Questions

It is pretty clear that money alone is not sufficient to motivate a programmer. Things like giving them meaningful, challenging work and providing a supporting environment can motivate them far...

Sales Motivation

asked Apr 10 '12 at 13:01

Graviton
871 points

I have only seen this being done for football players that have running contracts that will expire in a year's or two year's time and want to make it easy for the next football club to sign them...

Contract Employers

asked Apr 10 '12 at 18:23

6152142613526
68 points

I've read that the online image editor app http://www.picnik.com closes. How should a competitor react on such a message? What marketing measures are the right ones to reach users that are looking...

Marketing Competition Online

asked Apr 10 '12 at 19:40

James
16 points

Being an independent artist, if my business is in my legal name i.e. "John Smith" do I still need a DBA to get an LLC ? The bank was asking for a DBA.

LLC Legal Documents DBA

asked Apr 11 '12 at 00:33

D Magone
11 points

Over the past four years, my business partner and I founded a company that is planning on selling B2B software. We have been paying the developers to create the software, thus keeping full...

Equity B2B

asked Apr 11 '12 at 01:07

User17410
5 points

I am starting a software company. We will start with one service in particular, but will expand from there. My question is, is it reasonable to pay developers in equity alone? Also, seperate...

Software Equity Payments Apps Developers

asked Apr 11 '12 at 02:41

User51648
9 points

Our company appears to be close to getting our first investment -- term sheet but no cash delivered -- and we know we need to get in the habit of keeping this investor and any future ones up to...

Investors Communication

asked Apr 11 '12 at 03:22

Dmoore
46 points

This Thursday I will be filming for a Canadian TV show where I will be pitching my software to 5 Canadian millionaires to invest in. The TV show won't air until September. The software is...

Software Pitch Patent

asked Apr 11 '12 at 07:51

Mike
11 points

I'm a student, and I'm interested in making apps/websites. Thus, I registered for a Student account with App Hub {WP7 dev program.} I also made a website where people can play my HTML5/JS based...

LLC Naming Corporation

asked Apr 11 '12 at 10:57

Java And C Sharp
101 points

There are couple of apps similar to Instagram, such as Hipster, Pixl-o-matic, Lightbox, PicPlz & Retro Camera. Why did Instagram make it over the others?

Getting Started Analytics

asked Apr 11 '12 at 19:28

Newton
133 points

I am a US citizen living as a permanent resident in Australia (married to an Aussie). I need to incorporate and have been advised to get an 'off the shelf' Delaware Corp. We are considering moving...

Incorporation

asked Apr 11 '12 at 21:30

User17432
11 points

What are the types of situations (or examples) of when a small, resource strapped company should divert resources from other areas (product development, email newsletter) to Facebook? Some general...

Social Media

asked Apr 11 '12 at 23:52

Clay Nichols
737 points

I recently registered a co.uk domain name which I was hoping to use as the site for an e-commerce business. After registering I checked companies house and found there is already a registered Ltd....

Ecommerce Legal Company Domain

asked Apr 12 '12 at 00:00

User20236
133 points

If a company is already in bankruptcy, but wants to engage my services or buy my product, what should I be aware of? Is that just a completely dumb idea? What can I do to protect myself?

Bankrupcy Clients

asked Apr 12 '12 at 01:17

Larsenal
106 points

Currently I am stuck in a messy situation where I am the only designer/developer for the web driven start up, along with being co-founder, the other two co-founders (business guy and editor), are...

Co-Founder Development Startup Costs Entrepreneurs Website

asked Apr 12 '12 at 03:23

Izzy
6 points

I asked a question about this before, but things have changed. I developed software for basketball and football teams. I have sold 32 copies @ $20 each doing virtually nothing. I wrote a few...

Software Pitch Investors

asked Apr 12 '12 at 03:40

Mike
11 points

I have an SAAS product that competes with a number of others. I thought of an idea to create a duplicate product, that does exactly the same thing but with a different name and look-and-feel (the...

Products

asked Apr 12 '12 at 13:46

Mick Aus
11 points

Possible Duplicate: Online Sales Tax: location based on transaction server, shipping address, CC, or location of purchaser? My company is UK based but many of my clients are based in the US,...

Tax International VAT

asked Apr 13 '12 at 02:20

Jon Winstanley
101 points

I'm building a pitch deck for an internet startup. I've read other financial projections and pro-formas which have quite irrelevant accounting. Our main expenses are simply server costs --...

Sales Pitch Financial Deck

asked Apr 13 '12 at 10:53

Delos Chang
101 points

Last year I opened a single-member LLC. This is my first year doing the business taxes. Naturally, I have lost my EIN. (This isn't exactly true; I have a hardcopy, but I've recently moved and am...

EIN

asked Apr 13 '12 at 11:59

Poundifdef
114 points