Business Questions

I have an LLC set up, and am learning my way with regards to keeping books etc. I was told recently that I can use the business bank account to pay up to 50% of my rent (being that I am the owner,...

LLC Business Bank Account

asked Nov 26 '11 at 20:14

Zakman411
174 points

I setting up a marketplace style transaction system and I was wondering what an acceptable time period for refunds would be, On one hand it would be nice to get the money to them immediately on the...

Business Business Process

asked Nov 16 '11 at 05:24

Bluemoon
136 points

I've registered myself as a sole-proprietor business in Ontario, Canada. My common-law partner often helps me with organization and other tasks. I want her to be legally able to purchase supplies...

Tax Canada Business Family Sole Proprietorship

asked Nov 17 '11 at 05:03

Philip K
166 points

My business partner and I are forming an LLC. As I understand, members of an LLC are not employees and therefore are not on payroll. Instead they pay themselves by taking a draw from the LLC...

Funding LLC Equity Business Partnerships

asked Nov 20 '11 at 03:41

Sheehan Alam
194 points

I'm building a startup of P2P model that will work with a payment gateway. But I have a problem with that, in my country the formalities to have a payment gateway are very slow (take about two...

Getting Started Payments Website Business

asked Nov 20 '11 at 09:40

Eberto
6 points

I am currently working on a new start up, we have some capital and are currently "trading as" the potential new company name, through an existing business. My question is do I need to register...

Business Naming Trading

asked Nov 21 '11 at 18:06

Cubed Eye
150 points

So... in a startup... im the techie/developer of the business, my partner is the business side. While, I'm developing this elaborate application... what should he be doing? What do business people...

Partner Planning Business Business Process Partnerships

asked Nov 5 '11 at 10:52

Meow
56 points

I've had this idea in my mind for a while now and I wanted some of your opinions on this. I'm a PhD student in Computer Science. I feel like the inventions that many students do just go within...

Ideas Entrepreneurs Business

asked Nov 7 '11 at 05:09

Sunil
128 points

Say I wanted to start a business that relies heavily on electricity (though not induction-heavy electricity, like welding or the like would produce, standard electricity used used by computers). A...

Getting Started Business Low Cost Costs

asked Nov 9 '11 at 21:54

The Piachu
113 points

I am quite experienced in the field of Web Projects and I have a capital (500.000 $). "I am planning"\"I would like" to create a "great" Web site and I noticed that I have two choices: assign the...

Marketing Software Website Business

asked Nov 11 '11 at 20:52

User12882
108 points

I'm trying to look at some existing business-cases/feasibility studies to get an idea of what all to include and how to approach it. I'm sure there is no need to reinvent the wheel, but it seems...

Business Plan Business

asked Oct 25 '11 at 15:50

Ph D
422 points

I am looking forward to register business in UK (England), currently we are still in development of software but, next year we should be launching it live for the people. This is going to be a...

Sales Business Model Business

asked Oct 25 '11 at 16:42

John
38 points

I would like to know roughly how the payments are done if the company was started by two developers and me, owner. Let's say, I give them 10 % each, thats 20 % of the company's profit product....

Finance Business Model Business Accounting

asked Oct 26 '11 at 21:50

John
38 points

I've spent the last 10 months building a product to help salons manage their businesses. Throughout the development process I've been spending time with salon owners, salon managers and stylists to...

Customers Business

asked Oct 29 '11 at 11:07

Jason Swett
555 points

I would like to know if registering trademark for software in some countries is too expensive for us and we develop a software which is hard to copy, can we survive without trademark for software?...

Sales Software Legal Business

asked Nov 1 '11 at 22:30

John
38 points

What is the name for a company that contracts with other companies to mass produce products? And how hard and what is the process to get a contract of such for a small startup?

Contract Business

asked Oct 24 '11 at 11:58

Michael Grigsby
111 points

I'm involved in a pre-startup situation, with a small company about to start real operations. Initially they will have one dedicated office with dedicated telephone lines, one office admin person,...

Business Communication

asked Oct 25 '11 at 04:08

Jim In Texas
228 points

Maybe it's just semantics, but I am putting the word out that my biz will benefit from either. We have pushed a product off the shelf and are starting to acquire customers, yet the effort has...

Co-Founder Business Partnerships

asked Oct 9 '11 at 02:31

Richard H.
175 points

I've created a fairly successful iOS app that sells for $9.99 in the App store. It brings in about 75k per year and has been featured twice by Apple since launch. In the past few months, three...

Software License Business

asked Oct 11 '11 at 16:29

John
16 points

I'm interested in understanding the state of what I'll call "desktop micro ISVs" in the U.S. in 2011. By this I mean one-person computer software companies, creating desktop computer software, and...

Software Business Micro Startup

asked Oct 13 '11 at 12:48

Chelonian
146 points