Questions

I have no experience registering a .com domain name and am looking into how to do this. I came across a site which lists “10 things you must know before you register a domain name with anyone.” The...

Web Domain

asked Sep 29 '12 at 23:42

Rinzwind
116 points

How can an employer find out if an employee has been fired or left on good terms from a previous job at a large company?

Employees

asked Jun 18 '11 at 06:18

Jirad
105 points

My company (or soon to be) is looking at becoming an S-Corp. Right now most of our funds are tied up in the company and we can't really afford to hire an attorney to do the work for us. Can we get...

Incorporation Legal S Corp

asked Jun 29 '12 at 04:58

Mike
19 points

We train people on various software through pre-recorded videos and have been contemplating offering a money back guarantee - just to reinforce that we are confident and stand behind our product....

Marketing

asked Mar 30 '11 at 23:13

Ankur Jain
566 points

Any recommendation? Is sale a process to deliver comfort which is declared in the book "E-myth revisited"?

Marketing Sales Entrepreneurs Business Selling

asked Dec 19 '10 at 16:11

Steven
1 point

I have a free iOS app with about 2000 daily active users. I just submitted an app update that includes Apple's iAds. Now I'm curious about how much revenue I can generate with this user count. I...

Advertising Revenue Mobile Customer Retention Apple

asked Jun 29 '12 at 13:16

Sunday Monday
167 points

I have been asked by many startups to help them with their core machine learning IP Unlike outsourced software development, machine learning is difficult to outsource or even to specify because it...

Contract Consulting Intellectual Property Legal Documents

asked Oct 12 '12 at 01:04

Charles Martin
26 points

I would - Stop over-thinking about ideas, pick the best one and execute it.. I have lot more to add but this is the top most I think - What is your top most thing you would change about yourself?

Learning

asked Nov 14 '10 at 04:22

Birender Saini
271 points

I have a unique idea about a web-service. How do I protect against duplicating my idea before launching? I'm afraid I'd end up rivaling against massive number of competitors like Groupon does...

Ideas Legal Patent Copyright

asked Oct 11 '11 at 11:34

Moe Sweet
141 points

In the US, medical insurance is tied to the employer in the vast majority of cases. Paying for an employee health plan is beyond the means of many startups. Founders are often willing to take the...

Hiring Health Insurance Benefits

asked Jan 23 '10 at 02:31

Mark Beadles
502 points

I have a great idea for a company name, but it requires the semicolon character ; in order to work. Do you think it would be possible to have a semicolon in the company name? I know...

Company Branding Trademark Name

asked Mar 16 '12 at 01:07

Eero Heikkinen
118 points

I'm finally at the stage where it's time to stop coding for 12 hours a day and it's time to raise capital - I've been approached by an angel investor who asked for a 6 month budget. The project...

Angel Business Plan Budget

asked Oct 17 '10 at 06:07

Sherif Buzz
462 points

I recently caught up with a former colleague, a mid-level software developer. For the last year, he has been at a failing (badly), self-funded, single-owner software startup. According to him, the...

Management Finance Employees NDA

asked Apr 11 '11 at 00:49

Mqv
52 points

Here's the situation at hand. I'm a designer, entrepreneur. I work with a lot of talented developers etc. One of my non-technical buddies had an idea for an iOS app. He explained it to be through...

Equity

asked Mar 12 '13 at 11:37

Tyler
16 points

I recently launched a small MVP. It's a web app which is supposed to make file uploading easier, without the need to register, use complicated UIs or have porn popups be thrown at you ( ;)...

Lean Web App MVP

asked Oct 31 '11 at 19:50

Itai Sagi
337 points

I'm considering how to structure my product tour and was wondering what the best approach would be with regards to the page flow. Currently, I have split the entire tour into 7 subpages. -----...

Conversion

asked Jul 13 '11 at 20:32

Ddillert
16 points

Blue Ocean Strategy is a business methodology that says: instead of competing in a market with existing competitors (red oceans), why not create your own market (blue ocean) and dominate it? Here...

Strategy Business

asked May 13 '10 at 03:44

Mark Bao
604 points

I run a website that conducts short story writing competitions for 10 months (each month different genre), and publish an anthology at the end of the year containing all the winning stories. It's...

Customer Feedback Customer Service

asked Oct 15 '12 at 16:52

User21143
16 points

There is a chance we will be entering our first round of VC meetings soon, and I am mildly addicted to the show Shark Tank and its predecessor Dragon's Den (UK). There is a similar thread on this...

Fundraising

asked Nov 8 '11 at 11:03

Laramie
192 points

Is it a good idea to use WordPress as the base for a startup app? Would a VC invest in an app if it was built on WordPress, regardless of the idea? The app, for example, is a photosharing site...

Ideas Apps Wordpress

asked Feb 17 '11 at 15:19

Sirwan Qutbi
14 points