Questions

We're all familiar with the traditional shared equity arrangements in a startup; Some contribution = Some % of shares (thus equity) in the company, which may or may not payoff down the road at...

Bootstrapped Hiring Equity Royalties Stocks

asked Apr 16 '12 at 12:18

Inator
106 points

I've been going over some of the posts here regarding server costs but couldn't really find any information specific to my needs. I'm planning on creating a mobile app that deals with users...

Video Costs Server

asked May 21 '12 at 05:40

Zipper
6 points

I received offer from company that just raised Series A round. I'm trying to determine a method of finding out how much my stock options are worth. They gave me multiple offers with varying...

Venture Capital Employees Tax Stock Options

asked Jul 2 '13 at 16:34

Harmon
6 points

I am not sure if I should wait till I have multitudes of users, or just start monetizing it now. My first instinct would be just to allow it to be monetized by ads. I only need it to pay for...

Strategy Monetization Saas Product Launch

asked Aug 22 '13 at 08:03

Dkroy
130 points

Almost everyone complains about recruiters hammering them with calls and emails. If I were to call several startups, before I could finish my sentence after saying the word "recruiter", they'd...

Recruiting Hiring Human Resources

asked Mar 21 '14 at 13:11

Gregory Justice
30 points

More and more startups seem to be using SSL sites as the default (even for their logged out states). Is this a trend to provide better privacy for consumers that has become the norm?SSL definitely...

Technology Website User Experience Security Applications

asked May 5 '14 at 13:21

Karen Russ
7 points

I read here, and in articles elsewhere, about how important it is for a startup to be located in Silicon Valley. But they're all very vague, mentioning "the energy" or "the talent" or...

Networking Location Silicon Valley Investors

asked Feb 26 '11 at 20:04

Sean
134 points

How would you compare a telecommuting (overseas) job at a startup (when everything at the startup be it the work, the environment, the people, etc looks exciting enough) with another job at the...

Development Jobs Growth Overseas

asked Aug 19 '11 at 03:19

Atul Goyal
496 points

We would like to produce a regular email newsletter but don't have the time to do all of the content creation ourselves, so we thought of commissioning regular content, and adding a few of our own...

Outsourcing Content

asked Sep 8 '11 at 00:21

Lrussell
106 points

I've been part of a small team at a startup (LLC) for about a year and a half now (since inception), working unders a PSA (Professional Services Agreement) that grants me a "membership interest"....

CTO Legal Independent Contractor Web App

asked Jul 13 '12 at 08:37

David Oritz
8 points

We're struggling to find a CRM suitable for ourselves, a SAAS company. When customers sign up for trials, we want to be able to keep a record of their progress with prompts to call or email them...

Sales Software Management CRM Growth

asked Sep 19 '13 at 19:46

Igor K
106 points

Myself and a couple of associates are starting up a job advertisement and CV database site. As part of the functionality of our site will be that employers based in various countries, can look...

Website Terms And Conditions Legal Documents

asked Nov 20 '13 at 09:36

Joe Taylor
6 points

I want to use a third party service for storing and processing my inventory for an eCommerce site. The logistics of packing and shipping are just too much for me to bear.The problem is that the...

Ecommerce Shipping Amazon Alternatives Logistics

asked Jul 14 '14 at 21:59

Harold Paschal
7 points

How might you record a loan from directors to the company in the books? From my perspective this is an investment into the company which I hope will be refunded when the company makes...

UK Accounting

asked Jan 5 '11 at 05:56

Romkyns
118 points

I have been a 1099 consultant/contractor for the past 5 years. As a contractor I always buy my own health insurance and I deduct these premiums as part of my annual business expenses each year at...

Health Insurance

asked Aug 26 '11 at 00:20

Matt
106 points

How can I evaluate my online venture on the basis of traffic and user acquisition to estimate the value of my company and do financial projections. Say, an online venture has 1000 registered users...

Finance Valuation User Acquisition Fundraising

asked Sep 19 '12 at 03:42

Sourabh
288 points

Formed LLC, but wonder how to account for inventory I've already purchased and will now sell via the company. I've been re-selling as a hobby, and now converting to a business. I'm in the US. No...

LLC Tax

asked Oct 12 '12 at 09:16

Rob
6 points

I'm a web developer who is one half of a start up. Part of our business is designing, building, and hosting websites for clients. Past experience has shown me that webapp maintenance can, at times,...

Blog Inbound Marketing SEO

asked Mar 3 '10 at 10:08

Chris
176 points

I particularly like Smart Bear's Blog interface. It's easy to leave a comment, sign up, low barrier of entry to leave a comment, and it's easy for others to chime in on comments. I like the clean...

Blog

asked Oct 28 '10 at 03:58

Alex
40 points

I built a web site, that people can reserve sport fields. I talked to sport facilities and told them that, they can sell their unreserved hours through this web site. Most of them accepted to join...

Chicken And Egg

asked Dec 7 '10 at 20:47

Skuzey
6 points