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Appears the largest difference difference a "new business" and a "startup" is the entities relationship to markets, the research of them, and as a result, the engagement of a market via some...

Market Research

asked Mar 28 '12 at 02:20

Blunders .
899 points

I will be joining as a senior developer on a startup and I will be working 20 hours a week remotely. I have a day job which pays my bills now. The company is not funded yet so we will not be given...

Independent Contractor Stock Options Convertible Note

asked Apr 5 '12 at 01:59

Java Mouse
113 points

Our startup is at a very early stage, and we do not want any institutional funding at this moment, for reasons out of the scope of this question. We are instead looking for funding from friends and...

Funding Commission

asked Apr 5 '12 at 03:36

Royal1122
252 points

I want to start a business fixing iphones/ipods. There is this site that I have been looking at that seems like the cheapest place to buy parts, but I would be buying them wholesale from China....

Getting Started Iphone

asked Apr 5 '12 at 11:42

Ironcyclone
1 point

I have been bootstrapping for 1.5 years, coding part-time while keeping my full time job. I have also invested some 10k into my project. Now, the workload seems to pile up over time, and I know I...

Co-Founder Legal Partnership

asked Apr 5 '12 at 12:33

Victor
593 points

i currently own a domain name in the name of an LLC. ideally, we'd like to license subdomains (e.g., productA.example.com, productB.example.com) to developers to develop applications that generally...

LLC Licensing

asked Mar 28 '12 at 04:51

Aosik
103 points

A couple people at my place of work (small-medium company with < 100 employees) are starting up a lottery pool, and it got me wondering about what would happen if they won. So my question is...

Employees

asked Mar 28 '12 at 04:59

Chris Bye
109 points

I'm currently working on a simple image uploading app that lets you upload images to services like Flickr and Facebook. Do I need a terms of service or some other kind of disclaimer for an app like...

Legal Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Apr 5 '12 at 23:15

James
6 points

My friend and I are about to launch our website in 6 weeks. We do not have a company registered yet. We are working on full time jobs and plan to set up a company once our website launches and...

Getting Started Marketing Technology Conferences

asked Mar 14 '12 at 02:21

Raj
24 points

Checked, but didn't see an answer to this: My partners and I have applied to a NYC accelerator. They have invited us to do an in person interview to determine if our project is a good fit. Aside...

Venture Capital Incubators Investors

asked Mar 21 '12 at 05:24

Confused
11 points

I recently met with a local start-up and was presented an offer. I spent the last few days reading on this board looking for insight into the start-up financing world. The start-up is technology...

Equity Job Offer

asked Mar 14 '12 at 03:08

Patrick
11 points

I am going to start up a website in the near future and I am aiming to receive at least 10,000 unique page views daily (hopefully up to 100,000 daily). From what I have researched, a CTR of 10% is...

Adwords Advertising Website Money

asked Mar 21 '12 at 09:55

Jeff
1 point

I am thinking about starting a small charity to help find and support the "untapped Genius" in everyday people or people that might otherwise just end up in a dead end job or unemployed. The...

Business Model Tax Accounting Tax Structure

asked Mar 21 '12 at 11:15

Amin Brodie
39 points

As a start up that has already a development team and a product in beta status we are looking for a co-founder that could bring the start up to the next level. I found some resources about how to...

Co-Founder Business Development

asked Mar 14 '12 at 08:44

Felix Albrecht
11 points

It seems silly to me that I would have to notify myself about the annual meeting, but is this required to stay legal? Edit: I incorporated in Delaware.

Incorporation

asked Mar 14 '12 at 12:05

Patrick Kenny
277 points

If you're based in U.S., it is not very hard to get in touch with the right people in order to transform an idea into a product. It's easy to get to conferences, to apply to different startup...

Getting Started Silicon Valley

asked Mar 21 '12 at 21:21

Claudiu Constantin
106 points

the funders for my projects plan to put up a holding corporation. this holding corporation is intended to fund feasible projects by various project proponents not only those projects by me but...

Co-Founder Incorporation Equity Legal

asked Mar 14 '12 at 13:48

Lovelyvixen
1 point

We are building up a new Digital Agency and we are creating our company web site. Because we have just started we don't have any clients in "Our-Portfolio" section nor relevant works that we have...

Getting Started Website

asked Mar 21 '12 at 21:56

Massimiliano Peluso
172 points

As the owner of a business with a Facebook "place" page I wanted to know if I could sell status/post updates to my fans to various suppliers of goods and services in the area? Having started a...

Marketing Facebook

asked Mar 21 '12 at 23:27

Jamie
6 points

Two of my childhood friends have started microbrewing and have a small following in their town. They were asking me if I wanted to join in since I have startup experience. I am putting together an...

Legal Business

asked Mar 22 '12 at 00:07

Jeremy Boyd
110 points