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We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization: Premium model : Buy...

Business Model Monetization Freemium Donations

asked Feb 20 '12 at 22:22

Xavi Esteve
223 points

One of the issues many small companies in the US run into is wanting to hire an employee (who let's say will work from his home) that lives in a different state. I've found that some of the...

Hiring Tax

asked Dec 23 '09 at 09:31

Dane
1,866 points

I'm a developer who has just sorted out part time consultancy work which I would like to use to maintain myself while bootstrapping a SAAS startup as a solo (for now) founder. Given that I'd like...

Incorporation Consulting Tax

asked Mar 18 '11 at 03:28

Macca
131 points

Looking to bring on some developers and using sites like Vworker.com. While looking for prices to offer I'd like to get an idea of what is a good price and a poor price for developers in different...

Salary Human Resources Budget

asked May 19 '11 at 06:29

John Bogrand
2,210 points

A former co-worker of mine has started an LLC that is owned 100% by him. He has asked me to assist him in market research / analysis and sales, based on the theory that I will come on board and be...

Partner Legal Termination

asked Nov 25 '09 at 19:02

Jz199
59 points

This question is related to one of my earlier posts about the ability to copyright sudokus. I have written a program that generates sudokus and I want to make a website with these sudokus. It seems...

Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 9 '11 at 01:19

Jbranchaud
168 points

Many companies going to the opensource route these days. Jetbrains is one example of a company that opensourced their well reknown IntelliJ IDEA after been commercializing it. Some company has...

Marketing Open Source

asked Dec 23 '09 at 10:12

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I current own my own business and make quite a bit of profit. Well I am looking into other things and found some friends that have a good idea that I am interested in. These friends only have the...

Co-Founder Investing Investors

asked Oct 24 '11 at 04:46

Cappy
26 points

I am working on a hardware-software combo B2B startup in Seattle. We've only been around for 2 weeks on a part-time basis. We are two somewhat experienced software/web devs. Together we secured a...

Sales Co-Founder Business Team

asked Dec 4 '13 at 14:45

User2990504
21 points

I think I understand stock dilution (and I know in quite some cases it's not bad to get diluted) but I was wondering (it's mostly curiosity but I still think it's an interesting question for...

Equity Legal

asked Jan 22 '10 at 08:10

Tristan St.
180 points

we built an idea management system at the Taipei Startup Weekend (a few days ago) and were delighted to finish second. This morning we've found that a competitor, one who's clients include FedEx,...

Strategy Competition

asked Aug 18 '11 at 11:00

Dmurtagh
157 points

I have a software product that is a complex sale. I need someone to help me sell this product or coach me on how to make sure I am aiming at the right target and closing deals. Would you pay a...

Sales Mentor

asked Apr 23 '10 at 23:14

Stacey
484 points

I got the docs for my LLC and EIN, is there anything I should fill out or must do after setting up the LLC? The LLC is for a internet startup, offering a service free or charge, but might have ads.

LLC

asked Jan 15 '11 at 07:53

Jason Glib
96 points

I want start a business around selling baby related items to moms and dads. I have quite a number of friends who are going to get married/are going to have a baby/already have a baby. So I already...

Customers Market Research

asked Jun 29 '13 at 16:32

Graviton
871 points

My wife has an offer from a company in NYC and the contract says specifically that she would be an independent consultant for a 3 month trial period, and not an employee of the company during that...

Contract Consulting Non Compete

asked Dec 5 '11 at 12:36

Nick Larsen
128 points

I wrote an app that works on an auction site by doing dynamic bidding on the user's behalf given his login details, i.e. manages his auctions for him automatically. The user not only gets better...

Trust

asked Mar 24 '13 at 21:07

Siamii
195 points

I would like to know what is the best way to hire someone to help you building a web-site. I heard about guru.com and elance but I am not convinced that I can get someone from there who can help me...

Development Outsourcing Website

asked Feb 25 '10 at 06:54

Gyurisc
143 points

I asked this question over on hacker news, but I thought this might be a great place to ask as well. I'm working with an early stage startup, and one of the co-founders wants to demo our mobile...

Demo

asked Nov 18 '10 at 18:23

Jammur
121 points

When starting a new company, it is curial to get the right team in place, or the business will never go anywhere. While it is possible to go at it alone, co-founders can be a great asset, if they...

Co-Founder Partner

asked Oct 25 '09 at 04:14

Ron Ga
2,181 points

I heard that core development of product should be done in house. I'm having a web app built by 2 reputable developers (Freelancing) here in the states, is that a bad thing? They are already half...

Development

asked Jan 15 '11 at 08:21

Jason Glib
96 points