Questions

Part of starting a startup with a foreign partner is notarizing documents. Some documents are in non English language. The documents need to be notarized in the US. I contacted some notaries and...

Legal Documents

asked Dec 29 '11 at 11:41

Tony Henrich
283 points

I know I can place ads on Google with Adwords, target ads to individuals' interests on Facebook, use an ad network that distributes my ad broadly, or even buy ads on specific individual...

Strategy Resources Web Advertising

asked Oct 20 '09 at 11:26

Chris W. Rea
688 points

I've got a short snappy name and url, an end user focused mobile app/service that uses user generated content and a wireframe of a minimum viable product that I'm pretty happy with. I'm in the...

Apps Design Mobile

asked Apr 12 '11 at 18:08

Long Winter
271 points

I have an idea for a company and I want to share it with potential investors. I'm a bit concerned about my ability to protect the idea. Should I get them to sign an NDA? Would that scare investors...

Legal Investors Intellectual Property NDA

asked Oct 18 '12 at 05:56

Sarah Simpson
23 points

I'm starting a new venture and its already making money and I want to hire a salesman to replace me and allow me to do tech full time What should I look for in a software salesman? Which questions...

Interviews

asked Nov 26 '13 at 10:23

Nur Ne
186 points

A close friend of mine wants to start an Internet business and he offered me to be his partner. I will be responsible of building the website and deal with technical issues. He will be responsible...

Shares

asked Dec 13 '12 at 09:32

Bmm
121 points

I need to form an s-corp in Delaware. The corporation will be taking on angel funding as soon as it is formed. I have retained an attorney experienced in the formation & funding processes. The...

Funding Incorporation Accounting Seed Funding

asked Nov 11 '10 at 09:13

Alex
23 points

I was reading an interview, and the entrepreneur was asked if he had any funding for his startup. He answered with " I need to scale up first". What does he mean by this ?

Scale Scaling

asked Feb 7 '12 at 01:03

Nikolai
125 points

I am in the very early stages of my first startup. I am not technical so I was wondering if getting a technical cofounder should be my first step or if I can go it alone with just my idea at first?...

Co-Founder CTO Founder Technology CEO

asked Jul 29 '12 at 06:23

Peter
21 points

We are confused between choosing a domain for our small niche website. We've following options: VCVC.net domain (V = Vowel, C= Character) It is 4 letter, pronounceable, and abbreviation of our...

Getting Started

asked Mar 2 '13 at 21:37

Oneblueearth
21 points

How many of you have a co-founder in another country that you've never met in person? Is this plausible for a startup? An example of this is DHH from 37signals but I don't know any other so I...

Co-Founder

asked Oct 13 '09 at 00:42

Tiago
333 points

I started a new job at a startupish (2007) company, upon looking at how their system works. I found problems with their database, software, and overall project management. This isn't just errors or...

Employees Problem

asked Apr 26 '11 at 02:30

Scottix
21 points

I have a startup company. We have an angel investor who is willing to invest $50,000 in the company for a company share of 33%. That leaves the 67% of the company share for my business partner and...

Business

asked Jul 17 '12 at 19:20

Mark
21 points

I know that Dropbox sits on top of S3. I want to provide a service that offers the first 2 gigs of storage free. How are services like Dropbox and Evernote able to pay their data storage bills...

Cost

asked Jan 13 '11 at 03:40

John Wright
123 points

I have a few ideas that I need to validate. Is there any offering that lets me quickly create MVP sites? I'd need: Website design template A way to capture user's email address so that they can...

Development

asked Feb 18 '11 at 12:54

User3462
345 points

Basically, why should one incorporate in the US? I'm interested in three cases: 1 - Most of the revenue and employees are in the US. 2 - Most of the employees are in the US, but the revenues...

Incorporation Legal Tax Localization

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:41

J Delage
277 points

I work on a website that is backed by a database with a lot of product information. Much of this information is user generated. I would like to know if there are any copyright issues around...

Copyright

asked Jul 22 '11 at 07:32

Josh Cutler
21 points

I have a possible opportunity to sell a small web application that started as a personal project and got a significant amount of press. The company that may buy it would benefit from owning the...

Website Statistics Selling

asked Feb 1 '12 at 11:42

Fred
23 points

In The beginning Around one year ago we build a software company, we needed to quit our jobs, get financing, a product, legal work, accounting work, clients and partnerships with providers. we...

Equity Partnerships Agreements

asked Oct 31 '12 at 05:19

Sd Reyes
156 points

I'm currently in an intellectual property dispute over software I developed in a new start-up (Canadian corp). It was written under the false pretense that I would have 25% ownership of the...

Software Incorporation Canada Intellectual Property

asked Nov 11 '10 at 09:27

Adrian Schneider
456 points