Ethics Questions

I am in a complicated situation and would appreciate advice from experienced founders and also investors so I take the right ethical course and also avoid legal issues. I am the CTO of a small...

Equity Venture Capital Ethics Investors Pivot

asked May 29 '18 at 23:35

George84
1 point

I run a small consulting operation and I have taken on more clients than I can service on my own. There is a contractor who can I sub-contract the extra work out to, who will do the work in the...

Ethics Consultants Contractor

asked Apr 18 '14 at 18:11

Pauline Larrick
7 points

A customer asked us to build a small web application. We charged them to develop it and had a clause in the contract which stated we "reserve the right to re-use any code written for this...

Contract Web Saas Ethics Apps

asked Sep 10 '13 at 19:52

Big Tuna
349 points

Given that to be protected by copyright, a picture must be original/unique, I have read on the internet that the "product pictures" (of general use products like fridge, mobile phone etc.) are not...

Legal Website Ethics Copyright

asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:07

Data Smarter
1,274 points

Hi fellow startupians, I've recently gone into a venture with a friend. He is a business/marketing student, and I am a Comp Sci/Math/Econ/A million other things student. Before we moved down to...

Development Legal Employees Ethics

asked Jul 30 '13 at 07:24

Jdero
128 points

I got a request for a proposal to create a web application. The application would be used internally by a company to manage aspects of their business process. Coincidentally, the proposed...

Bootstrapped Ethics Apps Web App

asked Apr 5 '13 at 06:27

Mohamad
121 points

Is it ever okay to send emails regarding your start up to a scraped or purchased list? Is this okay in any scenario? For example, if my start up sold software for managing mobile-hairdressing...

Ethics Email Email Marketing

asked Feb 17 '13 at 10:00

Anonymous
557 points

For a few months now, I have been developing a web application for a "non-profit" (unofficial, more on this later) of my own accord. I'm the only one who has written the code, it was my idea in the...

Legal Ethics

asked Dec 9 '12 at 07:57

John Doe
13 points

I'm about to release a software as a service targeted at university students. Through the university I currently attend, I was able to export the global email address list (this information is...

Marketing Ethics Email

asked Sep 22 '12 at 16:31

Josh Tfs
13 points

A sales lead is currently working with one of our competitors, and said they'd happily switch over, so long as we we could make the changes to handle things in the same way as our competitor...

Ethics

asked Oct 3 '12 at 02:21

Jeff S
374 points

Suppose there's a site that runs a blog about computer hardware and on one of the blogs about dealing with old hardware stuff, a blog reader asks something like 'Looking for possible online sites...

Marketing Legal Ethics Internet Marketing

asked May 2 '12 at 08:59

User16659
18 points

So I've got a startup with a three friends of mine cofounding and on board. We used to have a fourth. When we originally started and got all of our documents in order, the fourth girl received a...

Co-Founder Founder Ethics

asked Apr 14 '12 at 07:00

Sdchargers
26 points

I've been working for large private software company (the last round of investment was very, very large) and my offer letter told me I would receive X number of options as long as the board...

Legal Ethics Stock Options

asked Mar 16 '12 at 00:54

Rox0r
125 points

I'm a bit confused at the moment... hope someone can help me out. I'd like to hire a temporary internet marketing team to promote my website on the internet. I'd like them to promote it on...

Marketing Legal Ethics

asked Feb 28 '12 at 09:00

User16659
18 points

Being a libertarian, I am completely honest with all my business-transactions, business-offerings and partnerships. From a marketing perspective, would it be beneficial to post my business-plan on...

Marketing Advertising Website Business Plan Ethics

asked Feb 9 '12 at 02:57

A T
38 points

I know that it is very difficult to gauge a candidate's attitude / work ethics from the start. What are the most important things you look for a candidate that will be fit for a startup software...

Getting Started Hiring Employees Ethics

asked Jul 27 '11 at 14:29

Joset
161 points

Is ethical for an employee quitting to start a similar business? What do you think?

Employees Ethics Business Morality

asked Jul 31 '11 at 01:54

Sd Reyes
156 points

I plan on working in the pattern recognition software industry. Some research into this industry led me to read about a company called “Nuance Communication.” According to this techcrunch article,...

Patent Ethics Intellectual Property

asked Jun 14 '11 at 04:28

Amichai
241 points

One bad client is all that's needed to destroy the reputation (and possibly livelihoods) of any growing consultancy or service business. It is easy for clients to spread lies, file complaints...

Legal Ethics Reputation Client

asked Jun 22 '11 at 02:05

Mqv
52 points

Adobe CS5, for instance. Is the risk solely that the publisher could sue, or is the property that I create with the pirated software also in jeopardy? And as a corollary, what if I use someone...

Legal Ethics

asked Mar 28 '11 at 04:30

Amit
146 points