Questions

A while ago i was surfing around the internet and i found this site: captchatrader.com. I don't understand why would someone pay for people to solve captchas. What is the reason? What do they get...

Ideas Business Model Website Business

asked May 5 '11 at 02:25

Sfrj
205 points

Specifically I'm thinking of living in UAE. They don't have a tax treaty with the USA, but if the service is an online service, owned only by me and not incorporated, am I liable for anything? (I...

Tax Online

asked Oct 26 '12 at 22:33

Tom
121 points

sorry if this is very basic question but since I haven't used any group buying website myself I don't know how do they earns money? To be more clear: Does sites like groupon charge merchants in a...

Business Model

asked Apr 24 '11 at 04:48

Ashkanr
111 points

If someone in the US holds a very broad patent on a web based process in the US, is it possible to create an offshore company to circumvent the existing patent? What are the possible repercussions...

Patent Offshore

asked Feb 15 '12 at 08:23

Darthg8r
114 points

How do we go about raising seed money for our startup that is at this point nothing much but an idea (working towards a prototype), team (2 technical persons with over 10 years experience in...

Venture Capital Seed Funding Prototype

asked Jun 6 '11 at 10:38

Xoail
365 points

I have a small fun Twitter app idea and I was wondering if there are Twitter app builders such as the ones you can find for iPhone? Similar to MobileRoadie or Appcelerator for Twitter specific for...

Outsourcing Twitter Twitter Apps

asked Apr 3 '10 at 07:03

Mosses
9 points

I am a female programmer/software developer and basically a 'techpreneur'. I just finished work on a web app to provide advertising and marketing campaigns for companies. I coded everything from...

Getting Started Partnerships

asked Feb 27 '13 at 10:23

Rasheeda
65 points

I have a business idea and would like to start up my own company (providing solutions to theme parks). I could write the software in my own time however im worried starting a business whilst still...

Getting Started Recommendations

asked Nov 22 '11 at 23:52

Tom Squires
1,047 points

Upon reading/hearing this line: "Your Group Content in One Place, Organized" would it strike a cord of interest? We are currently in the works of developing a platform to effectively capture and...

Getting Started

asked Nov 21 '13 at 19:24

Pen And Software
9 points

I'm reading a lot about DAU/MAU being a good metric for user engagement. But what is a DAU and what is a MAU? For Daily Active Users: Is a user not a Daily Active User if they missed one day in...

Metrics

asked Feb 27 '13 at 21:17

Jorisw
9 points

We received an email out of the blue a few weeks ago that noted another company is trying to register domain names in China with our same domain name. Is domain name registration in China the same...

Domain China

asked Aug 3 '11 at 12:55

Neo
24 points

Are merchant accounts necessary? Can some other bank services be used when charging clients while still being professional? I'm thinking of using wire transfers or maybe PayPal. Can PayPal or...

Payments

asked Nov 30 '11 at 12:07

Sergio Alvarez
46 points

I'm a technical person, something is puzzling me. Why do owners of business startups have to pay themselves when they're just starting a business? It doesn't seem to make sense, because it's like...

Salary Business

asked Mar 9 '12 at 14:37

Chuacw
109 points

I'm the only executive, I have 100% of the shares, I have 4 employees.I built the prototype on my own and I'm almost launching. This person has intense experience in tech but not as an investor....

Equity Investors Team

asked Mar 24 '12 at 16:26

Zapoo
303 points

My guess is as in most cases existing relationships and/or validated relevant past experiences are a great start, but wondering on a ad-hoc basis what the best way to evaluate startup co-founders...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Mar 2 '12 at 06:33

Blunders .
899 points

I want to search the SERP position of my website keywords in google.us. The problem is that when I type google.us it redirects me to google.com. So how to find the position of the keywords in...

SEO

asked Mar 31 '11 at 13:53

Integrated S
64 points

Will investors be turned off if i own 51% of the company and have an Anti-Dilution clause that keeps me at 51%? I expect I will go through several rounds of 3rd party investing in my start-up.

Investment Investors Shares

asked Oct 29 '12 at 06:02

Dragonman
120 points

If a potential customer visit to a particular website, what are the things he will check, 1) What is the page rank of the website 2) what is the competency of the company 3) How much clients...

Software Ecommerce

asked Jan 11 '12 at 22:34

Denil
1 point

I wish to start a business within the UK, which will be an online venture. However, I am unsure of a few things. Firstly, I know I will have to pay income tax, assuming it reaches the threshold of...

Getting Started UK Tax Business

asked Jul 27 '12 at 03:58

Bowersbros
11 points

The End-Of-Year is coming up soon, and -- if you were fortunate enough to profit this year and, therefore, owe taxes next year -- that means it's time to spend, spend, spend! What have you done in...

Tax

asked Nov 28 '09 at 07:18

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points