Questions

My co-founders and I just began searching for $1.5-2M of funding. We met with someone who has many contacts and friends who are angels or VCs. After meeting with us, he surprised us by offering...

Advisors Funding

asked Jul 6 '11 at 01:58

A Fake Username
86 points

I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide...

Launch Payments Saas Beta Freemium

asked Jul 5 '11 at 23:12

Lee
8 points

I'm building compilers, decompilers, assemblers, processor emulators, drivers etc. for learning purposes. Thinking to convert these immature but useful product line into a startup. Traditional...

Software Market Opportunity

asked Jul 5 '11 at 15:08

Jeff
58 points

Well, i am a 2nd year computer science student, and really passionate about entrepreneurship. Now, i have these couple of ideas, that i would really like to implement, but the problem is that, all...

Website

asked Jul 5 '11 at 15:06

Kraken
133 points

What are the pitfalls and advantages to outsourcing the development of a start up's product. I am not a programmer, my background is in business. I am more inclined to outsource as I am not located...

Development Outsourcing

asked Jul 5 '11 at 13:05

Eric Littleton
107 points

In the development stage of launching a start up. I am initially outsourcing the development as I am not located in a place where there is an abundance of programmers. The dev timeline is 6 weeks....

Equity Employees Salary Team

asked Jul 5 '11 at 12:41

Eric Littleton
107 points

From around March 2009 to October 2009, my sister and I built a website and dubbed it our "first startup": Jumpino.com. Truthfully, it was hardly a startup: we had no capital, no way of monetizing,...

Ideas Google Intellectual Property

asked Jul 5 '11 at 05:46

David Titarenco
405 points

I am a photographer and new to the whole sale tax forms. If I have a sale for $500 to photograph an event, but $100 dollars of that was used to buy prints --- do I list that $100.00 as a deduction...

Tax

asked Jul 5 '11 at 04:41

Beverly
11 points

Given the following assumptions: Assume total investment (founders + seed) to a SaaS company is 100K After one year, the monthly net profit is 5K, and it is growing at around 10% monthly. What...

Equity Saas Investors Valuation

asked Jul 5 '11 at 02:20

Jack
26 points

Several newbie questions for restricted stocks... Is it common for seed fund to invest in restricted stock? Is it common to issue restricted stock to cofounder? Is it common to turn option to...

Equity Angel Seed Funding Stock Options

asked Jul 5 '11 at 01:47

Yoga
116 points

I'm a German citizen, but have been living in various EU and non-EU countries. I usually do remote freelance work. Since I don't live in Germany, I don't see the point why I should pay the high...

Tax Travel Offshore

asked Jul 4 '11 at 19:21

Znq
164 points

So i'm the founder and developer of a startup, when i add a guy to the company to serve as a sales man, and give him 10% of equity of the company without any salary. Does it mean he'll receive 10%...

Equity

asked Jul 4 '11 at 10:12

Ryan
139 points

I'm looking for advice on writing a business plan for a VC or Angel investor in the technology field. What are they looking for in a business plan/pitch? There are some good basic guides on...

Venture Capital Pitch Business Plan

asked Jul 4 '11 at 08:37

Hisnameisjimmy
126 points

I'm starting up a lawn mowing service, and I want to know if there is any free software, where I can track sales, customers, expenses ect. It doesn't need to be feature-crazy as my business will...

Software Management Accounting

asked Jul 4 '11 at 07:05

Ratz
118 points

I would like to bring an existing boardgame onto the iPad. The owner of the boardgame and the idea behind the game is positive for negotiations and asked me to find out what a fair market / revenue...

Revenue

asked Jul 4 '11 at 01:22

Marcus K
48 points

I am looking for reports/articles/research on how SMEs and big companies differ in their approach for finding and buying IT solutions. I would expect that ROI and the cost of the ownership play...

Enterprise Research Business Plan Selling

asked Jul 3 '11 at 21:50

Skarab
106 points

I discovered that I have some borrowing capacity at low rates based on an investment account that I have, and so I'd like to draw down that money and loan money to start-ups and other companies...

Investors Loan

asked Jul 3 '11 at 21:46

User6492
1,747 points

Is my own made website automatically copyrighted or do I have to register it some where? For example if someone copies my content how can I claim it it was myself? How can I open a case ?

Copyright

asked Jul 3 '11 at 09:04

Monster Mmorpg
121 points

i'm a newbie in the business world, and i'd like to submit a couple of questions to you. First, i live in Italy. Suppose i want to fire up a website, and part of its services are under payment....

Legal Tax

asked Jul 3 '11 at 08:25

Michele
11 points

I just wondering, whether anyone agree if I say that software (beta/prototype version) download number as an achievement for a software product, especially in startup stage. I know it is not a...

Marketing Funding Software

asked Jul 3 '11 at 03:44

Jazar
123 points