questions

I own and operate a company selling products online. A partner is stepping in and wants to sell our product line across it's websites. However, my company will accept the payments from the...

Finance Legal Financial Accounting Money

asked Apr 18 '12 at 00:49

Alexandre H. Tremblay
186 points

I just started a developing company. We are 4 partners. Two of us are programmers. Our start-up is slowly growing — we have a customer and few persons are interested to invest money. Now we need...

Partner Growth

asked Sep 27 '10 at 23:57

Vikingosegundo
126 points

I've been approached by two startup heavyweights who offered to recommend me to VCs and angels for my startup (I'm the sole owner). They've asked me what percentage of equity I would offer them in...

Board Advisors Funding Angel Seed Funding

asked Oct 19 '10 at 01:19

Sherif Buzz
462 points

My start-up is finally coming together; however, I am in dire need of a solid sales team to go out into the market and attract customers. I want to pay them per store they sign-up. Can anyone refer...

Sales Employees

asked Jan 12 '11 at 18:20

User6528
149 points

For the past year I have been developing a VERY niche based review/community site, in the healthcare field. I did as much h/w as possible in searching for competitors, and there were zero direct...

Strategy Web Competition

asked Nov 2 '11 at 14:09

Jdh
182 points

Is there a good resource (book, blog, etc.) that would explain me step by step how to execute a rigorous market research? Where can I find market data such as market size, market share, etc.? Any...

Market Analysis Market Research

asked Feb 4 '10 at 17:36

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

I am helping a friend with some short to medium term scenarios/ projections for a business plan. I worked out some failure scenarios as in if the business folds in 6 months we will be able to...

Funding Recommendations Business Plan

asked Jun 7 '11 at 20:04

Gerhard
150 points

There are lots and lots of startups that succeeded. They prove that the idea behind them was good just as much as the implementation and marketing and all that stuff were good. Then sometimes a...

Ideas Market

asked Oct 26 '09 at 16:56

Kender
166 points

Does software alone have any value to sell? If your start up fails for whatever reason but you have a software product built but not patented can you sell your company and to whom would you...

Acquisition Exit Strategy

asked Jun 10 '10 at 03:13

Stacey
484 points

I've made this clear in some of my other questions, but for the sake of getting a more diverse viewpoint I'm asking a separate question. I'm 14 years old, but really passionate about web design. I...

Pricing Web Design Rates

asked Jul 2 '11 at 06:30

Purmou
147 points

I have an idea of a social web-app and am seriously consider to have my own startup on that. So I would like to ask, what are the major expenses of running a web-site? Specifically, what are the...

Planning Website

asked Aug 16 '11 at 01:32

Im Chc
38 points

I have recently been tasked with developing an online portal for the real estate agents. I am planning to make the code as generic as I can so that I can use it as a product for the other industry...

Best Practices

asked Dec 22 '10 at 01:57

Ncakmak
180 points

I'm sure many of you have been in this situation before, where you want to quit your day job to focus more on the startup you have built. Currently I'm having a hard way to tell my employer that I...

Employees Ethics

asked Oct 26 '09 at 18:54

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I'm in a town with a relatively young startup community and I'm looking to start having some kind of gatherings. It is a university town, and there is a quasi-state-run startup accelerator here,...

Networking

asked Jan 30 '10 at 01:10

Frederick Cook
301 points

I'm the tech guy and doing a lot of technical development for the startup. How long does one wait around for the business people to get funding from VC's and Angels? is there a ballpark of how...

Getting Started Funding Venture Capital Angel Investors

asked Jul 22 '11 at 04:51

User9968
229 points

background. We are developing a product which can be repurposed to target many different industries. We have spoken to several marketing companies who have recommended creating a 1 or 2 page...

Marketing Internet Marketing

asked Feb 6 '12 at 12:46

Robin Vessey
8,394 points

CAC = Total Cost of Sales & Marketing / # of Deals Closed My question is - How do you allocate your total cost of sales and marketing if your development team is doing all the demos, follow up...

Metrics

asked Mar 5 '11 at 06:07

Andy Cook
2,309 points

I would like to know if you guys have any tips on where someone can see for example, how's the wine market doing or the toys market doing world wide or US only. I have been looking around but I...

Reports Market Research

asked Mar 24 '11 at 19:03

Diogo Da Silva
36 points

I plan to sell software and add "the software comes with no warranty and should not be held liable for loss of data" and etc. I also plan to offer on-site training for the software. 'Support' will...

Canada Liability

asked Apr 12 '11 at 11:10

Stu R
66 points

The subject is the question. How can someone who does not know how to code contribute to a startup? Do you recommend that that member attempt to learn some basic coding so as to contribute to the...

Ideas Founders Business Non Technical

asked Jan 20 '10 at 11:23

Eric Amzalag
818 points