Incentives Questions

About a year ago I started working with a remote subcontractor, who has done some really great work for me since then. It is an ongoing project, and he has been very responsive and easy to work...

Incentives Management Sub Contractors

asked Jun 6 '13 at 22:19

Contrazoom
186 points

During its mission to raise popularity in the midst of the dot-com boom in '98, TravelZoo gave a few free shares to each person who signed up for their mailing list. Hypothetically, let's say I'm...

Marketing Incentives Incorporation Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Sep 2 '12 at 14:24

Maxim Zaslavsky
101 points

I am currently employed by a company whose core business is not IT-related but I have developed a few applications that are central to some crucial business processes and I want to create a startup...

Incentives Equity Employers Intellectual Property Conflict Of Interest

asked Jun 1 '12 at 02:02

Assylias
103 points

My partner is the founder and I am the co-founder of our company. He has a sales background and I have operations. We agreed for him to have more equity (50/30) as the company/products were his...

Sales Incentives Compensation

asked May 13 '12 at 04:45

Alex
31 points

I was offered a specific bonus amount on top my hourly rate if I could complete a project by a specific deadline. I met the requirements for the bonus. It's time to invoice and I'm wondering if I...

Incentives Invoice

asked Mar 17 '12 at 16:12

Dustin Davis
272 points

I started planning a new web service. I started to write some effect maps to define primary goals that are basically related to growing numbers of: site traffic user registrations user shopping...

Getting Started Incentives Shopping

asked Jan 6 '12 at 22:27

Robert Koritnik
308 points

I'm starting my first company (software for Reputation Management) and will be contracting 3 guys; 2 full-time paid and 1 who is doing work pro bono. As it happens in the early stages of companies,...

Incentives Stock Options

asked Apr 18 '11 at 00:55

Kamila
11 points

I have treated my first few business customers of my software product very well. They are senior managers of medium sized companites. My problem is that I cannot get them to sell my product in...

Marketing Sales Incentives

asked Apr 6 '11 at 07:31

David
1,567 points

We are planning to form a company for online e-commerce sale and would like to know which is better location - Austin (TX) or Delaware for the following: Ease of formation (we are in India, and...

Incentives Incorporation

asked Jan 11 '11 at 03:32

Manuj
51 points

We're a software startup with annual revenue in the ballpark of half a million. We're completely bootstrapped, and have no current plans to take funding. We currently have 4 employees. We're...

Incentives Employees Human Resources Stock Options

asked Dec 11 '10 at 04:28

Polemarch
301 points

I would like to give away $25 Amazon gift vouchers as a strategy to get people to use my bootstrapped startup. What's the best way to give the vouchers away? I would like to give them to the first...

Marketing Incentives

asked Oct 3 '10 at 00:35

Venturesocially.Com
241 points

I remember at one point a startup will switch from offering ISO (Incentive Stock Options) to offering Non-qualified Stock Options (NSO) to employees? Can the startup decide which to offer, and...

Incentives Tax Human Resources Stock Options

asked Apr 25 '10 at 00:34

J Lynch
16 points

I am feeling the effect of seeing DISQUS on certain blogs in that it makes me more likely to comment. Is this true for others here? Does any blog/site owner have data on increased comment counts...

Incentives Recommendations Website

asked Feb 22 '10 at 01:27

Eric
352 points

Do you reward your users when they contribute to the product (for example - with detailed bug reports)? I'm wondering if we should give them a couple of weeks of free service, or maybe a discount...

Incentives Users

asked Feb 22 '10 at 11:53

Slav Ivanov
1,146 points

Based on your experiences, I'm wondering if any of you had any advice on the percentage can I expect to earmark for ISO pool when incorporating? 10%? 15%? 20%? Thanks!

Incentives Stock Options

asked Mar 3 '10 at 06:31

Newyuppie
441 points

I'd like to brainstorm with some others on what you think are options for "incentivising" users to use a site in a community. eg. things like user retention, and increasing the odds that people are...

Incentives Community

asked Dec 25 '09 at 08:56

Matt
460 points

Joel Spolsky is always writing about how companies should treat and offer the best to their developers in order to be able to get the best of them. As a startup, when the time comes and you do need...

Recruiting Hiring Incentives Developers Engineers

asked Oct 10 '09 at 12:44

Ricardo
4,815 points