Questions

I'm working on getting a SaaS start-up off the ground. Right now I'm focusing on building a "launch-able" prototype to help me in conversations with potential partners and investors. Some of the...

Legal Provisional Patent

asked May 24 '10 at 06:45

Ellery
96 points

How does your train of thoughts look like while coming up with a brand/business name?

Enterprise Branding Naming

asked Jun 2 '10 at 23:58

Elisha
64 points

I have no web-building background but I genuinely believe in an online business. I wish to build an online directory and I have little budget as of now. So should I: Go get educated Rope in an...

Development Website Internet

asked Jun 3 '10 at 01:38

Elisha
64 points

I thought one of the benefits of starting an online business is not having to purchase liability insurance. It turns out I was wrong. Is there a standard list that shows the type of insurance...

Insurance

asked Jun 3 '10 at 13:14

Yasmine
206 points

Using an external service for delivering your emails can take a lot of load off your shoulders if deliverability is a must. Services like Sendgrid and Postmark have pre-configured, whitelisted...

Development Recommendations Email Deliverability Web App

asked May 16 '10 at 05:47

Mark Bao
604 points

Let's hear your most effective SEM tip.

Marketing Advertising

asked May 16 '10 at 07:35

Mark Bao
604 points

I am trying to find a retired executive who has industry expertise and who can help me grow the company and invest in it. Where do I begin to find people like this? I don't find they are make...

Entrepreneurs Angel Investors

asked Jun 4 '10 at 03:39

Stacey
484 points

I'm battling with this issue for a while. I host my domain at DiscountAsp and although I'm very happy with the hosting, their email web application has some limitations. Basically what I need is...

Google Email

asked Jun 4 '10 at 03:49

Stefanos Tses
981 points

I am starting a new project for my web-based company and I think the services of an interaction design company would really help me flesh out a beautiful / usable product for my customers. Can...

Design

asked May 25 '10 at 13:35

Simon
165 points

I'm interested in hearing from programmers & computer scientists who have started their own company. What is the general nature of your business and how did you play a part in starting it? Any...

Program

asked Jun 4 '10 at 09:26

Paul
138 points

For a company that has just started, when should we show prices to customer? Right when the application is live on day one or when the application is stable enough to be used by real customer?...

Pricing Bootstrapped

asked May 25 '10 at 19:37

Jpartogi
1,342 points

We are about to launch a website offering products. My "gut" feeling is that a good proportion of our customers will be based in the US. We are currently based in the UK, though that is likely to...

Pricing Payments Saas Accounting

asked May 16 '10 at 17:40

Morpheous
236 points

Our company is currently thinking about hiring an independent contractor to expand our software product. I was wondering what the costs (insurance etc...) and tax implications of this might be if...

Software Independent Contractor

asked May 25 '10 at 23:44

Nbeecroft
515 points

There are a good amount of services that help you incorporate your startup for S Corp, C Corp or LLC, like Incorporate.com and Agents & Corporations. They help you put together the documents...

Incorporation Legal

asked May 17 '10 at 01:43

Mark Bao
604 points

I am looking for an online service where it utilizes crowd sourcing or humans for keyword suggestions. Meaning if I want to create a CPC ad for some product or service, I want to get ideas from...

Adwords Crowdsourcing

asked May 17 '10 at 08:28

Tony Henrich
85 points

We offer our resellers (ones that actively go out and sell to customers) a 25% discount on software licenses. We have just introduced an annual maintenance fee, at 20% of current list price at the...

Sales Software Subscriptions

asked Jun 4 '10 at 18:01

Cocowalla
327 points

And what is your opinion on bulk email marketing and would you ever use it for promoting/selling your business service?

Marketing Business Crowdsourcing

asked Jun 4 '10 at 19:48

Tatiana Andrushko
16 points

In the development of our application, we've relied heavily on a handful of beta testers. Their input has been very, very valuable and has no doubt made our application much, much better than it...

Beta Compensation

asked May 26 '10 at 05:44

Ryan
71 points

Is there a checklist or some stats that anyone has used that gives a comfort level to getting to a minimum valid product? I'm a lone startup ISV and find that I need to take extra effort to...

Marketing Software Focus Products

asked Jun 5 '10 at 00:42

John Bogrand
2,210 points

I am part of a startup that offers accommodations across the world. We are hoping to hire a PR firm that has experience with startups (and knows digital marketing clearly). Does anybody have...

Inbound Marketing

asked Jun 5 '10 at 00:46

Jim Shook
417 points