Questions

Where does the income of a "small" site like Bitly comes from when there are no ads or whatsoever involved in their operation?

Income

asked Mar 24 '12 at 19:27

Dot Net Student
117 points

I want to start up a frozen homemade food business. The food/meal should be just like we make at home. The sale will be like membership on the website. For example someone will buy dinner for 1...

Advertising Company Business Selling Business Food

asked Mar 24 '12 at 20:00

Ela Oktay
11 points

I've tried feeding the question to Google, and various smaller alternatives of it too, but this seems to be the only page with even tangentially relevant info. My ultimate goal is to sell...

Strategy Traffic Revenue Long Term Strategies

asked Mar 31 '12 at 21:52

Aditya Menon
112 points

I would like to get an insight into which are the most important startups at the moment. can I get a list of all crunchbase companies which received over a specific ammount in funding. I now...

API

asked Mar 31 '12 at 23:06

Ryan
147 points

I have been asked by another company to build them some software to operate some machinery. The company sells this machinery to their own customers and wants to provide the software I write along...

Payments Business Model Accounting Billing Royalties

asked Mar 25 '12 at 05:37

7wp
275 points

I'm looking into creating a website which would be based on users meeting up (nope, not another dating site!). The obvious worry here is users meeting crazy people and bad things happening. Is...

Website Privacy Security

asked Mar 25 '12 at 06:55

Mike Lentini
108 points

I am in the early stages of planning an online business which will bring together those who want X, and those who can provide X. Looking at Apple's App store model and Amazon's Publisher model,...

Payments Fees

asked Apr 1 '12 at 04:11

Ted
1 point

The Senate passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) by a vote of 73-26. The Senate added new crowdfunding protections, the House will likely accept them as-is, and the President is...

Funding Legal Jobs

asked Mar 25 '12 at 07:24

Zapoo
303 points

Are offers for interns negotiable? I'm sure this varies from company to company, but most startups don't have a formal intern program like much larger companies and probably far fewer applicants...

Job Offer Interns

asked Apr 1 '12 at 08:21

Bhan
111 points

Since I'm not a legal adult, is there anything special I need to watch out for in terms of startup culture? Technically, I can get out of any legal agreement (since they can't be binding until I'm...

Legal Independent Contractor Agreements

asked Mar 25 '12 at 10:48

Jrg
247 points

I have code of mine, developed before joining the company as a co-founder, that I used for the company product (website) but want to retain the copyright and all IP rights to it and to be able to...

Co-Founder Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 1 '12 at 12:32

Jj.
29 points

There is already an awesome question and answers on IP and spare time related to employees: If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare...

Co-Founder Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 1 '12 at 14:40

Jj.
29 points

In the process of due diligence for an investment or for M&A, I ask: Considering that all other software is property of the company, is it sufficient to have a non-core part of the software,...

Co-Founder Legal Copyright Investors Intellectual Property

asked Apr 1 '12 at 16:36

Jj.
29 points

My co-founder and I have been working on a business idea. We both invested money into getting it to a MVP stage, but it hasn't been launched and does not make any money. (It is basically a modified...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Apr 2 '12 at 01:25

Fernandose
41 points

I know there is a method to test your product idea using a landing page that describes your product, and asks for the user to enter his email if he would like to register for the beta. Then there...

Ideas Validation Landing Page

asked Apr 2 '12 at 04:55

Meir
238 points

Companies that have $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders of record are currently required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and are thus subject, among other...

Stock Options Shares SEC

asked Mar 26 '12 at 07:38

Blunders .
899 points

How can the co-founders that hold a minority of the shares be protected against: A dilution of his equity (economic and control) triggered by the shareholders that hold a majority of the...

Equity Legal Dilution

asked Apr 2 '12 at 07:27

Jj.
29 points

I am a U.S. citizen working in Canada on a work visa. A small team and I have been working on a startup in our free time up here in the great north, so we're primarily based out of Canada. However,...

Canada USA

asked Mar 26 '12 at 11:19

Marisa Bernstein
1 point

I have an LLC that is formed in NC. The LLC sells software online; the software is downloaded through the website. The website is run through GoDaddy, which is in Arizona, I think. The programmer...

Sales Tax

asked Apr 2 '12 at 11:20

User6492
1,747 points

I created a few applications. One of them is very good and users like it. However, I can not increase the number of installations to more than 50 per day. It is very small. The program is unique,...

Marketing Advertising Apps Android

asked Mar 26 '12 at 14:20

Astraport
186 points