Questions

By targeting multiple segments, we have to price our software according to different schemes. We are currently thinking about defining a "per project" license. We are doing the following...

Pricing

asked May 9 '11 at 23:00

Pillona
355 points

This is basically a ripoff of this question, but for windows only. I am building a public website that will handle user data. This website is built on an Authentication system that I would like to...

Hosting

asked Dec 1 '10 at 01:38

Shawn Mclean
220 points

I understand the marketing basics on keywords and the use of tools like Google Insight, Keyword traffic estimator, and others. My concern comes from a product that people usually don't search...

Marketing Advertising Website

asked Mar 23 '11 at 10:22

Geo
268 points

Is there a widely recognised 'best place of business' for global social-media style internet businesses, and what are the considerations? Considerations I'm thinking about are taxation, regulation,...

Legal Tax Corporate Structure

asked Nov 25 '10 at 19:48

Trish
186 points

I am a graduating senior in college studying computer science and machine learning. For the past year, I have been working with two other people on what we think is a pretty fantastic idea,...

Ideas Investors Intellectual Property

asked Feb 9 '12 at 06:57

Jon
137 points

When you are a solo founder with no employees, what do you do to avoid procrastination and always be executing? I have tried blocking access to all time-wasting sites in my router. But how do you...

Solo Entrepreneur Founders

asked May 5 '14 at 13:20

Latonya Schindler
21 points

I am considering creating a solution, which would save large companies time. I am certain that they would save this time, so I am willing to sell my solution for a price that is proportional to...

Pricing Business Model

asked Jan 23 '11 at 08:11

David
1,567 points

Joel's answer on "If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?" certainly was an interesting read. However, it was pretty much centred...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Sep 30 '11 at 01:23

Pepijn
123 points

While many people talk about the new paradigm of outsourcing technical skills to India or China, there is much derision among technical blogs and people about business people getting into the job...

Website Technical Web Services

asked Dec 12 '09 at 09:28

Seth
21 points

So I'm in a little bit of a tug of war with some other cofounders on our project. We've just started out after spending alot of time on the BP and that side of things. The other...

Development Design

asked Jul 9 '10 at 21:20

Wil
273 points

This is an actual problem we have to decide on with our startup. Help me decide! SCENARIO You are doing a startup. You have launched, you have customers, revenue and some traction. You are growing...

Strategy Development

asked Oct 22 '10 at 19:48

Scott Handsaker
21 points

I'm working in the infant stages of a SaaS platform and we're working on estimating cost. Right now our hosting and bandwidth expenditures are relatively low as we have only one customer, but we...

Infrastructure

asked Oct 12 '09 at 13:27

Andrew
21 points

I just started a business (startup) and wanted to do the right thing by having a bank account for the company and putting all the business expenses on the business account. Now, I am in NY and I...

Finance Revenue Accounting

asked May 3 '12 at 00:24

Ariel
138 points

So many Bitcoin related startups have landed money from popular VCs. Who all claim that it's the next biggest thing.If that's the case, why not just buy the actual currency where you're likely have...

Investing Venture Capital Bitcoin

asked Mar 21 '14 at 13:42

Darla Page
40 points

My business partner lives out of state (in WI), but our business is going to be an LLC in WA, where I live. We don't have any paid employees just yet (shoot, we aren't even getting paid yet!),...

LLC EIN

asked Apr 4 '11 at 12:45

Jason Mc92
123 points

How do you get people to know about your new app with no contact and how do you get content traction at the initial stage of a web app? I'd like to believe in 'users will come along if your app is...

Marketing

asked Dec 7 '09 at 10:24

Chhuang
21 points

I'm developing a startup website like groupon.com for daily deals. I'm located in Nigeria and I have my system developed already. I started marketing it myself, but this business model seems to be...

Marketing Sales

asked Sep 26 '10 at 05:54

Stanley
59 points

Business accounting and legal work are mundane-but-required tasks for any startup. However, until the company is large enough to hire on dedicated staff for that work, how do you find qualified...

Outsourcing Legal

asked Oct 16 '09 at 05:02

Marcus L
21 points

And if business insurance is worthwhile, at what stage should a startup consider purchasing it? After the release of a product or launch of a service? Or is it good to have it in place from the...

Insurance

asked Nov 2 '09 at 04:40

D Thrasher
894 points

Testimonials can be a useful marketing tool. I wanted to toss a bunch of questions out to see if someone with some experience in the area can provide feedback and guidance. Are there times where...

Marketing

asked Nov 27 '09 at 03:31

Oleg Barshay
2,091 points