Questions

Wouldn't I be more effective doing a marketing plan first - before working on a business plan? Everybody's working on business plans, and I know they include Market and Marketing information. But...

Marketing Business Plan

asked May 3 '12 at 22:22

Patrick Ny
300 points

I about to venture into a startup that will address two types of users who have a relationship with each other. Let us call one of them X and the other are their users (let us call them Y). My...

Bootstrap

asked May 3 '12 at 23:30

S. Francis
21 points

After asking about the taxation of fringe benefits for shareholders in an S Corp, it occurred to me that there could be two types of shareholders. Those who are silently collecting whatever profits...

Tax Benefits S Corp

asked May 3 '12 at 23:43

Jeffrey Blake
115 points

I am looking to provide rental items online, however it is important that I can take a deposit that will be returned after the usage of the item. I am aware of capture delay although my...

Ecommerce Payments Entrepreneurs

asked May 4 '12 at 02:02

Tom
116 points

We've got a software product going into alpha release and want to invite some super users to test and give feedback. I wonder if there's any sort of steps we should be taking to prevent the issue...

Ideas Legal Intellectual Property

asked Apr 26 '12 at 06:19

Yarin
147 points

I am in the process of starting a website to raise funds for school supplies to be donated to local grammar school aged children and want to contact some local business about using them as a drop...

Getting Started Donations Fundraising

asked May 4 '12 at 07:59

Renae
1 point

I have an offer on a table to join this really exciting venture at 50/50 split as a tech co-founder but the original founder insists on issuing me non-voting shares. He worries that he will loose...

Co-Founder Equity

asked May 4 '12 at 08:44

Tech Cofounder
21 points

This might be a really dumb question but I've heard of a few cases where VC's have purchased into a business and it made me wonder. Facebook's purchase of Instagram recently made me think to ask on...

Funding Venture Capital

asked May 4 '12 at 11:25

Lloyd
360 points

I have been doing a lot of research and so far most of them say that charging for an app is not a good idea. But what about ads then? Should I include ads in my new iPhone app? Or should I go with...

Iphone Android Ads

asked Apr 26 '12 at 15:07

Jeet Robert
1 point

This is my situation. I had an idea and wanted to start developing it into a product. I brought in my first "partner" which is a guy I work with on a regular basis, I kicked some ideas around with...

Partnerships Agreements

asked Apr 26 '12 at 16:11

Binary X
208 points

If a patent contains an ingredient in a product ,along with many other ingredients ,stated to be used for one application,would I get a patent on one of the ingredients for a use not stated and un...

Patent

asked May 4 '12 at 17:28

Peter
6 points

Are there any good websites/blogs which discusses about Complex website architecture designs when it comes to usability and Design. For example if some one wants to build websites like Amazon,...

Website Web Design Web Dev

asked May 4 '12 at 18:51

Krishna Reddy
16 points

Startup background I'm close to launching my first micropreneur-esque SaaS app (within 2-3 weeks). I've been building this app on the side over the past year or so while working my day job. Day...

Day Job

asked May 5 '12 at 01:59

Sarumont
111 points

I'm working on a startup based on my partner's idea. It's a social website. My partner is not not a technical guy but the one with the original idea, he had previous experience with a successful...

Web Design Shares

asked Apr 27 '12 at 03:58

Willvv
138 points

I'm a website owner and I develop in Yii so in short, I think I'm working with more or less the "best" PHP has to offer (e.g. PDO, OOP...etc). My primary website (which is not built in any...

Software Developers

asked Apr 27 '12 at 04:04

Well Hungarian
116 points

I've started a software consultancy and an large fortune 500 company has approached us for a project. it's an internal CMS that will take roughly 5-6 months to develop with a team of 3. This is the...

Software Enterprise Consulting Project Planning

asked May 5 '12 at 10:21

Jordan
8 points

I have a business website where I have the marketing and support pages for a Mac app that I've developed. I also bought the domain name for the app which has the format myappname.com. Should I move...

SEO

asked May 5 '12 at 13:45

Mike T
174 points

I have this brilliant idea for an educational gadget for children. I don't have patents filed yet but want to talk to VCs regarding funding. How do I protect myself?

Legal

asked Apr 28 '12 at 04:59

Kamal
1 point

I am about to build a proof-of-concept website, and I intend to build on it using "Lean Startup" principles. I have friends and acquaintances lined up to try it out, and I will solicit their...

Getting Started Lean Customer Feedback

asked Apr 28 '12 at 05:14

Dan B
118 points

I have a newly formed LLC in California which I did through Legal Zoom. I understand I need to be careful with cash flow (with respect to where it comes from and goes). I am also in the process of...

Funding LLC

asked May 5 '12 at 19:47

Jason
124 points