Questions

I am the technical founder of a software product, the product is finished with good inputs from at least 6 to be customers. My to be Sales partner who is already helping me from the past 4 weeks...

Sales Co-Founder Equity Partnerships

asked Jun 8 '11 at 00:13

User11074
39 points

Im asking this as im not sure whether it is better to have partners, who are good in more than one discipline (eg sales/marketing and development/programming), share their time across departments...

Co-Founder Partnerships

asked Feb 10 '12 at 21:48

I Scotts
152 points

A person I have been working for as a contractor has at one point entitled me his "CIO". He has been wanting to be his full-time developer for sometime, and I believe would be willing to make me a...

Co-Founder Technical

asked Oct 5 '10 at 16:13

Nowarninglabel
125 points

I currently have a LLC that I am operating under. I am wanting to start a web service that will be accepting credit card payments. The web service will go under a name that is very different then...

LLC Credit Cards Naming

asked Jan 31 '11 at 12:30

Kellenjb
116 points

I have been offered a position as a technical co-founder (composed of 3 cofounders). We're in the midst of trying to figure how much % of funding we want. We have between 45-60% of our company...

Co-Founder

asked Apr 25 '11 at 22:54

User9968
229 points

We are currently in the month of December and have about $10K (all revenue - all expenses) in our LLC's account. We plan to use this to invest on a project early next year. Unfortunately, it is not...

LLC Tax Investors

asked Dec 21 '11 at 03:33

David
6 points

i need a professional advice on the following situation: we are a Poland company, we want to open a subsidiary in the USA. The purpose is to buy goods from American company, and then export these...

Tax Subsidiary

asked Apr 30 '13 at 06:42

User26050
6 points

We are a small online business that has been running for a couple of years. We have an annual turnover of around £35,000, profit on which is around £10,000. We haven't spent much time or effort on...

Valuation

asked May 12 '13 at 10:29

User26210
6 points

I have a software application targeting the education sector. I lack sales knowledge and would like to sell it through distributors. Can anyone recommend any distributors specializing in education...

Distribution Education

asked Dec 3 '10 at 04:08

User5765
106 points

Do saas apps typically bill for the upcoming month or bill for services provided during the previous month? If it's for the upcoming month (charging per user), how do you deal with someone who has...

Billing

asked Jan 25 '11 at 13:48

Jc01
116 points

I'm not sure what the name of the service or person(s) I'm looking for, so I'm asking here hoping I can find the right thing to search for, and maybe even some recommendations. We need someone we...

Tax Payroll

asked Feb 6 '12 at 19:08

Chris Moschini
121 points

I have been a startup advisor for a colleague of mine for several years. He is primed to go from incubatory stage to launch and has some excellent blue-chip customers lined up. He is having...

Board Insurance Titles

asked Mar 18 '12 at 00:40

Francesca
6 points

I've started a software consultancy and an large fortune 500 company has approached us for a project. it's an internal CMS that will take roughly 5-6 months to develop with a team of 3. This is the...

Software Enterprise Consulting Project Planning

asked May 5 '12 at 10:21

Jordan
8 points

We generated several leads on Linked IN through the ad campaign of our API. Verified that those are not bots. What should be the next step?

Marketing Leads

asked Apr 30 '13 at 06:56

Max81
8 points

I am building my startup from home by myself with a remote virtual assistant on ODesk. It's hard sometimes not to procrastinate and end up on Reddit or Hacker news. How do you keep your focus when...

Solo Entrepreneur

asked Feb 6 '14 at 14:32

Vilhelm Vida
16 points

On my SaaS app, I currently only have a recurring monthly option.Should I also add yearly and quarterly payment options (and offer customers a small discount if they pick one of those)?One clear...

Payments Saas Money Discounts

asked Sep 3 '14 at 20:28

Joyce Mc Clellan
9 points

If one wanted to create a new web development tool (free or otherwise), what would it have to be able to do that would differentiate it enough from all the others to attract people's attention? In...

Web Dev

asked May 14 '10 at 17:36

Boost
106 points

Specifically •How did you find them? (craigslist-social networks-newspaper ads- etc) •How did your interview them? (Phone/Skype video chat etc) •How did you get passed the skepticism barrier?...

Hiring Team Expanding

asked Dec 3 '10 at 05:44

Sergio Alvarez
46 points

We are about to launch a Website Builder product(Allows anyone to create a website with a few clicks and without any programming or Photoshop knowledge). Regarding Affiliate Marketing - what do...

Affiliate

asked May 11 '11 at 17:19

Eytan Levit
6 points

Currently I have a standard Gmail account. Each site has email forwarders set up and the mail gets forwarded to that Gmail account, and I can reply with different email profiles. Due to the...

Email Google Apps

asked Jun 26 '11 at 21:44

Eoinoc
110 points