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Was just curious about this. With Intellectual Property, if there is no contract and you are a contractor, all the work you create is owned by the creator by default. How does liability work...

Legal Legal Documents Liability

asked Dec 8 '11 at 09:51

Roger
52 points

The CEO of a LLC early startup plans to assign non-dilutable equity to the founders. Each founder will take a small amount of equity, leaving a pool for future employees and investors. IMHO, what...

Co-Founder LLC Equity Dilution

asked Feb 11 '12 at 02:38

Anon User
62 points

I have recently started reading the blog and I feel it has been really helpful and helped me anticipate problems that I would not have foreseen otherwise. My question is related to the decision of...

Getting Started Strategy

asked Jan 31 '13 at 00:52

Trana
24 points

I would like to start a hotel over the next few years. I know I will need a lot of capital to do so. I am working on getting the capital right now but I would like to know what a realistic amount...

Startup Costs Investment Loan Cost Estimation Franchise

asked Mar 31 '13 at 06:06

Makai
11 points

I have started a comparison website for electronic consumer goods vendors, the website is ready, but I am having a problem getting in touch with someone whom I can speak to . I've tried asking for...

Marketing Website

asked Jul 11 '13 at 18:55

Stanford Sequeira
42 points

So today I did soft launch of my SaaS tool. I sent out about 150 emails to my mailing list. Roughly 45% of people opened it. 20% of users clicked it and landed on my site.I found that I had only 20...

User Experience User Acquisition

asked Sep 18 '14 at 00:54

user7823742
21 points

I'm looking for a low-impact way to implement an affiliate program for a web app. Looking for a reasonably priced turnkey solution that doesn't require a lot implementation. Are there simple to...

Affiliate Program

asked Dec 3 '09 at 16:45

Justyn
892 points

Is there a comprehensive business database out there that takes variables for sorting? For example, if I wanted to say something like, "Show me all businesses with more than 50 employees within a...

Database

asked Jan 13 '11 at 04:32

Rob
128 points

Is traffic, retainability, volume, constantly growing registration and users base enough to be able to attract VC or angel investment? I am talking about an already launched free web application,...

Investment

asked Apr 30 '11 at 06:17

Ron M.
4,224 points

I am a US citizen living as a permanent resident in Australia (married to an Aussie). I need to incorporate and have been advised to get an 'off the shelf' Delaware Corp. We are considering moving...

Incorporation

asked Apr 11 '12 at 21:30

User17432
11 points

I am starting a new business in California and can't decide whether it should be an LLC or S Corp or an LLC as a S Corp. It would be a single person LLC or S Corp (no other shareholders or...

LLC Tax Business California Corporation

asked Jun 2 '12 at 07:21

Lynne
11 points

i have built a easy to use visual a/b testing tool for websites and i am planning to offer it for free since i dont have the resources to market it. So my question is even if i offer it for free is...

Saas

asked Nov 5 '13 at 21:05

Max
13 points

We are a new development consulting shop and figuring out how to get new clients. There is a lot of blog posts and talk about contributing to open source and it attracts potential clients.Has...

Consulting Open Source Sourcing Clients

asked Jun 1 '14 at 15:25

Bette Miller
14 points

Last Saturday my site received an unusually high volume of brute force attacks. Yep, those darn teens from Western Europe or smart scripts from academic towns in Siberia, trying tirelessly to break...

Recommendations Website Security

asked Oct 13 '10 at 00:32

Usabilitest
1,698 points

My roommate and I are partners and only employees in a startup focused on a single web application (for now). We discussed VC, but based on the costs we thought of it seemed unnecessary. Here are...

Startup Costs Venture Capital Cost

asked Jan 20 '12 at 12:14

Mirov
384 points

I am building a website that solves word games (scrabble, wordfeud, angry words etc.). It does it better than any websites I have seen. I am thinking about how to make money on it (I have three...

Adwords Monetization Website Inspiration Web App

asked Jun 2 '12 at 08:06

Muleskinner
18 points

What non-disclosure agreement do you use? Did you get it online? Would you be willing to share it for the world to use?

NDA

asked Jan 1 '11 at 01:02

Webnet
113 points

I am looking to finally start an online food ordering service and was wondering what the legalities of the setup were. I would have an online ordering system for fast food shops. So customers can...

Legal

asked Jan 13 '11 at 05:38

Ddd
116 points

I've just found out that I will be presenting my startup, mokabla at an Entrepreneur event in ATL in less than a week. There will be about 200 people attending. Since this event doesn't have...

Marketing Contests Swag Promotion

asked Feb 18 '11 at 14:39

Shaymus
176 points

We want to hire some freelancers in the US, Germany, Russia and Japan. The book "The Business of iPhone App Development" from Apress references an Imdependent Contractor Agreement template. The...

Legal Independent Contractor Intellectual Property Contractor

asked Oct 2 '11 at 20:03

Openfrog
111 points