Questions

Ok I invested in my business and built the software, now got to run it! If I hire my friend, to do all this business, and I do all things technical. How should I pay him? 1) salary 2) with...

Equity Entrepreneurs Salary Partnerships

asked Dec 17 '10 at 17:35

001
167 points

My wife is an optometrist of ten years and is ready to stop working for someone else and start her own establishment. She is very well liked by all her patients and since moving from NY to NJ last...

Getting Started Business

asked Jan 4 '11 at 02:36

Kacalapy
129 points

I am slowly starting to sell our software through resellers and distributors (one man shops all to way to major Software distributors.) Given my lack of experience, I am wondering what details...

Sales Distribution

asked Jul 19 '11 at 09:36

Danny
21 points

Is there a site, or resources, for a development team in need of a start up? I'm in a bit of a odd situation here, in that I built a development team of 6 people for a privately funded social...

Employees

asked Sep 12 '11 at 23:58

E Barr
123 points

For an e-commerce site accepting payment information, I am being told I need to get an SSL Certificate. My hosting provider offers it for $99/year plus $25 initiation. Prices vary greatly -- e.g....

Website Security

asked Oct 4 '11 at 06:27

D Moore
174 points

I'll soon be releasing my software product. It's much better than some of the existing products out there. My competitors make it easy to find who their customers are. Do you think it's ethical for...

Customers

asked Apr 13 '12 at 16:24

Grant D
23 points

Which is better for a startup to focus on if you have to put all your resources into one basket?Pretty much every startup focuses exclusively on SEO efforts (which take a long time to get results,...

Marketing Traffic SEO Promotion Media Buying

asked Jun 25 '14 at 13:25

Joyce Hundt
22 points

My company needs to have a US address for getting insurance and other services from US providers, despite us being based abroad (in Canada). Can anyone suggest a good provider of an inbound...

Virtual Workforce Office

asked Feb 19 '10 at 03:08

Michael
250 points

Does anyone have much experience with finding office space for a small startup (less than five people) in the UK? There are more and more places out there offering eBuisness or Start-up...

UK Office Office Space

asked May 11 '10 at 01:10

Alistair Collins
181 points

In the United States a retirement account like a 401K or an IRA can be incorporated as a "self-directed" account. A self-direct account provides you check-book control over your retirement account....

Funding Investment Investors Seed Funding

asked Mar 22 '11 at 13:30

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

If there is a co-founder with 20% equity in the company but no salary, what is his status in the company? Should he be considered an employee? What is the difference between a cofounder and an...

Employees Founders

asked Jul 19 '11 at 12:21

Anil
45 points

I got a request for a proposal to create a web application. The application would be used internally by a company to manage aspects of their business process. Coincidentally, the proposed...

Bootstrapped Ethics Apps Web App

asked Apr 5 '13 at 06:27

Mohamad
121 points

If you have some money in account then how much to invest it for own startup? better to invest only certain $K and get other from Angels or other sources? What's your experience?

Funding

asked Oct 28 '09 at 03:44

Web Thinker
430 points

Since Authorize.net is US/Canada only, I am wondering if there is a Austrlian counterpart to them providing service similar to them? What are must have, Recurring payments One time...

Payments

asked Mar 30 '10 at 20:44

Shabda
159 points

I think we are all faced with this issue: we got an application from someone and we don't want to accept it. The most typical case is for employment. In my project I get many more types and very...

Hiring

asked May 19 '10 at 04:50

J. Pablo Fernández
412 points

I am a web developer and I am currently self-employed work with several companies on different projects. As I am also thinking of building start-up. And I don't own a team, I work alone by far so...

Getting Started Legal

asked Sep 13 '11 at 01:46

Safran Ali
272 points

We are a new company and have developed an online service that we want to charge a monthly fee to use. So far, we have tried two merchant account providers and have been turned down because we are...

UK Merchant Account Payment Gateway

asked Feb 2 '12 at 19:10

Woo Hoo
193 points

This topic was touched on in a fairly general abstract way in another post, but I'd like to put the question based on these specifics. Here is the business: Consumer internet web app Freemium...

Freemium Seed Funding Fundraising

asked Oct 22 '13 at 19:00

Seven Dials
21 points

More specifically, has any of you managed to convince both financial support, and getting additional technical talent to support the expansion of a startup concept/prototype? If so, where and how...

Recruiting Venture Capital Angel Technical

asked Apr 18 '11 at 08:50

Stanigator
133 points

So I am currently developing a web project with is SaaS, I'm committed to the project, but in order to judge the market while I work on it I was considering doing a some blogs post about the...

Saas Beta Product Launch Press Release

asked Oct 22 '11 at 10:04

E Wizard Ii
150 points