Questions

A friend and I created a product, found a manufacturer for it, and are selling it online, but we need to get it into stores. We don't know anything about marketing, we are bootstrapping the...

Sales Retail

asked Oct 30 '12 at 01:44

User21383
6 points

We have a contact with a software company that is becoming a hot issue -- it's renewal time. The contract allows the 3rd party to drop us at will after we've paid our licensing fees for 5 years...

Contract License

asked Apr 27 '13 at 03:10

Snake Doc
179 points

I'am about to start an IT company. Among other things I need Terms-and-Conditions and Privacy-Policy documents. As far as I know I can get such by: writing them by myself; by a lawyer; or buying...

Legal Terms And Conditions Legal Documents

asked Jun 18 '13 at 05:24

Basic
6 points

Which technology stack has the best combination of speed of development, engineering costs and ability to easily find an engineer? Both my co-founder and I are non technical and before we set...

Technology Development Code Developers

asked Feb 2 '14 at 21:30

Levi Bowen
11 points

Who owns the software I wrote that is used by my company? I'm in California. Nine years ago after having been laid off from my programming job, I started a new career. This job has nothing to do...

Intellectual Property

asked Mar 24 '15 at 22:15

Speezy
6 points

do you know how people earn through open source ventures? When free and open source projects help many in great ways, still I think that the people who get involved in it full time (not volunteers)...

Finance Open Source

asked Apr 25 '11 at 15:36

Pathum Mudannayake
178 points

I am on an H1b Visa working for company A. My Green Card has just been filed. My friend is a Green Card holder working for company B. We want to start a start-up business as co-founders. Can...

Getting Started Visa Startupvisa

asked Mar 10 '12 at 07:48

Raj
24 points

This is my situation. I had an idea and wanted to start developing it into a product. I brought in my first "partner" which is a guy I work with on a regular basis, I kicked some ideas around with...

Partnerships Agreements

asked Apr 26 '12 at 16:11

Binary X
208 points

We all talk about what works, would love hear what didn't for others. I feel there is insight to be had, maybe even more valuable, to avoid making mistakes others have made already. So what was...

Ideas Entrepreneurs Business

asked Feb 3 '14 at 10:37

Levi Bowen
11 points

The startup I'm working for is likely to get acquired shortly. We get paid above market rates and it has been one of the reasons for low attrition here.Would an acquirer lower everyone's salary to...

Hiring Acquisition Salary Acqui Hire

asked Mar 3 '14 at 23:53

Clarine Nordberg
40 points

Though I have come across many developers, I still cannot find where there might be a place where Senior developers who love to work in start ups can be found and who understand financial...

Partner Developers

asked Apr 20 '10 at 05:59

Stacey
484 points

So let's take this as a scenario: I have shares in a company in Australia, The company decided to get into the US and do the same service but it'll target US customers. Will the new company have...

Shares Stocks

asked Jan 25 '12 at 13:00

Ryan
139 points

I don't have money for a warehouse right now and I want to ship food with JIT inventory. But in order to do so, I need to have a list of products (around 3000 of them) the store sells. And I need...

Business Market Research Food

asked Feb 5 '12 at 23:59

Sergey
106 points

If a patent contains an ingredient in a product ,along with many other ingredients ,stated to be used for one application,would I get a patent on one of the ingredients for a use not stated and un...

Patent

asked May 4 '12 at 17:28

Peter
6 points

We have developed a platform here in India for consumers which they can also rate and review. We also provide latest informative articles, "how to" guides, etc, to educate customers. Now, we want...

Website Revenue Ads

asked Dec 11 '12 at 22:13

Tejash
6 points

I am currently involved in a Canadian tech startup, and as I am about to enter equity negotiations, I would like to clarify the ownership and copyright of the code base, to better understand the...

Co-Founder Technology Equity Canada Copyright

asked Jul 8 '13 at 08:55

Chris
6 points

When you're not sure which market is worth aiming for, how do you figure out whether to go for a broad market (with lots of competition) or a narrow one (with no competition but good chance to slip...

Competition Market Research Target Market

asked Mar 20 '11 at 08:47

Platinum Azure
133 points

I'm writing down a business plan and I'm looking for a FREE software or worksheet which helps and guides you in preparing the financial documents for the first, say, 5 years of operations (income...

Software Business Plan

asked May 5 '11 at 20:54

Attilio
6 points

I am a founder of a startup with 10% shares. We are in the stage of Series A financing. The valuation of the VC is pretty low according to me. Also the option pool that VC is demanding from us...

Funding

asked Aug 15 '11 at 14:54

A D
6 points

I would've thought that this is the #1 requested insurance for businesses. However, I cannot find much information if such insurance exists. Errors and Omissions insurance does not cover security...

Insurance Security Data Protection

asked Aug 27 '11 at 23:19

Igorek
886 points