Questions

For a start-up providing a web-app to customers on a subscription basis, do you think that the benefits of different geographic pricing outweigh the downside? My rationale is that while North...

Pricing Subscriptions Saas

asked Nov 1 '09 at 18:56

User1084
363 points

Its a common feature of many sites... the "Email a friend" link that sends an email to the users' friend(s). e.g. something like: Hey {friends name} , I found this great site called...

Marketing

asked Oct 27 '09 at 10:31

Scunliffe
310 points

I've read a lot of questions asking about how an MBA can find a technical person to implement their idea, but I haven't seen the other direction. As a technical person, I know that I can get my...

MBA Co-Founder Hiring Technical

asked Oct 27 '09 at 05:37

Paul Mc Millan
601 points

My, to put it mildly, understaffed and overworked startup is trying hard to not reinvent the wheel and outsource as much tasks as possible. So we are currently on the look out for a great project...

Software Project Management Recommendations

asked Oct 11 '09 at 06:09

Slav Ivanov
1,146 points

I'd really like to assemble a Board of Advisors, but I'm not sure how to start. I've found that being kept accountable to someone or a group of people can really serve to meet business goals....

Board Advisors Networking Mentor

asked Oct 10 '09 at 07:18

Danpickett
263 points

I've spent the last 3 months full-time building an alpha version of a web app, and developing a business plan for it. The alpha version is ready to launch. Recently I've stumbled upon the fact that...

Getting Started Legal Patent Intellectual Property

asked Apr 15 '13 at 05:45

Amindfv
186 points

I'm a software developer and co-founder of a start up that's in a sprint to launch a web app the next 2 months. We have about 3 months of burn time we have before we need to get some funding. By...

Hiring Compensation

asked Sep 28 '12 at 03:58

Acjohnson55
181 points

Received this email today. A customer approaching the end of their trial period is demanding my financial statements. How should I respond? As part of XXXX's supplier management program, it is...

Enterprise

asked Nov 9 '11 at 12:54

Steve Hanov
596 points

So wondering how you guys deal with the huge irrational emotional swings involved with startups. I try to: Re-focus Organize my work-space List the current things on the priorty list and get to...

Stress

asked Sep 11 '11 at 00:39

Nextgenneo
327 points

From what I read there are two basic types of business recommended for a single person business (in the US): Sole Proprietorship LLC My wife is looking to start a business for blogging/selling...

LLC Startup Costs Tax Sole Proprietorship

asked Sep 9 '11 at 23:20

Joel B
163 points

Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place. For this question and answer, we will tackle the Promotion...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Advertising Promotion Canon

asked Aug 1 '11 at 06:46

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

So you understand our scope : We are a custom software development company who have 2 primary markets Mid sized companies who have ongoing internal needs for...

Sales Software Recommendations B2B Consulting

asked Apr 18 '11 at 15:46

Robin Vessey
8,394 points

I've came across a job post for a software engineer position at a recent startup. The responsibility included pretty much everything that involves programming. I would be an employee, and will not...

Jobs

asked Apr 17 '11 at 01:03

Russell
180 points

I founded an open-source software project for voting about 8 years ago. It has been mostly a solo project, and it is very successful in that it is by far the most well known and most used software...

Non Profit Open Source

asked Apr 16 '11 at 07:46

Kekito
1,936 points

I'm currently working full time for an employer of mine. I've run numerous small business on the side, including a web software company, a web design company, and a forum... but now I'm working...

Venture Salary

asked Mar 15 '11 at 22:58

Nick
1,171 points

I'm a one man startup with a high price, low volume, niche software product that I'm considering selling in the US. However, I'm concerned that it may infringe a US patent without me knowing...

Legal Patent

asked Mar 14 '11 at 18:14

Steven F
66 points

Why is Dropbox so much more successful than many other sites that offer/offered essentially the same service?

Pricing Business Model Competition User Interface Service

asked Mar 11 '11 at 23:05

Zippy
871 points

I know this is a broad question (and a sensitive one) but would be interested to know some stats. If using Google's AdMob service for your android app, can you provide an indication of realised...

Monetization Advertising Android

asked Feb 17 '11 at 16:15

Giulio
163 points

I'm curious as to what the everyone thinks the "best" landing page services are for a cash-strapped startup. I'd like your thoughts if you've extensively used (not just poked around with a free...

Software

asked Feb 15 '11 at 03:39

Andy Cook
2,309 points

I'm about to launch a new web startup in less than a month. It'll be a freemium web application which will offer a Facebook-related service with various pricing plans. I'm still a bit unsure on...

Promotion

asked Feb 11 '11 at 23:57

The Coding Monk
163 points