Questions

This is not really a question but a muse about what I'm thinking of a better way to monetize mobile traffic via house ads. Yes, I seek your opinions. If I were to have a "worldwide" popular app at...

Business Model Monetization Ads Mobile Payments Mobile Apps

asked Feb 23 '12 at 20:36

Killua
68 points

Is there a best practice roadmap based on proof of concepts methods when you release a webapplication / startup as a 1-man "company" ? There are several options I have been looking at for getting...

Marketing Entrepreneurs Product Release Micro Startup

asked Feb 24 '12 at 00:05

Rubytastic
139 points

If an employee wanted to clean our buildings above their normal responsibilities, could we hire them as an independent contractor for the cleaning work in addition to them being an employee? Is...

Employees Human Resources

asked Feb 24 '12 at 01:19

Matthew Rankin
196 points

I have heard some people use the term, for example in this video but I cannot find a precise definition of the concept online. What is soft ROI?

ROI Definitions

asked Feb 24 '12 at 06:22

Randomblue
154 points

I own a domain which is my first and last name dot com and I was wondering if it is better to have [my first name]@[my domain] or me@[my domain]? Which is more professional? Does having [my first...

Email

asked Feb 24 '12 at 06:41

Newguy
13 points

Possible Duplicate: I made a product, now how can I find customers? I built a prototype for a desktop music app that will keep you updated with music. It has real-time music aggregation, and a...

Marketing Ideas Music Prototype

asked Feb 24 '12 at 08:48

Meir
238 points

I need to prepare a financial/cashflow/budget plan for my startup. Can anyone offer suggestions about what items I should include or exclude? Are there any 'templates' available for preparing this...

Finance Planning Budget

asked Feb 24 '12 at 18:32

Ben Cornwell
16 points

We provide a customisable SaaS solution, and have adopted the classic billing model of a monthly user subscription fee. However some of our clients also require us to make customisations to their...

Pricing Strategy Saas Billing

asked Feb 24 '12 at 18:38

Kosta Kontos
216 points

My start-up is made up mostly of home-based workers so having a physical office wasn't really a priority for us. In fact, it's one of the things that made us really competitive in our market (low...

Office Setup

asked Feb 24 '12 at 19:06

March Robert Philip Serrano
152 points

I have bootstrapped a startup in NY and am ready to hire a person. Should I hire this person as a contractor or as an employee. I realize that there are many laws and logistics around hiring an...

Hiring Employees Independent Contractor

asked Feb 25 '12 at 08:06

User15995
42 points

I formed a Delaware LLC on November last year, and soon I found that the c-corp is more suitable for my situation, so I decided to dissolve this LLC, it has been dissolved on December last year...

LLC Tax IRS Delaware

asked Feb 25 '12 at 09:12

Silent
111 points

We were registered as a partner business and we started to work together about 2 months then my partner quit without asking to split the share, she just said "sorry, thing went wrong in my family....

Legal

asked Feb 25 '12 at 09:48

Alan Sugar
6 points

The name Microsoft logically consists of two words - micro and soft. On .cn zone sites I often see it written as MicroSoft, and it just looks terrible. I am starting a mobile platform...

Branding Name

asked Feb 25 '12 at 10:08

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

Would it be more wise to add paid options to a startup later on or from the start? The paiad options would of course take extra time to develop since they would be an enhancment on the...

Marketing Memberships Income

asked Feb 26 '12 at 01:26

Rubytastic
139 points

What is the thought sequence, particuarlly in a new venture that you're thinking about or have already started? Do cool things just randomly pop in your head after whatever things you do through...

Strategy Market Research

asked Feb 26 '12 at 04:25

Steven
41 points

I recently created an Android App. It translates thousands of frequently used words from each language. When I started learning Dutch with a friend of mine, he suggested it would be great to have...

Market Apps Promotion Android

asked Feb 26 '12 at 07:55

Balkrishna Rawool
16 points

I understand that profit/loss is distributed among the LLC owners according to their ownership stakes. What about if profit/loss if the ownership stakes change? Say for example, there are 3...

LLC Tax

asked Feb 26 '12 at 15:49

Timecapsule
6 points

I'm a co-founder of a startup, and I've been working on it for almost 3 years. The vesting term is 1-year cliff and 1/48 per month. So now I have vested 15%, and 5% not yet vested. I need to quit...

Equity Vesting

asked Feb 27 '12 at 01:53

Samie
18 points

I want to keep track of my startup's income and expenses. Is excel the right software? And how should I do it, a column for income and a column for expenses? Is there some template you can recommend?

Business

asked Feb 27 '12 at 08:14

Startup1
90 points

Can I apply for a DARPA grant, being a foreign citizen who has founded a company in the US? The company would be located in the US and there would be other founders with US citizenship.

Foreign Founders Grants

asked Feb 27 '12 at 09:48

Reachus
101 points