Questions

My product will be produced by a 3rd party manufacturer, and I am not overly keen to rent my own warehouse/hire a staff for order fulfillment (at least until we begin to scale). We will be selling...

Outsourcing

asked Dec 4 '09 at 05:02

Ryan
40 points

How much time and money does an early stage merger take? I have an unfunded startup. I am talking to a company that has completed their Round A. It seems like they might want to acquire / merge...

Legal Acquisition Selling Business

asked Mar 6 '10 at 10:59

John
96 points

If I have access to a big hall/room in a building I own and I wanted to convert it into a personal gym. Then one day I say to a friend, you can use my gym if you give me $100 a year, and I will...

Payments Legal Tax

asked Mar 17 '11 at 04:23

Oshirowanen
201 points

I have been developing database-driven software since 1996. During the last year I decided to "sell" this software. I've a lot of source code for a lot of ... customer needs. Starting from help...

Marketing Software Advertising

asked May 7 '11 at 07:33

Stighy
111 points

Myself and two other partners are planning to start a C-Corporation. One of the partners is on H1B visa sponsored by his employer and he is getting a W2 from them. We have few questions: Can a...

Visa Legal

asked Jun 9 '11 at 05:29

Gagan
11 points

Right now I'm in the process of bootstrapping a start-up, so I and my co-founder are working pretty long hours. My only source of new information seems to be Hacker News at the moment, but...

Ideas Data Budget

asked Jul 30 '11 at 18:54

Philip K
113 points

Can word of mouth be a good customer acquisition strategy for a smartphone app?

Acquisition

asked Dec 15 '11 at 13:09

Ina
121 points

I'm building an e-commerce website. On this website one can pay a membership to get a profile where he/she can show his/her portfolio. The website visitors can leave reviews on profiles. My main...

Ecommerce

asked Nov 27 '12 at 03:18

Jules
11 points

I would like to find a student to do some design work for my website. Is it OK to just give him recommendation letter but not pay?

Payments

asked Feb 1 '13 at 02:05

Marco
130 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

I am based in the US, but I would like to start an ISP in a different country. Would it be reasonable to find investors in the US? Or do I have to find investors in the target country?

International Investors

asked Apr 29 '12 at 14:18

Ayub
133 points

I'm trying to push my friend's software to Wikipedia, to do this I need real software reviews, but that seems impossible to get it, I've written emails (with our software free licenses for them, we...

Marketing Software Review

asked Dec 5 '12 at 05:13

Bartosz Wójcik
111 points

My company recently completed development of a new highly innovative commercial green-technology product. The product has two versions - for commercial and residential use. I need help of an...

Advertising Angel

asked Jun 3 '11 at 07:34

Dom
16 points

I'm about to move to Toronto, ON, Canada, within months. I want to go ahead and start my business up now though, before I go there. Would there be any problem with this, and would I be able to...

LLC International

asked Apr 19 '12 at 23:07

Christopher Gunn
11 points

How should a small startup organize their hiring pipeline? We're a team of 8 so don't have a dedicated HR person. Way too early for that. So we keep an excel file to manage candidates we interview....

Recruiting Hiring Organization

asked Jun 11 '14 at 14:56

Michael Brown
14 points

I've just entered the vator.tv splash competition and was wondering what other people have run into as far as problems. I assume: overzealous preoccupation with winning could hurt a team, but that...

Contests

asked Dec 15 '09 at 05:14

Jazzmann91
13 points

Which do you think is better to begin a relationship with a vendor/contractor or partner/co-founder? What are some of the advantages or disadvantages of choosing one over the other? Thanks

Legal

asked Feb 5 '10 at 11:37

Newyuppie
441 points

I have two potential investors: 1) My uncle - a trusted and wealthy family member and 2) "M.S." an unknown person that approached me after having heard my pitch and was "instantly enamored with my...

Investment Investors Scams

asked Dec 16 '10 at 14:47

John Berryman
388 points

I'm planning to have one good server computer (Intel Xeon processor) running some linux server distro handling all the files for my file hosting website. I can buy it plenty of space (I assume I...

Data Request UK Internet

asked Apr 13 '11 at 17:44

User9331
113 points

Business owner, how does he/she get paid? Withdrawals vs Salary (Guaranteed payments) I've been thinking of registering a Ltd company (UK) as I'm a freelancer; and want limited liability. Also to...

Payments Tax Business Ltd

asked Jan 8 '12 at 05:58

Klj613
36 points