Questions

A challenge I'm facing in a brand new company is building contacts and gathering trusted customers. Specifically, how do I convince potential customers that we will provide the best quality of...

Marketing Software

asked Sep 19 '11 at 22:03

Suresha H
4 points

I would like to start a ecommerce website in India, could you please help me with the legal requirements and any guidance for this. My intent is to sell merchandise through internet. Do I need to...

India Ecommerce Legal

asked Aug 27 '11 at 00:29

Raga
4 points

I was working for a large financial firms as Senior Technical Architect, spending almost 15 hours a day. I quit my job around 18 months back to start this startup and taking an underpaid/under...

Bootstrapped Hiring Technology Day Job Jobs

asked Jul 7 '11 at 18:17

User11074
39 points

We are considering outsourcing some of our web development (Kohana PHP , MySQL) so that we can development multiple streams at the same time, and to keep costs down. I love like to hear from...

Outsourcing

asked Apr 3 '10 at 22:34

Matt O
44 points

I'm going to start raising funds for my company soon. I already have more than a prototype website and can take payments, but still need to get a little more development complete. I'm undecided on...

Venture Capital Angel Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 15 '12 at 17:59

Anagio
293 points

I'm generally interested in how economy works, because i think it closely relates to businesses. I would like to ask something about stocks. Imagine that there is a company with 100 stocks. Now,...

Investors Stock Options Economics

asked Jun 6 '11 at 17:51

Spyros P
132 points

I am a new entrepreneur seeking investors. I need $4 million in capital to start my company. Investors came forward to help me with my required capital, but they are asking for 50% of lifetime...

Investment Shares

asked Aug 19 '11 at 18:42

Karz
126 points

First of all thank you to everybody for my previous questions on this site, you inspire me to think about problems differently. My father and I had a great idea for a web based startup, we have...

Competition Market Analysis

asked Nov 15 '11 at 23:40

Maple Shaft
323 points

I'm contemplating writing an Android version of the dominoes game which I'll release in Google Play and I wondered if there's a chance of committing a copyright infringement by doing so. I did a...

License Gaming Intellectual Property

asked May 27 '13 at 14:49

Asenovm
106 points

We all agree that is nice to give a small gift of congratulations card to our best clients but... what is the best kind of gifts to give them? Something useful, something related to your contract,...

Gifts

asked Nov 26 '10 at 08:27

Fuzzyalej
184 points

Our product is a cloud based application available cross platform. It's functionality, summed up, is to help you share the books you read with your friends. We are in the stages of market...

Saas Market Research

asked Sep 20 '12 at 17:57

Max Willmo
106 points

I'm starting a game studio which targets the younger generation (children and teens). My questions are: does the name of the studio matter? if yes, how should I name it? and what are the things...

Naming

asked Jun 1 '11 at 17:23

James Bolton
4 points

I am a software engineer with two years of experience and I am planning to get into internet advertising. I can put in hard work. I have experience running a non-technical business. My problem is...

Internet Marketing Mobile Apps

asked Sep 20 '12 at 20:12

Darpan
118 points

People always say before start a business your product has to solve a problem that people have. It seems to me that video games are for entertainment purposes and doesn't this seem a little too...

Business Plan

asked May 5 '11 at 09:53

Chris Bui
104 points

At what point do you end a startup relationship, if you're 1.5 months into development and the business cofounder says he only have 8-12 hours a week to work on a company? After saying he could do...

Getting Started Bootstrapped Strategy

asked Nov 16 '11 at 03:18

Noe D
4 points

We have three co-founders...all of us business men and business owners. None of us are programmers. We have decided that finding one more co-founder(a coder), would probably be the best move for...

Funding Partnerships

asked Jun 20 '12 at 10:36

Derek
164 points

What is the minimum (not theoretical, but realistic) equity stake an angel investor will be looking for in a new tech startup? Is it practical to offer equity in 1% denominations? Ex: give up 1%...

Equity Angel

asked Nov 26 '10 at 09:26

Mr. Schwabe
147 points

I'm planning to develop an iPhone application that will connect to facebook and our own company website. I know that I will need a developer for this. But what's the ideal team to get this kind of...

Development Website Iphone

asked Jan 17 '11 at 16:48

Cluelessbear
96 points

First off I'm very glad to have found this exchange because a lot of questions will be forthcoming from me. The skinny: I started a new business a couple months ago, an LLC. My skill set is in...

Getting Started Venture Capital Angel

asked Jul 26 '12 at 10:51

Manchine
104 points

Intended name for my startup seems to be free to use. A search in global/eu/us trademark databases all returned no entity with the same name. TLDs with my domain are either free or offered for...

Launch Incorporation Trademark Domain Name

asked May 9 '13 at 05:15

Eneyee
6 points