Questions

I will be speaking with a potential investor soon. And I will be quitting my job to run this startup. I will also be the only one running the startup for at least the first 6 months. How do I...

Funding Salary Investors

asked Sep 28 '11 at 05:12

G Amboo Ka
108 points

I'm looking to improve conversion rates for my service by improving the tightening the messaging and copy. To achieve that, I want to improve the market segmentation as it'll ease the process of...

Marketing Market Research Copywriting

asked Jan 9 '12 at 01:36

Cpinto
6 points

I've pre-launched my start-up two days ago. After being featured on a few sites, we now have a good influx of subscribers. Now I know an inevitable slow down subscribers will happen if I don't act...

Marketing Development Leads

asked Feb 8 '12 at 09:39

User744319
94 points

Amazon payments has a strict list of requirements including having a US EIN or SSN, a state driver's license and US residency. Google Checkout is not yet available in Canada. What are the steps...

Payments Legal Delaware Payment Gateway

asked May 27 '12 at 17:47

Calydon
26 points

In the UK, is it possible to be in full time employment and be a sole trader at the same time? i.e. Work a full time job as an employee. Do contract work as a sole trader on evenings and...

Employees Company Contractor

asked May 20 '13 at 21:29

Flem
108 points

Looking at the web environment, it is quite good for a bootstrapped startup. Reasons are: Low barrier to entry Low startup / teardown costs Can start or be built with a single person Highly...

Bootstrapped Market Opportunity

asked Oct 27 '10 at 08:33

Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

We are working on a collaboration platform for artists. I managed to put most of the first alpha together myself with wordpress and some other open source elements and additional code, but I'm not...

Development CMS

asked Sep 23 '11 at 01:32

Mihaly Borbely
715 points

I am developing an online utility application. My partners and I have struggled to come up with a profitable business model. We were thinking that we could sell server space to allow people to put...

Freemium

asked Oct 16 '11 at 02:09

Matt
20 points

My company in Hong Kong is selling handphone accessories. We also have an online store. Because we have increasing customers in US, we are thinking to incorporate a company in US. This is to...

Incorporation Foreign Tax Resellers Distribution

asked Dec 16 '11 at 14:12

Paul12
18 points

I'm NOT seeking investment (legally stated for now), but I've pitched my business/goals to a few angels just for practice. The business is in data processing and is very procedural. As such, the...

Venture Capital

asked Mar 28 '12 at 09:06

Xepoch
234 points

Is it possible to have a Section 83(b) Election when the only risk of forfeiture of the restricted stock is for unvested shares and there are no repurchase rights for vested shares (ie all vested...

Legal Tax Shares Vesting

asked Apr 13 '12 at 13:54

Jj.
29 points

I've seen a few job offers where in addition to the salary the company offers X,000 Restricted Stock Units (RSU). I'm still trying to understand owning equity as one of the early employees for a...

Equity Compensation Stock Options

asked Dec 6 '12 at 05:39

Wwwuser
125 points

I have a high quality content site that was consistently growing the last three months. The backlinks are from authority sites.Just a few days after I changed my whois registration to private, my...

Google SEO Search Engines Search Ranking Domain Names

asked Jun 23 '14 at 12:28

Albert Vaughan
7 points

I'm new on Tumblr, and I have over 180 followers. With all these eyes on my blog, how do I monetize it?

Blog Monetization

asked Oct 21 '10 at 14:33

William Daniel
8 points

Two friends and I are creating an ecommerce site. I live in VA, while the other two are in NY. If we incorporate in VA and then register in NY as a foreign corporation, how are corporate taxes...

Incorporation Tax

asked Mar 2 '11 at 06:08

Brandonrobison
6 points

I own a successful website selling a software product, but we do absolutely no in-house marketing at all. 75% of our sales come from affiliates promoting us. So, we'd like to become more involved...

Adwords Management PPC

asked Mar 17 '11 at 17:59

John
23 points

I'm planning to file a Delaware LLC for a partnership where I'm the majority owner of our self-funded startup. One key goal for me is to incorporate a vesting option among owners where equity is...

LLC Equity Founders Agreement Delaware Vesting

asked Sep 28 '11 at 05:35

Sheepish
6 points

I am pursuing an opportunity as an outside consultant to an established company, but don't really know how to package my services. Here are a couple of models I have come across: Charge a...

Pricing Marketing IT Consulting Service

asked Jan 27 '12 at 06:33

J.Rightly
106 points

Does anybody know of any source where I can find out what 'real' valuations internet startups are getting? The term 'real' valuation is totally made up, but I mean what actual investors are...

Funding Venture Capital

asked Oct 14 '09 at 09:34

John Mac Intyre
1,086 points

After developing a unique software product for the past 5 years, I am looking to team up with a business developer that can get the right investment for going viral... The prospective business...

Partner Intellectual Property Business Intelligence

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:08

John Sel
6 points