Questions

These days most apps support both ios and android. But which one would be the best to get done first? What are the pros and cons of either way? We want to launch a closed beta and get as many users...

Apps Android Apple

asked Jul 11 '12 at 09:29

Mugetsu
143 points

I consider contacting a few potential angel investors through E-mail, for my yet to be founded startup. My Executive Summary is ready to be sent, but I'm wondering if its safe to send it right...

Angel Business Plan Investors

asked Jul 22 '12 at 02:51

Orchestrator
149 points

I have a free iOS app that's popular in a modest sense. Daily active user count has been growning steadily: it's approximately doubled over the last 6 months. At the moment it's around 2100 daily...

Monetization Mobile

asked Jul 22 '12 at 08:36

Sunday Monday
167 points

I am a student from Germany, and I want to start a company in the US. I've given starting it here first and then eventually expanding to the US some serious consideration, however, the chances of...

Getting Started Foreign Visa Startupvisa

asked Jul 22 '12 at 08:43

Alex
51 points

Q1. Does every account (PayPal,Sendgrid,Heroku,AWS,Mailchimp) need to be in a company's name to make the company liable for anything that might go wrong, not the founders (to a reasonable degree of...

Incorporation Legal Liability Paypal

asked Jul 22 '12 at 16:41

Dmurtagh
157 points

I'm wondering what influences the CPM for ads in mobile apps. I'm fairly new to the whole ad game so any insight into CPM basics is helpful. For example monthly, annual and seasonal variations. I...

Advertising Mobile Mobile Apps

asked Jul 11 '12 at 14:01

Sunday Monday
167 points

as software developer, i can't understand how does software's like SMPlayer or VLC or UMPlayer do there revenue , they all open-source they all downloaded Millions of times they all professional...

Revenue Open Source

asked Jul 22 '12 at 21:40

Meir
238 points

Me and my partner are working on an idea for a text (SMS) service that we intend to pitch to the National Health Service in the UK as it could potentially save them a lot of money. However, minus...

Ideas Investors Service SMS

asked Jul 11 '12 at 16:57

Sebastian
101 points

I have a few ideas for a company, and plan to get started sometime this fall. I know of an accelerator that focuses on this vertical, and I have contacts there so reaching out to them would be...

Funding Venture Capital Intellectual Property

asked Jul 11 '12 at 17:00

Lenwood
151 points

I have developed a local upcoming events web page, that aims to deliver the events in a different way than other similar services. The event organisers will list their events but at a cost. My...

Strategy Business Model

asked Jul 22 '12 at 23:49

Nikolai
125 points

We are planning for a software startup and following is our setup. There are 4 people who came up with idea. But these people can NOT code and build a product. These 4 people are also going to...

Software Equity Founders Agreement Team

asked Jul 11 '12 at 21:24

John M
8 points

One of my new ventures is a site that will be Stack Overflow for predictions. Hopefully it will be a high traffic site with many inbound links and targeted keywords. Assume all the risks bear out...

Advertising Revenue

asked Jul 11 '12 at 21:32

Steve French
621 points

Will you ask your site competitor's member to join your site by sending message to them through competitor's site (like maybe sending message,mail etc)? Do you think members who received such an...

Marketing

asked Jul 12 '12 at 02:48

Simplyme
186 points

I am starting a new startup that operates a local online business directory where you can find businesses (much like YP.com or superpages.com.) I am divided between the two revenue...

Strategy Monetization

asked Jul 23 '12 at 10:37

Jacob Hart
6 points

The common wisdom is that when creating a product you must solve a problem or need people have. For example, Facebook solves the social problem, and Evernote is your "second brain". However, it...

Marketing Problem Solving

asked Jul 23 '12 at 18:46

Maximus M
136 points

Ok, I want to sell software online. To boost conversion rates I want a really short and sweet sales form, because people hate long forms. So, what are the minimum things I should ask for. I guess...

Sales Entrepreneurs Conversion

asked Jul 23 '12 at 18:54

Mashup
15 points

I like the idea of creating an online course. However, I have never done something like that before. My idea is: Create an online course about a field I know a lot about and charge for that. So...

Marketing Entrepreneurs

asked Jul 23 '12 at 18:55

Maximus M
136 points

We have 2 potential types of companies we can work with: Type A: major corporation; salesman / consultants that work for the head company Type B: still a major corporation, but with branch offices...

Pricing

asked Jul 12 '12 at 22:06

Lsiunsuex
103 points

I've been part of a small team at a startup (LLC) for about a year and a half now (since inception), working unders a PSA (Professional Services Agreement) that grants me a "membership interest"....

CTO Legal Independent Contractor Web App

asked Jul 13 '12 at 08:37

David Oritz
8 points

How bad (or good) is it to say something like, "We plan to exit via an IPO" on exit strategy to an angel investor?

Angel

asked Jul 13 '12 at 10:41

Yos
6 points