Getting Started Questions

Working with a business guy to develop an application. I'm looking to have it complete say March-April, 2012. At what point do you involve beta testers -- a day before the expected launch? How does...

Getting Started Testing Beta

asked Nov 18 '11 at 00:53

Meow
56 points

I have someone's name, address and number. However, I have never met or spoke with him, and he has no idea who I am. I know he has a need for a specific kind of software, which I can provide. How...

Getting Started Communication

asked Nov 18 '11 at 23:48

Amar
26 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

we are 2 developers that have been working for a consultancy doing a mobile app for about a year, now we are ending our contracts. The enterprise that has contracted our actual/anterior...

Getting Started Entrepreneurs Team Profitability Cost Estimation

asked Nov 22 '11 at 14:33

Tyoc213
41 points

I have a business idea and would like to start up my own company (providing solutions to theme parks). I could write the software in my own time however im worried starting a business whilst still...

Getting Started Recommendations

asked Nov 22 '11 at 23:52

Tom Squires
1,047 points

I was reading through this blog post http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/72696/DON-T-start-a-company-yet.aspx and i totally agree and that is what I am trying to do. Even though I want to start...

Getting Started Startupvisa

asked Nov 23 '11 at 01:58

User995487
28 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

At what point in a boot-strapped startup do you know its time to go for the gold and have both co-founders go full-time with an idea? Currently, I'm the sole technical person. I'm finishing up...

Getting Started Bootstrapped Fulltime

asked Nov 10 '11 at 10:16

Meow
56 points

What specific actions lead to getting users to try your new product?

Getting Started Strategy Saas User Experience

asked Nov 12 '11 at 07:56

Chris
11 points

How do I reach out to the entrepreneurs all over the world easily? Here's the thing. I am (along with a team of entrepreneurs too) working on a project that is supposed to match people...

Getting Started Startup Costs

asked Nov 13 '11 at 22:18

Mathias Lykkegaard Lorenzen
106 points

Ok basically I have good ideas for both but i just need to know where to start. which market is less harsh/competitive and easier to step into and learn the ropes between the two( I know none are...

Getting Started Saas Market Analysis Apps Web App

asked Oct 28 '11 at 00:53

I Scotts
152 points

All nice names are already taken. I want to know that if a domain already exists but I attach some character in the beginning/end of the already registered domain name and get registered, is it...

Getting Started Website Domain Name

asked Oct 28 '11 at 18:51

Naveed
108 points

I am part of an LLC and have heard a lot about operating agreements and founders' agreements. What are the differences between the two for an LLC?

Getting Started LLC Legal Legal Documents

asked Oct 29 '11 at 00:38

Li Zhou
323 points

We are a startup but not incorporated yet. We have someone who is interested in working part-time for equity. Is it ok to give him offer letter and offer some stocks which vests over 4 years? Does...

Getting Started Equity

asked Oct 29 '11 at 05:04

Gagan
150 points

I want to have my brand strategy in place when I finally launch my startup. I'm not sure what the best strategy is for a multiple product brand. I see some brands like 37signals have a different...

Getting Started Strategy Branding

asked Oct 29 '11 at 19:49

I Scotts
152 points

My friends and I have been brainstorming lot of ideas in the past month or so. We spent two days to discuss one idea, searched it on web, checked different options, made a rough design and then we...

Getting Started Advertising

asked Oct 30 '11 at 02:37

Mutant
133 points

We started freelancing. However, most of our projects have failed because we had to do what we are not experienced with. For example, say our expertise is ASP, but we can't wait for ASP projects to...

Getting Started Products Failure

asked Oct 31 '11 at 13:17

D Shan
68 points

Being tired of doing stuff that turned out to be far from what users actually need, I think now it's time to ask potential users first (think lean startup mantra) before doing anything. The idea...

Getting Started Pitch Customer Feedback

asked Oct 31 '11 at 17:52

Anton Gogolev
136 points

I need an advise on starting my work on my ideas. I am doing job for 5 years and a senior Java engineer. I have great some thing inside, to bring my ideas in execution and to see myself as a...

Getting Started

asked Oct 17 '11 at 06:04

Tahir Akram
118 points

We looking for interns to work with us (yumety) ( machine learning, supervised algorithm ) - anyone knows how to contact interns?

Getting Started Bootstrapped

asked Oct 24 '11 at 10:12

Debasish
46 points