Questions

My start up business will be a social service that also hooks to a mobile application. I want my users to be able to interact with my service over their phones or on their PCs. Naturally I'm...

Community Web Services Mobile

asked Mar 28 '11 at 18:35

Long Winter
271 points

By building a better product I mean taking what is an existing product area that sucks and making what you believe is up to modern technology standards in terms of UX and deployment model (say web...

Products

asked Jun 26 '11 at 12:27

Tinny
404 points

My co-founders and I have agreed on a completely even split equity of 1/3 each. In our operating agreement,however, we need to put down the percentage ownership stake for each of us, and aren't...

LLC Equity

asked Oct 13 '11 at 02:40

Three Way Llc
23 points

We've got a few competitors, one of whom is the "Big Fish" in the market. I've priced all of them out, and they have various pricing models - each different from the others. And the "Big Fish" has...

Pricing

asked Nov 18 '09 at 05:21

Josh Sam Bob
1,578 points

How much does office space for startups cost in Seattle? I'm thinking of nice places for startups, like Lake Union South, but also places like Bellevue and Kirkland. What are the options?

Real Estate Office Space

asked Dec 14 '09 at 11:42

Joel Spolsky
13,482 points

A customer has found a serious security flaw in my software, over a year after their support period has ended. Should I provide a free update? The upgrade price is substantial, so I don't want to...

Pricing Security

asked Jan 12 '11 at 23:32

Steve Hanov
596 points

My two-person education startup is looking to move to San Francisco for personal and business reasons. What are the possibilities and tradeoffs of where to live/work? Our general (somewhat...

Location San Francisco

asked Feb 7 '11 at 07:35

Derek Dahmer
306 points

Especially when working on a startup, the more time consuming tasks you can outsource, the better. Is there a forum or community that would be a good resource for ideas on how to outsource more...

Outsourcing Virtual Workforce

asked Feb 24 '11 at 01:38

Mike Nicholaides
121 points

I am working on my first web application, and can't figure out whether I should use a CMS like Joomla or Wordpress, or have the site built from scratch. For some background, the site will be sort...

Development

asked Nov 14 '12 at 05:53

Jdh
182 points

We're looking at a possible seed deal right now. It's $750K from a firm who has a current fund size around half a billion. I have two questions. Has anyone ever seen a seed deal where the firm...

Venture Capital

asked Nov 12 '09 at 08:29

Tommy Maddox
156 points

What are people's perspectives on a start-up that has or doesn't have a physical location or phone number listed on their website? My site is currently still in Beta and I am still making...

Location Phone Website

asked Jan 25 '11 at 13:06

John
161 points

what do you need to pay for the board of advisors in a startup? Do the advisors generally ask for equity share ? if so, what would be the average percentage we need to give?

Advisors

asked Apr 16 '11 at 06:06

Sakthy
45 points

I have led an established IT-company in Ukraine for several years now. The company's business is in the different fields, including an outsourced software development. Currently I realize that I am...

Software Development Outsourcing

asked Sep 26 '11 at 02:43

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

Consider a common situation. A patent troll owning US patents finds a fresh target, decides to threaten it, his lawyer looks up the company address and surprise! it's not in the US. Let's say it...

Patent

asked May 15 '12 at 07:53

Borr
21 points

We're a two-member team operating from Asia but incorporated in Delaware (for various reasons), and we'll soon release our first webapp. Since the target audience of our app would be US and...

Customer Support Outsourcing

asked Dec 23 '12 at 05:04

Nimbuz
174 points

I am going to embark very soon on a software venture (have been a consultant and employee up until now). I see advantages in signing up for Microsoft's BizSpark. However, I wonder if doing so...

Funding Bizspark

asked Oct 17 '12 at 11:40

B. Clay Shannon
123 points

6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Founders Vesting

asked Apr 30 '13 at 08:23

Ileftearly
21 points

We have a few questions here about the conferences worth attending but I'm trying to nail down some conventional wisdom about budgets allocated to conferences. All things considered from merely...

Marketing

asked Oct 15 '09 at 04:29

Paul O'brien
521 points

I've long been of the opinion that the core assets of a software company (e.g. source code and any system that touches it, continuous integration environments, internal wikis containing...

Outsourcing Infrastructure

asked Oct 23 '09 at 13:57

Cemerick
123 points

Me and my co-founder are talking a lot about how we want to sell our SaaS product. (The product is E-commerce software/website, integrated with E-mail marketing providers, Google AdWords, Website...

Software

asked Nov 18 '09 at 06:04

Martin Hn
234 points