Getting Started Questions

Some time back, I set out to solve a specific problem: How can I help people who haven't met yet collaborate to create great ideas ahead of weekend startup events?I couldn't find a site out there...

Getting Started Ideas Website Validation

asked Oct 25 '12 at 03:15

Jeremy Parsons
5,197 points

I'm altering a contract between myself and another individual. The contract defines clauses for forcing another partner out but does not define how percentage of ownership shall be handled. I.e....

Getting Started Contract Legal Legal Documents

asked Oct 26 '12 at 13:26

Rks
108 points

I'm meeting with a local incubator tomorrow and I would like to know if it's okay to tell them I'm going to "shop around". I want to talk to other incubators and see what they can bring to the...

Getting Started Funding Incubators Investors

asked Oct 30 '12 at 23:10

Dragonman
120 points

I've been meeting with mentors and entrepreneurs to learn more about startups. I've been told that is better to focus in one feature and one sector in the market. I have a service that can help...

Getting Started

asked Oct 31 '12 at 16:26

Zapoo
303 points

Imagine I am working on a start up that is at a functional prototype level and so far, I have not registered it anywhere and basically done no legal work whatsoever. Now, I need to be looking for...

Getting Started Legal

asked Nov 5 '12 at 18:30

I Code
111 points

What do you do when a huge online company (as dominant as say Google, Apple, Microsoft etc in their respective niche) has a big feature that's been lacking in their very popular product, and your...

Getting Started Marketing Ideas Development Website

asked Nov 5 '12 at 23:57

Nyxynyx
193 points

I am working in a small software company. Owner directly manages the business. I'd like to start my own project, part time. I have a family. It is difficult to find free time to work on my...

Getting Started Part Time

asked Oct 3 '12 at 06:44

Mel1
6 points

Every day I receive invitations to win holidays, gift vouchers, cash, cars etc. When you go to the site there are literally hundreds if these deals listed. I know some of these sites simply...

Getting Started Advertising Database Market Research

asked Oct 3 '12 at 13:16

Dean Nesmith
6 points

So we are 2 co-founders having a full time job and from the last 14 months are working on a social network. I wanted to share the name of our start up here, but somehow I think that would be cheap...

Getting Started Marketing Co-Founder SEO

asked Oct 5 '12 at 01:30

Rajiv Singh
14 points

I am in the early stages of bootstrapping a startup. The product is a cloud-based service for businesses within a very specific industry. I have worked as a UX & UI developer and design...

Getting Started Partnership

asked Oct 13 '12 at 19:54

Conrad
108 points

I have an idea for a website that myself and a partner have started to get going. One of our first steps was speaking with a web developer. The site may run over our budget. The developer (who is a...

Getting Started Venture Capital Web Services Investors Profit Sharing

asked Sep 19 '12 at 10:28

Melissa
6 points

No matter what shape the economy is in, the government will always have at least a few if not many contracts with defense contractors. I would like to start a business as a supplier to these...

Getting Started Funding Business Government

asked Sep 22 '12 at 04:17

Greg Mc Nulty
75 points

I'm interested in projects like Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Basically they are doing the same thing - helps to get money from the people who likes your idea. So when I'm raising money and asking...

Getting Started Money Fundraising Kickstarter

asked Sep 24 '12 at 16:45

Ignas B.
103 points

We have a very complex team and our actual roles and skills are known to each other only after we started working and deciding the equities which would be vested in few years. We started working...

Getting Started Equity Enterprise

asked Sep 28 '12 at 13:08

User1699696
8 points

As a 1-man show I've been building a social startup for the last 10 months. A lot of the time on development has been spent learning a new programming language (Ruby on Rails) and also all the...

Getting Started Launch Product Launch

asked Sep 29 '12 at 22:54

Rubytastic
139 points

I am developing a modest web site that shows content created by external providers. I use this content to promote my goods and sell them. Instead of paying a fix upfront price for the content (I...

Getting Started Payments Tax

asked Sep 5 '12 at 15:43

Serialfailer
8 points

I am a software developer. I have a good idea and I'd like to create a startup. I am planning to invite one or two of my colleagues as co-founders. Problems: 1) Free time I realised it is very...

Getting Started Ideas Business

asked Sep 6 '12 at 07:42

Mel
68 points

I am a software developer. I have a good idea and I'd like to create a startup. I am planning to invite one or two of my colleagues as co-founders. I am concerned about the relationships with my...

Getting Started Legal Website Intellectual Property

asked Sep 11 '12 at 07:32

Mel
68 points

I am going to start a business of software development. But before that I am having some questions. There are two possibilities: 1- I gain experience developing softwares (especially programming...

Getting Started

asked Sep 12 '12 at 23:11

Gpuguy
102 points

I want to start a software business. It's probably been said a million times before on this forum, and software start-up's being in such abundance is one of the reasons for this question. I don't...

Getting Started Marketing Software Market Research

asked Aug 16 '12 at 01:40

Dee Mac
123 points