Questions

Amongst my many ventures I run a new, small and unregistered content writing company. I have developed a decent working model with 15 employees. I am inexperienced in "for-profit" field. I am...

Sales Affiliate Resellers

asked Nov 9 '10 at 14:10

Prateek Mishra
137 points

Active forums and communities take on a life of there own. My question is how to get started. A forum with tumbleweeds rolling through it will never get anywhere. There is some kind of minimum...

Community Forum

asked Mar 19 '11 at 04:08

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

Similar questions have been asked, but I'm still not completely understanding. I have an LLC that sells apparel, and people have offered to give us donations because the idea of our company is to...

LLC Legal Non Profit Tax Donations

asked Nov 30 '11 at 01:00

Brandersnatcher
8 points

Someone wants to purchase software that I've written. Is giving him a royalty free, exclusive world-wide license the same as selling the software? If not what are the differences?

Software Software Licensing

asked Jan 4 '12 at 09:23

Sam
6 points

We have founding partners who work for our start-up company full-time. We are now having a first external equity investor coming in. We have enough financing to last about one year at which time we...

Founder Investors

asked Jan 17 '13 at 05:21

User23570
6 points

I have a question similar to this one, with one difference: I'm going to be running my business while travelling the world over the next few years, both in the US and out. (I'm a resident of...

LLC Location Legal Tax Business

asked Jun 12 '13 at 15:56

Archagon
111 points

What's the point of Etsy providing an API when they don't have an affiliate program. No site will be able to monetize traffic sent to them.Or do they do deals on an individual basis with developers...

API Affiliate Marketing Etsy

asked Feb 27 '14 at 22:08

Rafael Raber
50 points

In your opinion, which social media channel (except FB, Twitter, LinkedIn) could likely trend this year? For both B2B and B2C marketing.

Marketing Social Media Trends

asked Mar 24 '14 at 14:13

Lawrence Farwell
47 points

I'm currently running a SaaS and I'm starting to look around to hire the first sales rep / sales agent, so the last few days I've read a lot about creating a sales plan, commissions, base...

Sales B2B Saas Commission

asked Jul 20 '14 at 22:46

James
6 points

I just incorporated a Delaware C Corp a few months ago and have no significant activity yet. I have 2 Advisors that I need to issue options to, and my question is how do I set the option exercise...

Advisors Stock Options

asked Sep 7 '10 at 08:47

Newyuppie
441 points

I'm a college entrepreneur (currently pursuing my bachelors in Business) and I've been studying/reading books about the different strategies that successful business school candidates use to get...

MBA Ideas Non Technical

asked Jun 19 '11 at 14:48

Djs13
30 points

I have worked for a small 25 employee non-profit in the US for the past 4 years. About 9 months ago, I identified some deficiencies within the company in the areas of data management and...

Legal Termination Non Profit Intellectual Property

asked Sep 30 '11 at 11:43

Jak
8 points

if there is a batch software released under the GPL, can I create a services that calls that batch and uses it's output?I do not go into the source code of the program, I just call the batch file

GPL

asked Oct 31 '11 at 22:48

Ryan
147 points

I came across kickstarter webpage which offers an excellent opportunity to raise money needed to launch a product/service without prior personal financial investments. We are a team of engineers...

Venture Capital Investment

asked Dec 12 '11 at 21:34

Niko
128 points

I have a site for which I am working to improve user onboarding. What happens now is that when a user does some action that requires him to be logged in, I make a jQuery popup come up telling him...

Website Registration

asked Dec 27 '11 at 01:27

Genadinik
1,821 points

I've finally found someone I wish to extend an offer to as a business partner and make him a part owner in the company, only he's international. The company is an LLC based in the USA and this...

Partner International

asked Feb 15 '12 at 09:34

Marco Ceppi
126 points

I came across Microsoft Surface today, and one tiny detail get me thinking. There is a small "TM" next to the word "Surface", can they do that? Can a common word like surface be trademarked like...

Legal USA Trademark

asked Jun 19 '12 at 17:09

Martin Kristiansen
102 points

I have been considering getting an angel investor or joining an incubator. How long do you have to be "successful"? What is successful to an investor? More details I'm working on a project that...

Investors

asked May 25 '13 at 09:34

1.21 Gigawatts
109 points

What do you think about giving engineers a small software assignment that they complete at home and send over before scheduling an interview. This would really help an employer save both their and...

Hiring Employees Human Resources Engineers Software Engineers

asked May 9 '14 at 16:40

Ruth Mercedes
7 points

I'm the business co-founder in our startup and creating processes to keep things running smoothly and being able to focus on sales.Should startups have a process in the place for hiring? If so,...

Recruiting Founders Business Startups Process

asked Jul 21 '14 at 15:03

Ralph Setzer
9 points