Questions

I have a hobby/side project which I am quite serious about. I have been working on it for about ½ year, but have figured out I needed more people on board for it to become a success. I have found a...

Equity

asked Jun 28 '13 at 19:37

Dofs
73 points

I'm condsidering moving to the Valley as one of the options for myself as an entrepreneur I am concerned about the medical insurance. In my home country medicine is formally subsidized by the...

Health Insurance

asked Feb 12 '10 at 05:43

Kirill Blazhko
393 points

Last month I was offered for an equity on a startup venture. It's an online store focus on selling customized toys. Their business models looks good and promising. But I just have few doubts and...

Equity Business Partnerships

asked Mar 6 '12 at 23:38

Pennf0lio
140 points

I have identified a niche community, for which I want to build a social network. From compete.com, I see that the TAM is at least 10K unique active users. Their web activites revolve around an...

Charging Strategy Payments Social Network Lean

asked Nov 14 '09 at 11:38

John
96 points

My question concerns a new business: I belong to a team or software developers. Up until now, we've each done our "own thing", as self-employed workers. Altogether, our business takes place in the...

Getting Started

asked Jan 27 '12 at 22:03

Chu
21 points

Does anyone have suggestions for a tool to keep track of customer support requests, bugs, and questions? Recommendations for the best way to keep track of employee time spent on these issues would...

Customer Support

asked Jan 15 '11 at 05:41

Andy Cook
2,309 points

I'm looking for a good intro book on Sales done the right way. Focusing on the customer's needs and problems. Low-pressure selling. Being willing to disqualify a customer. Basically, my sales...

Sales Books B2C

asked May 30 '11 at 01:47

Clay Nichols
737 points

For the last 5 years I was in a PhD program and I'm currently in the writing phase of my thesis. In addition I work on my startup, for the last 4-5 months. However, due to limited time, the startup...

Day Job Time Management Fulltime

asked Jul 25 '11 at 21:22

Dyn Zack
216 points

I've been working on a web app for 4 months, and did some usability testing with about 10 people today, with mixed results. Some people said they hated my design, others had no comment about it,...

Launch Website

asked Dec 17 '11 at 14:36

Mark Hill
33 points

Currently, I am working as a Web Developer and looking to start an online business in my spare time. My Project is to create an ecommerce website, initially in the UK, for the latest mens and...

Ecommerce Online

asked Aug 13 '11 at 01:47

Awais
23 points

A couple years ago, I started a group/team of passionate people in game development. I was the one who had the idea to form a group that will (hopefully) later be a company/real studio. I was the...

Gaming Company Salary Profit Sharing

asked Oct 9 '12 at 19:12

Drowneath
21 points

We are a creative studio who depend on new ideas and new IP to survive. Many of our staff (naturally) are quite creative as well, and as such don't want their best ideas taken by the studio - where...

Contract Intellectual Property Innovation

asked Dec 7 '12 at 11:34

Brook
21 points

My [business] partner and I are constantly arguing about how we should do certain things for the SaaS we are creating and we reach a conclusion and a good decision (i think) after hours of aruging...

Choices Partner Decision Saas Team

asked Feb 20 '10 at 01:30

Abs
21 points

As many of you - who do not live in the us - surely know, it's near impossible to find an online merchant account/payment gateway other than paypal standard for non-us based businesses. If there's...

Payments Business Business Services Merchant Account

asked May 30 '11 at 03:38

Sotkra
141 points

Generally, I'm asking, what advantage did the company see in switching to RSUs over options?

Stock Options

asked Feb 3 '12 at 00:22

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

One company wants to buy 10% of another company (ours), and one of the conditions of purchase requires the placement of code in escrow. With any change in the company, which sells 10%, including...

Code Escrow

asked Jul 19 '13 at 00:31

Dementiev
21 points

I think I am pretty good (having dealt with tons of contractor developers) at staying within independent contractor rules and keeping the Labor Department at bay, when it comes to using...

Hiring Legal Virtual Workforce Independent Contractor

asked Aug 10 '10 at 08:17

Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points

Not that I have any reason to suspect that this would happen, but to be diligent, I need some advice on this. I have been invited on board with a promising new Software as a Service web project,...

Legal Founders Agreement Software Licensing

asked Oct 22 '10 at 05:31

Bomb Defused
227 points

I own a company that performs computer repair and help etc online via remote support. There is no physical location for a customer to come in and drop their computer off. With that being said,...

Marketing

asked Aug 18 '11 at 08:13

James
133 points

I am on H1 b visa and my employer posted the perm ad for EB2 green card now. I plan to buy an existing business in my area of expertise, and has 1Million loan approved from the bank.I plan to 1....

Startupvisa

asked Dec 5 '11 at 08:28

Sat
23 points