Questions

I am looking for recommendatins from the successfull entreprenurs on this forum to advise me on the best software technology platform to develop my web2 webapp on. The web2 app will potentially be...

Getting Started Technology Web 2.0 Web Application

asked Oct 12 '09 at 11:26

Aryanved
59 points

I am starting to get very frustrated, after 2 yrs of crazy amounts of work and $70K invested and having my website online for 1 yr I already have 120,000 monthly visitors but still can't monetize...

Strategy Ecommerce

asked Sep 4 '12 at 04:31

Daniel
66 points

I'm a one-man company, and a couple of months ago I shipped version 1.0 of my product after a year of beta testing. So far it has been successful; the product is selling and the customer base is...

Customer Support Customer Feedback

asked Jul 27 '12 at 23:03

Anonforthis
66 points

My co-founder simply comes to the office whenever he wants, some days he "prefer working from home" and such. I just can't stand the fact I am there 12+ hours and him less then 8. There is a lot to...

Co-Founder

asked Jun 9 '12 at 04:11

Anon
66 points

My team and I are nearing the launch of our initial product this August. We are wanting to develop a metrics-based system that will be implemented upon product launch that will determine founder's...

Equity Metrics Founders

asked Jul 6 '11 at 06:27

Travis Truett
127 points

I remember that Joel Spolsky said that for every 100k of yearly revenue, fogcreek will add another employee. And from my observation, this rule seems quite general among small software related...

Small Business

asked Mar 15 '11 at 19:14

Graviton
871 points

So currently, I am the founder of a startup company. It's only me unfortunately, and not sure if I should take on more partners or not at the moment. My concern is that because I am the sole...

Communication

asked Feb 2 '11 at 17:51

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

Now days its becoming increasingly difficult to get a decent domain name for company and products. Few are up for sale, but with high price tags. Any ideas for coming up with good domain names...

Domain

asked Jan 21 '11 at 14:34

Patelsan
76 points

If I have a consulting business, does it make sense to start another business (new legal entity) if I want to develop and sell a product? What if I have business selling B2B but want to start...

Business

asked Jan 12 '11 at 02:20

Sumrak
168 points

I'm negotiating a B2B licensing deal for some technology. I typically license it as a managed service, and don't share code, because I want to protect trade secrets. A new potential client is...

License Open Source Licensing SLA

asked Dec 3 '10 at 12:21

John
96 points

I have a software project that I'd like to release as open source. Its a quite complex tool that >50% of the industry i am in will use (i worked in it for a number of years, hobbyist and...

Sponsorship

asked Nov 22 '10 at 17:39

Frank B.
111 points

I was looking into joining BizSpark since it seems there is a ton of great benefits. My buddy and I want to create a startup using .Net technology, so how can this not be a win-win? We are going to...

Microsoft Bizspark

asked Sep 28 '10 at 22:43

Martin
1,340 points

Is it a viable idea to start a business without office space and relying on the possibility for employees to work from home? What should be considered as main factors a distributed team to be...

Team Remote

asked Sep 26 '10 at 17:47

Rem
352 points

Let's say you find another website with very similar content and operations. Is it okay to copy their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, tweaking it to fit your needs?

Privacy Terms And Conditions

asked Sep 22 '10 at 07:49

Superjoe30
176 points

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but can I use the logos of other services and companies on my site? Ie, if I wanted to put up a graphic of some services that relate to local internet marketing,...

Logo Intellectual Property

asked Aug 12 '10 at 06:27

Jim Shook
417 points

I'm about to experiment with Facebook ads and I'm wondering which performs better in terms of ROI: Facebook or Google? I've had some success with Google, so I'm looking forward to comparing. I'd...

Marketing Data Request Advertising

asked Mar 3 '10 at 05:09

Greg Digneo
86 points

If you could recommend just ONE, most important book, blog post or any other reading for startup founder - what would it be?

Books Recommendations

asked Feb 4 '10 at 05:54

Pawel A
191 points

We are a small software company with a process automation product. To do more sales, we would like to compare following options for next year: Hire a sales guy. Someone capable of doing cold...

Marketing Sales Saas

asked Dec 25 '09 at 18:28

Frans
66 points

I'm starting a web site with another founder that proof reads university and college student's papers and essays. Users upload an essay and pay us then they get an edited of the paper back and a...

Marketing Selling

asked Dec 20 '09 at 10:26

Vindexus
126 points

Some people tend to avoid Software as a Service due to the fear of vendor lock in. Therefore, you are losing customers by not offering a data export option. However, you don't want to be "helping"...

Saas

asked Dec 19 '09 at 03:44

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points