Getting Started Questions

I have a well paying job, kids, wife, and a mortgage. However, I got an idea that is not big, not hard, totally doable. I'm interested in the start up as a hobby but see it as potentially a long...

Getting Started Ideas Viability

asked Apr 15 '12 at 15:17

Forgottenkahz
6 points

I am planning a new E-commerce business and will be selling products that are only available from specific manufacturers. How should I approach these manufacturers when I currently have no live...

Getting Started Products Ecommerce Entrepreneurs

asked Mar 29 '12 at 22:48

User20236
133 points

A friend and I have a great startup idea which we plan to put into action at the beginning of the summer. We've also worked some revenues into our business model by allowing users to pay for some...

Getting Started Incorporation Legal Revenue

asked Apr 4 '12 at 10:22

Max Mackie
166 points

Once everything technical is said and done and we have a product to go live with, should we contact a lawyer? What kind of protection do we need from the "rotten eggs" out there? I know we need a...

Getting Started Legal Lawyer

asked Apr 4 '12 at 10:30

Max Mackie
166 points

I want to start a business fixing iphones/ipods. There is this site that I have been looking at that seems like the cheapest place to buy parts, but I would be buying them wholesale from China....

Getting Started Iphone

asked Apr 5 '12 at 11:42

Ironcyclone
1 point

My friend and I are about to launch our website in 6 weeks. We do not have a company registered yet. We are working on full time jobs and plan to set up a company once our website launches and...

Getting Started Marketing Technology Conferences

asked Mar 14 '12 at 02:21

Raj
24 points

My LLC was formed as of yesterday. I am now in the process of applying for an EIN through the IRS. The application asks for my business start date. I am an online business, and have not technically...

Getting Started LLC EIN

asked Mar 15 '12 at 08:11

User16817
63 points

we are a group of contractors and we have been working as senior developers for more than 15 years. We have worked in retailer, insurances and media agencies and we got a very strong back ground in...

Getting Started Software Developers

asked Mar 16 '12 at 19:32

Massimiliano Peluso
172 points

I have a startup with 2 co-founders (me and my partner). My partner is a programmer, whereas I am a half-programmer, half-designer, half-business guy. I have had exceptional experience with pair...

Getting Started Co-Founder Development

asked Mar 17 '12 at 17:41

Victor
593 points

I have managed to get myself a job as a graduate programmer in a games studio developing AAA games - but just barely. I was hired more for my ideas than anything else - frankly, I think they made a...

Getting Started Leadership Business

asked Mar 20 '12 at 21:06

Sir Yakalot
123 points

If you're based in U.S., it is not very hard to get in touch with the right people in order to transform an idea into a product. It's easy to get to conferences, to apply to different startup...

Getting Started Silicon Valley

asked Mar 21 '12 at 21:21

Claudiu Constantin
106 points

We are building up a new Digital Agency and we are creating our company web site. Because we have just started we don't have any clients in "Our-Portfolio" section nor relevant works that we have...

Getting Started Website

asked Mar 21 '12 at 21:56

Massimiliano Peluso
172 points

I am doing taxes for someone who had about $1,500 in 2011 expenses for a new business (sole-proprietorship) but no income. Can she deduct these start-up costs in 2011 or will she have to add them...

Getting Started

asked Mar 4 '12 at 16:02

Melinda
11 points

Just Started a business with some co-founders. How do I set up a system so that: When a co-founder is unwilling to work/cooperate with the rest of the team He/she is removed Thanks

Getting Started Co-Founder Team

asked Mar 7 '12 at 13:27

Tommy T
11 points

I am starting a mobile/web development outsourcing company. My development team (currently 4 developers) is moving to my starup from our prev. company, that worked in IT, but not in SD...

Getting Started Marketing Website

asked Mar 8 '12 at 04:26

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

I want to launch different web services which have different co founders under one company, And still keep them separated from each other? for example should one of the apps not do so well I don't...

Getting Started Strategy Legal Branding

asked Mar 9 '12 at 19:01

I Scotts
152 points

I am on an H1b Visa working for company A. My Green Card has just been filed. My friend is a Green Card holder working for company B. We want to start a start-up business as co-founders. Can...

Getting Started Visa Startupvisa

asked Mar 10 '12 at 07:48

Raj
24 points

I'm in the process of trying to establish my first startup. At the moment I'm working with a friend of mine on developing the idea, and we had already created a prototype for our product on a...

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Legal

asked Feb 21 '12 at 04:50

Orchestrator
149 points

Or are they isolated, where developers keep to themselves and sales people keep to themselves? Is there a need for developers to even collaborate with sales or marketing people, for example? Im...

Getting Started Team

asked Feb 10 '12 at 22:00

I Scotts
152 points

I'm seeing new startups use the "invite friends and earn cash" invite functionality. How can I manage my financial status with this process? Is it an investment in the short term or long term? Is...

Getting Started Marketing Internet Marketing

asked Feb 11 '12 at 05:25

Eberto
8 points