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I'm looking to start a website to supplement my day gig. I have the ideas, funds, and skills to do pretty much everything by myself, except for the front-end design. I plan to own the site under my...

LLC Legal Website Partnerships

asked Mar 22 '11 at 07:20

User8810
13 points

I had a problem that required a database solution. I designed the concept of the database and over a 2 year period developed a crude system that worked. In trying to find help with the...

Equity Investment Shares

asked Apr 17 '11 at 11:43

Paul
11 points

I believe to have a successful product / service, you need to fill a need that clients and customers have. My question is how do you find, spot, identify or realize a need is there?

Ideas Customer Value

asked Jul 18 '11 at 16:31

Seti Seeker
236 points

I am happily employed as a software developer currently and have no plans to leave. An amazing opportunity presented itself to my dad that just screamed of a lucrative niche market with only a...

Contract Family

asked Nov 12 '11 at 06:32

Maple Shaft
323 points

Just got quoted 3k from our legal team to file for a trademark. They cited their search report was much more thorough than what we could do on our own. Anybody filed successful trademarks on their...

Legal Trademark

asked Jan 14 '12 at 08:47

Eric Littleton
107 points

I've just launched a startup, and as it will take awhile for SEO to work i'll use adwords to get new customers. I've been doing this for the last couple of weeks, and find that my money goes very...

Adwords

asked Jul 20 '12 at 15:20

User1402196
13 points

I want to start my own brand of energy drinks and related products. Would you say the market is far too saturated for any new player?What are some ways I could differentiate my product in the sea...

Competition Market Opportunity Differentiation

asked Apr 10 '14 at 23:57

Donald Kennamer
12 points

Does the company you're currently work for owns the IP rights if you are creating a product after work hours? Is there anything that can defend me if the company at one point claims that they own...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Dec 4 '09 at 21:00

Jpartogi
1,342 points

Facebook started at Harvard and then spread to a very few other colleges early on. Eventually anyone with a university address could get an account, but they always kept an air of...

Launch

asked Mar 7 '11 at 10:11

Matt
141 points

I plan on creating a site that allows the clients to (without signing up) "swap" a certain amount of BitCoins. In short though, it is just an online currency. Basically, the client would send in x...

Risk Legal

asked May 28 '11 at 03:43

Xan
118 points

As a stock holder, do I have the right to know how many stocks other investors have? The company is not publicly traded yet, but I am having difficulty trusting that I have received my fair "share"...

Equity Legal

asked Mar 13 '12 at 17:28

User16901
11 points

I have been working on an education services startup for about 1 Year. At this stage the whole product must be completed, but I still have ~30% remaining. Following is my case: We are a group of...

Motivation Business Failure

asked Jul 20 '12 at 16:56

Darshan Joshi
154 points

What are the Tax implications for US company hiring offshore software consultants? How different is it from hiring a consultant from US in tax filings? Are taxes higher for a US Company to hire an...

Consulting Tax Offshore

asked Sep 13 '12 at 10:14

All Spark
11 points

I came across an article about a company (Buffer) that made salaries of all employees public in order to be more transparent. What are the benefits of doing that?

Hiring Salary

asked Feb 17 '14 at 11:13

Marlon Wheeler
11 points

We're building a recruiting and employee management platform (similar to Yammer).The product records and analyzes metrics for each different type of employee so that we can offer employers of large...

Employees Metrics Saas Product Management

asked Apr 11 '14 at 10:41

Ariel Jacobs
11 points

I have a bunch of ideas and before the fire department comes to doubt the potential fire from this statement I realize I have to narrow the bunch down to one and take it past an idea. Ideas aren't...

Co-Founder

asked Oct 27 '09 at 16:15

Jaret Manuel
76 points

How? Is there a smart or efficient way?

Mentor Funding Angel

asked Jan 12 '10 at 22:32

Steven
1 point

We are looking at somone to handle online payments for us and we came across cleverbridge. They seem like a pretty full featured solution, however they dont list pricing on their website. Can...

Payments

asked Mar 13 '11 at 06:26

Pdeva
111 points

I have an idea for productivity software that would be very beneficial to my current company (and to me in my current role). My current role involves no software development at all (I'm working for...

Sales Software Licensing

asked Apr 27 '11 at 00:22

Jetti
289 points

I was discussing doing some work for shares in a startup when the owner mentioned something interesting. Basically I would be given X shares for my work and with the current number of stock that...

Equity Stock Options Stocks

asked Sep 6 '11 at 00:13

Abe Miessler
264 points