Questions

Does anyone have any experience when it comes to jumping directly into your own credit card processor and merchant account with an online startup? I know some merchant accounts require you are...

Ecommerce Payments Credit Cards Merchant Account

asked Apr 24 '11 at 09:44

Sk24iam
344 points

I created a functional SW prototype intended for Xbox or PlayStation. It is based on very simple idea, which once presented can be simply stolen. How can I protect my idea (prototype)? Will be...

Software Investors Prototype

asked May 20 '11 at 11:14

Stanyko
6 points

I have builded some web startups earlier with medium winnings. I have to say that the whole work was done by myself as I have the ability to do it programmatically. However I think I am not the...

Employees Website Human Resources

asked Sep 8 '11 at 08:25

Nikolai
125 points

I run a mail service for a particular community of users. This email system goes far beyond an occasional email to a basic mailing list - it is the fabric that holds the community together. I would...

Marketing Advertising Email Ads

asked Oct 19 '11 at 03:38

Wes
6 points

I am currently making a decent amount of income from affiliate marketing (people go to my site, click my link for product X, and if they buy product X, I make a percentage of the sale). I am...

LLC Incorporation Affiliate

asked Mar 30 '12 at 22:20

Martin
1,340 points

Do I need bothh a tax ID and a DBA to start a small business? I plan to do personal training part time at my home or the home of my clients.

DBA

asked Sep 5 '13 at 05:29

User27731
6 points

In the near future I will be taking a small business loan. I had planned on going to my local bank or to lending club but then I figured maybe I can get away with opening a new credit card with a...

Credit Cards Loan

asked Apr 24 '11 at 10:05

Sk24iam
344 points

I am the sole founder of a bootstrapped startup (idea conceived by me, revenue model and business plan developed by me, and I filed a provisional process patent for the concept). I have incoporated...

Equity Independent Contractor Contractor

asked May 3 '12 at 10:40

Ric Bray
13 points

I want to create a startup for US/UK based people, and then expand it to more countries. I am a self-employed/freelancer in Spain. I need to be able to bill my customers by credit card, so people...

Company Billing

asked Sep 5 '12 at 19:11

Alexandru Trandafir Catalin
157 points

I have a tech startup and we design consumer electronic products. For product design I need semiconductors ICs. So I searched over the internet and found that many reputed companies offer the ICs...

Electronics Hardware Manufacturing

asked Oct 15 '12 at 16:12

Sbr1990
6 points

I make games on iOS, Android and Amazon. Although it is already bad on iOS and Android, on Amazon the results are so bad that if they were worse it would be negative. Although my company needs to...

Marketing

asked Dec 20 '12 at 02:35

Speeder
106 points

I would like to run Google AdWords campaigns with the keywords as my competitor's brand names. Some questions: Is it legal to do so? Would consumers view this negatively for my brand (i.e. would my...

Adwords Competition Google PPC Keywords

asked May 11 '14 at 18:44

Yesenia Mc Laughlin
7 points

Is there a formal distinction between the term "early stage" funding and other "early" funding such as seed funding, angel funding and venture funding?

Funding

asked Nov 27 '09 at 15:26

Robert
43 points

First time posting to this Q&A so please be kind! I and a partner are looking to build a web community. However, my partner and I are both business folks. We understand to build a successful...

Co-Founder Technology Equity Technical

asked Feb 11 '11 at 01:55

Li Zhou
323 points

I am finally putting the final touches on my business plan and have begun looking for seed capital for my project. In recent weeks I have come upon new data about the startup capital of some of...

Competition Budget

asked May 10 '11 at 07:50

Miguel Buckenmeyer
482 points

I am in the early stages of bootstrapping a startup. The product is a cloud-based service for businesses within a very specific industry. I have worked as a UX & UI developer and design...

Getting Started Partnership

asked Oct 13 '12 at 19:54

Conrad
108 points

Have an idea for a claims management application. I got one company who is in the selection process amongst other such software but they want to work with me to build something from ground up. I...

Development Enterprise Business Validation

asked May 11 '14 at 18:59

Jo K
11 points

I just finished setting up an online store that involves selling digital content, tangible items like clothes, events tickets etc. However, I have a little challenge on how to charge sellers to add...

Pricing Sales Ecommerce Recommendations

asked Oct 10 '10 at 20:54

Stanley
59 points

What are the pros and cons of using FatFreeCRM? It appears to be a lightweight, open-source CRM package. What important features in other CRM packages is it lacking? How difficult is it to...

Sales Software Recommendations CRM Productivity

asked Nov 20 '10 at 05:27

Joseph Turian
895 points

I set up a company and had a software developer create a new software program for the company. I thought that the idea for the software was novel, and before developing the software, I did some...

Marketing Software Venture Competition Copyright

asked Jan 11 '11 at 10:06

User6492
1,747 points