Questions

Someone wants to invest in my idea. I'm building this project and it's a very good idea. I'm thinking about starting my own company for this project. This person heard about my idea and he is very...

Business Investment

asked Mar 20 '11 at 10:46

Luka
8 points

I am new to the start up world and doing well as a sales executive for the company who was given a base salary to start with no invested interest in the company. The base salary goes down on an...

Equity

asked Aug 4 '11 at 10:48

Ones
6 points

I'm considering registering a business that I am bootstrapping. At this point I am concerned about keeping costs down. The cheapest option in my state is to register a Sole Proprietorship. The next...

Startup Costs Saas Business Liability

asked Dec 14 '11 at 02:42

Mike Nereson
411 points

My company is developing a web application and we are about to release a developers API soon. We would like to promote our API to 3rd party developers so that they develop their own applications...

API

asked Feb 23 '12 at 20:32

Ita
81 points

I run a community for pug owners. It's been around for nearly 7 years and it's a "popular" site within the pug community. It's a completely custom site (I built the whole thing from...

Community Social Network

asked Jan 30 '13 at 04:14

Shpigford
146 points

We are a tech consulting company and our current group consists of four equity partners. We are interested in adding a new "business" partner, as our current partners are all technical, but we know...

Co-Founder Equity Distribution Vesting

asked Apr 27 '13 at 06:31

Bd2x
6 points

Background:A guy reached out to me to join his drone company. I have been fascinated with drones for some time now, I bought my own and I have been toying with the idea of a drone business...

Partnership Team

asked Aug 15 '14 at 17:45

JayJay
106 points

Possible Duplicate: Where to draw ideas from? My hope is by asking this question, that many of you who are very proficient in doing a start-up would be able to enlighten some of us who just come...

Getting Started Ideas

asked Jan 6 '12 at 06:02

Kyle B.
106 points

This is not really a question but a muse about what I'm thinking of a better way to monetize mobile traffic via house ads. Yes, I seek your opinions. If I were to have a "worldwide" popular app at...

Business Model Monetization Ads Mobile Payments Mobile Apps

asked Feb 23 '12 at 20:36

Killua
68 points

Almost every startup out there says things like "we do x for y". For example "We're Twitter for Education", etc. That seems to be too overused these days. Do VC's experience ad-blindness like...

Pitch Elevator Pitch

asked Feb 4 '14 at 09:40

Otha Dominguez
6 points

Once I've solidified what we're offering, where and what are some cheap/free ways to get students involved. I need really creative ideas here. Craigslist doesn't cut it as a good answer. In my...

Marketing Advertising

asked Aug 2 '10 at 15:41

Ryan Chatterton
921 points

We are an early start up (7 months old), and we are in talks with 3 - 4 clients. We are building an E-learning kind of tool and looking for building the content as well. I kind of sensed one...

Marketing Sales Funding

asked Mar 5 '11 at 00:40

Karan
54 points

I'm trying to raise a startup with three other people. The idea is to have a first prototype of the product and then seek funding. So far we have collaborated informally, but now we will go into...

Funding

asked Jan 31 '12 at 08:15

Lightman
8 points

Which credit card processor allow us to retrieve payment information from their server in case if we need the payment information? I believe my question isn't clear enough and I decided to write a...

Payments Credit Cards

asked Oct 3 '12 at 15:00

Simplyme
186 points

I have a start-up company and currently working and promoting one website. Should I use the logo of the website or the logo of the company on my business card when I approach corporate clients to...

Marketing Branding

asked Mar 29 '13 at 15:53

Zen
8 points

I'm a solo founder who wants to hire the first three employees. I decided to wait until my revenues would support hiring three people because just hiring one person would have felt a little awkward...

Solo Entrepreneur Hiring

asked Mar 29 '14 at 02:25

Abe Tang
6 points

I am an experienced computer developer, I was enjoying making computer programs since I was just 10, back to 1994. And since 2001, I started to create computer software as my part time and later...

Funding Co-Founder Venture Capital Investors Fundraising

asked Aug 18 '14 at 10:45

Shahab
6 points

I am an interpreter and business assistant. How can I ask for payment if there is no written agreement beforehand? What can I say to my client?

Payments Business

asked Aug 15 '10 at 20:08

Steven
1 point

I've developed a working prototype; interface and core functionality for a pretty complex system. (I need the prototype for capital-raising purposes and proof-of-concept.) I am NOT a professional...

Software Development Cost

asked Apr 16 '11 at 02:03

Anonymous
16 points

Okay so i Know this question has been asked before but i feel like this is a little different. Can you patent a medium of marketing/advertising. For instance, billboards on the highway. Obviously...

Marketing Patent

asked Jan 19 '12 at 14:54

Alex Betz
6 points