Questions

What are the most important meta skills an entrepreneur should either have or develop to become more successful? When I refer to meta skills, I am referring to skills that can help a person...

Entrepreneurs Success Learning Skill

asked Jan 22 '10 at 05:54

Barak Reeves
8 points

I have a startup and I have LOTS of risks; 1) Companies suing me because of internal politics 2) My software is running on a corporate server, which I have no control over and if this goes down I...

Risk Insurance

asked Nov 25 '10 at 00:05

David
1,567 points

We are a young B2B SaaS Startup operating in the Social CRM space. First time Entrepreneurs, but with plenty of experience in our respective areas of work. We've received financial grant of 50,000...

Valuation

asked Apr 8 '11 at 17:03

Dhana
16 points

50,000 usd as an investor. They will have no roles in the company as far as management anything else. I will be doing all the leg work. I have the copyrights and trademark for the logo and name of...

Equity

asked Aug 13 '11 at 00:14

Bronson
6 points

The two terms 'Lifestyle Branding' and 'Aspirational Branding' seem to be used in the same or very similar context. Is there a difference between them or are they just synonyms

Marketing Branding

asked Jan 16 '12 at 08:45

James Coote
130 points

I would like to have a clarification over this case: http://www.genomeweb.com/illumina-creates-poison-pill-response-roche-bid Does this mean that if anybody buys shares today, they will be able to...

Shares

asked Jan 27 '12 at 20:33

6152142613526
68 points

So i'm running a startup and i get to sign a lot of paperwork, It really annoys me to fill in the details of a PDF, print it, sign it, then scan it again. Is it legal to sign my signature on a...

Legal

asked Feb 2 '12 at 23:44

Mark
31 points

Could a limited company decide to pay dividends only to certain individuals, e.g., those who hold 50% or more of the outstanding shares? If not, do dividends have to be paid out proportionately to...

Business Profit Sharing

asked May 29 '12 at 02:18

Kate
99 points

Can a vesting schedule be applied to a non-founding member of a corporation (eg. an officer, employee, etc)?

Incorporation Vesting

asked Aug 11 '12 at 04:15

Dave
34 points

My startup is a marketplace for compute time (a crowd-sourced alternative to Amazon EC2/Web Services), where buyers can rent computer time via the internet by the hour. Ideally I'd like to...

Risk Customers Payments

asked Sep 17 '13 at 02:54

Steve
310 points

I tried adding reCaptcha to my signup page in order to prevent automated signups (we're having a problem where someone is creating hundreds of accounts a day to spam).Adding the captcha resulted in...

Technology Technical Spam Conversion

asked Apr 19 '14 at 01:27

Mark Guy
7 points

We have a platform Skill-Guru for teachers and experts to create test. The Skill-Guru blog section has topics which are mostly technical and some new news or test announcement . Now we have...

Blog Inbound Marketing Hosting

asked Jan 22 '10 at 06:33

Skillguru
344 points

I'm a resident of California and will be starting a company this year but will not be living in California as I'm teaching English in China. So that means I don't have a address in the USA to...

Ecommerce

asked Apr 10 '10 at 02:32

Sam
106 points

Fanciful title really translates in simple English as this: We are (read I am ) a bootstrapped, cash strapped startup and I need to employ the services of outsite experts but want to a). minimise...

Marketing Sales Bootstrapped Inbound Marketing Business

asked Jul 19 '11 at 21:09

Voidstar
55 points

I understand I can either go with a combination of: Payment Gateway (ex: Authorize.net) and Subscription management service (Spreedly, Cheddargettar) or go with one solution that provides both...

Payments Subscriptions Micro Startup

asked Mar 29 '12 at 01:27

User3462
345 points

We are planning for a software startup and following is our setup. There are 4 people who came up with idea. But these people can NOT code and build a product. These 4 people are also going to...

Software Equity Founders Agreement Team

asked Jul 11 '12 at 21:24

John M
8 points

Ok, I am a one person developer and I have an android app on the google app store I also have it published on the amazon app store. I plan on eventually publishing a version on the apple store as...

Sales Tax Apps Android Apple

asked Aug 11 '12 at 05:11

S.A.Jay
20 points

I am writing a new website. The functionality works fine but the user-interface is decent but nothing catchy (as my design and css skills are poor) It is quite clear than even an average web...

Website User Interface

asked Mar 23 '13 at 19:37

Arahant
116 points

So I have a question about the theoretical holding of charitable donations. So I have a start up idea that I am busy coding away on... At the base of the idea is spreading the wealth of humanity,...

Legal User Experience Currency

asked Apr 20 '13 at 07:45

Brendan Morrison
106 points

Personally I've no idea about how to use twitter for marketing other than opening a twitter account and posting links about our product. Today I was looking one of our competitors account there...

Marketing Twitter

asked Jan 13 '10 at 09:41

The Dictator
2,305 points