Questions

Sorry for the California specificity of my question, but that is where I am located. I want to close my S-corp (I'm taking a full time job). Ideally, I'd like to do it before the end of the year...

California USA S Corp

asked Nov 9 '13 at 06:02

Dave
160 points

I came here to ask about: How do companies divide their equity shares among the founders and investors? For example, consider two persons are building a company. Person1 came with the idea of an...

Funding Equity Investment Shares Startup

asked Jun 9 '14 at 07:28

Sky Buzz
36 points

I am interested to build a startup. But I need a partner, most probably someone that has the skills that I don't have. I have technical backgrounds in web development and scrum project management....

Partner

asked Oct 17 '09 at 19:13

Jpartogi
1,342 points

Does anyone use the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit? I found this article from Scott Gu and it looks pretty good. Before I spend my time on it I want to know if its worth it. Thanks

SEO

asked Jun 11 '10 at 04:13

Stefanos Tses
981 points

I'm looking for a legitimate/affordable/responsive company to order some promo pens from (with our logo etc). I've found http://www.pens.com/pens/ via Google, they look legit, but I thought I'd...

Marketing Swag Logo Promotion

asked Oct 13 '10 at 10:37

Roman M
106 points

We are almost done with a new HRD&M web application for pre-selecting the best fit candidates for a given position. What we still need is some real-life test cases, design and content for...

Marketing Website Testing

asked Feb 1 '11 at 21:54

Muleskinner
18 points

I'm curious about how you guys organize your ideas for starting up a new business. I have a bunch of ideas that I never tried to implement, basically because I just don't know from where I could...

Recommendations Web Website

asked Feb 24 '11 at 14:07

Tiago Cardoso
202 points

Thanks for taking time to read my post and sorry for the loaded questions -- please read patiently to help me. Here is the scenario: Founder has the startup idea vetted 3.5 years ago -- but never...

Equity Team Distribution

asked Mar 4 '12 at 17:55

Sandra Mistry
6 points

Hope all is well. I just conducted a round of feedback interviews with 20 people(mostly students) about my startup. The results are 50% saying its a great idea and other 50% think its not worth it....

Getting Started Marketing Launch Ideas Customer Feedback

asked Feb 21 '13 at 02:43

Trana
24 points

I would like to convince a talented engineer to come join my startup as employee #2 (there are just three of us at the moment). The company he currently works at is the large gorilla competitor of...

Hiring Poaching

asked Feb 13 '14 at 16:23

Jason
11 points

All the plugins I've tried have not worked, and the sites that I've tried want my passwords. I'm not comfortable with that. No plugin seems to be able to post to Pinterest (high priority). Google+...

Social Media Wordpress Shares Automation

asked Nov 7 '14 at 05:45

Starrychloe S.
83 points

I'm looking for Virtual Assistance. However rather than an individual who can do low-level personal tasks like find a present for my wife, I'm looking for a full-service company that can do a wide...

Virtual Workforce Business

asked Apr 13 '11 at 08:42

Nicholas
106 points

I'm the co-founder of a bootstrapping startup, and I have incentive to prefer short-term compensation, like deferred salary, instead of equity. Would it be reasonable to apply a multiplier to the...

Equity Salary

asked Jul 18 '11 at 00:10

Ashton M.
83 points

I've $100,000 from my personal money for a new company. I was thinking about going to Austin, TX, as I've heard Silicon Valley is more to raise money than to actually develop apps. Viewing all the...

Venture Capital Angel Business Plan Fundraising

asked May 25 '12 at 23:55

Hartator
116 points

I'm wondering. My question is a bit odd - StackExchange Vs. Amazon. StackExchange is a mega website that revolves around Q&A. For some reason they chose to make a separate website for each...

Products

asked Feb 21 '13 at 03:24

And Py
15 points

I have been a solo founder my whole life and have managed to start several businesses without the need for outside funding. Yet, when I decided to explore my options and try to join an incubator...

Solo Entrepreneur Ycombinator

asked Feb 13 '14 at 17:16

User30118
6 points

The person I have in mind is an early-stage marketing & sales person, someone who exclusively specializes in taking early-stage startups from a beta customer or two to some point of critical...

Marketing Employees

asked Nov 18 '09 at 23:24

Cortez
26 points

I'm currently researching how to go about creating a US subsidiary of a UK company. One of the people involved in the business wondered if it would be possible to use an LLP to do business in the...

UK Tax International Partnerships

asked Oct 20 '10 at 11:20

Brian
28 points

I have two questions about partnership. If I get a partner that has experience in the business world and the industry and little or no cash maybe $15k-10k, for a new service I’m starting up. What...

Partnerships

asked Jun 28 '11 at 09:15

Sergio Alvarez
46 points

I am self-employed developer resident in an EU country. Currently working on a product that will be eventually be sold online. Over the years I’ve noticed that several smaller UK software companies...

Tax Tax Structure

asked Sep 16 '11 at 19:30

Canacourse
106 points