Questions

Do you think it is important to ask Angel investors or VCs to sign a NDA before disclosing the details of your product ?

Funding Venture Capital

asked Oct 15 '09 at 20:35

Anup
547 points

What is your experience? Which one is better for: Targeted traffic Better conversions Long term effects on sales If you have product that is not "blogable" a lot, which route will you...

Marketing Blog

asked Jul 7 '10 at 23:20

Spiro
105 points

There are many open source shopping carts that don't have any PCI compliance certification. Is it legal to sell/distribute ecommerce related software that isn't compliant? It makes no sense,...

Software Ecommerce

asked Oct 14 '10 at 23:43

Un Startup
162 points

I'm working on an online store where sellers will be posting their digital content, and buyers will buy it. Right now I'm thinking of just doing a 50/50 split of the sell price. The store is no...

Market Selling

asked Jan 21 '11 at 04:58

Merk
108 points

here in my country there are a lot of sell-buy-type sites like ebay somewhat. Two of them are the most popular. I'm thinking in creating a website that when you list something to sell, it...

Legal Website

asked Feb 15 '11 at 06:08

Carlosdubusm
16 points

Background: My business is surveying individuals about their particular career, repackaging this information and publishing it. I have used many tools to acquire these surveys including MTURK and I...

Linkedin Survey

asked May 8 '11 at 13:32

Tyler
8 points

Should a company equity entitlement be stated in your employment contract? If not, what entitlement to any equity do you have? Particularly if you're already employed there?

Contract Equity

asked May 24 '11 at 02:57

Chester
6 points

Sometimes when I order a product, the VAT calculation comes out slightly different when I enter the data into my accounting package. Typically the difference is 1p but sometimes it is more. This...

Accounting VAT

asked Jun 4 '11 at 02:36

Tim Long
108 points

So i have got this idea for this website, but i would definitely need sponsors for the idea to be established, now i dont know why someone would be interested in the idea i would propose to them,...

Website Sponsorship

asked Aug 12 '11 at 13:19

Kraken
133 points

What's the fastest way to get an application built and submitted to the app store? We're willing to pay a development house (or individual, though we prefer teams). We'd prefer to use a domestic...

Development Outsourcing Application

asked Aug 18 '11 at 01:16

User12764
16 points

My husband and I own a company which we started 3 years ago. We have two employees currently. In order to grow and expand, we know two of us are not enough to create and build a more profitable...

Equity

asked Nov 13 '11 at 16:07

Linda
6 points

If I submitted a patent under my personal name and it was abandoned, can I later resubmit or rather submit it under my company name?

Incorporation Business Intellectual Property

asked Mar 7 '13 at 11:07

Sdm
6 points

I would like to get your opinion on bug/issue tracking packages. In my last software dev company we used JIRA with one of the flavors of Subversion. That was in 2007, so a lot has changed since...

Software Bug Tracking CRM

asked Jan 13 '10 at 06:07

Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points

My part-time bookkeeper and I are currently reviewing Xero for accounting. I like the online aspect of being able to enter and view data online (my bookkeeper works from home). The cost seems...

Canada Saas Accounting

asked Oct 27 '10 at 12:14

Jonotron
13 points

Having just been recently laid off, I would like to give some attention to an idea that's been incubating in my mind for a while for an information-based product. This is similar to the model of...

Ideas Planning Recommendations Market Research

asked Apr 22 '11 at 13:40

Ashes999
128 points

I have developed an iPhone photo sharing App on the App store and recently I started interning for a company that makes iPhone games. During my interview I showed them my App as part of my resume...

Intellectual Property

asked Aug 7 '11 at 16:56

Skafia
6 points

I am seeking best practices on the use of a book as part of launching a consulting practice. One option in the business plan that has been identified is the writing of a small book -- about 30K...

Books Writing

asked Aug 31 '11 at 04:07

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

Is it smart to release a small project as free and open-source to display my abilities as a programmer. I don't mean that in a "Hey, look at me, I'm awesome!" way. I mean it in a "This is the...

Pricing Software Open Source Free

asked Oct 10 '11 at 06:02

Jberger
118 points

I'm about to bring on two partners in my LLC. However both have indicated that the "partnership" would be between my company and each of their incorporated entities. Is that normal? What is the...

LLC Partnerships

asked Jan 27 '12 at 09:36

Chris Lively
443 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? So, the situation is this: Last year I was working freelance, and I was commissioned to build a web app....

Co-Founder Equity Business

asked Nov 5 '12 at 04:16

Bluepnume
121 points