Questions

One of my friends is starting a company and he's looking for a technical co-founder to work with him to build a web app. Where should he look for technical co-founder? Some more details: He is a...

Co-Founder Recruiting CTO

asked Oct 10 '09 at 09:09

Nivi
157 points

I was reading the article about "Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t ". Essentially the article says that it comes down to culture. I don't want to start a holy war, I just want to know the...

Technology Platforms

asked May 20 '11 at 05:01

7wp
275 points

I along with 3 other people created a concept for an innovative Ecommerce platform as part of a 5 week startup pre-incubator. We had a great run and on demo day we won the audience and panel of...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Intellectual Property

asked Aug 20 '11 at 04:10

Adjoa Opoku
106 points

Is Micropreneur Academy worth it? Any members on this site? Also, what does it cost? Background: I read the 'Software by Rob' blog and think he has some very good advice for the whole micro-ISV...

Software Recommendations Learning

asked Nov 17 '09 at 13:43

Dog On
308 points

About 1 year ago, I quit my job to work on my startup. It required a lot of hard work and consumed countless nights. My wife was very involved in this decision. The target was to participate in a...

Day Job Failure

asked Jul 14 '11 at 20:01

Leadgy
222 points

I just started my first business. I’m debating on whether to go with cash-basis accounting or accrual accounting. From what I’ve read it seems that cash-basis is the easier method, but accrual is...

LLC Accounting Accounting Method

asked Mar 27 '10 at 13:54

Zuly Gonzalez
9,194 points

I live in Mexico, and come from a middle-low class family (and that's third world middle-low class) and all my life I've had in me this entrepreneurial dream which I have not been able to make...

Getting Started Foreign

asked Jan 9 '10 at 07:12

Soska
103 points

I'm in the process of developing a desktop application and I expect the first version to be finished by mid-march 2010. I have purchased the domain name and I'm very happy with the one I've got. My...

Software Launch Website

asked Nov 23 '09 at 11:27

Smart Company Software
1,190 points

I wonder when it makes more sense to open a merchant account and use a payment gateway instead of old plain PayPal option? This should depend on the revenue processed, because merchant account has...

Payments

asked Oct 18 '09 at 15:41

Oleg Kokorin
459 points

Do you think it’s possible to do it all? Myself and entrepreneur Martin Bjergegaard are making it our mission to find this out in hopes of writing a book outlining the lessons of our findings. We...

Choices Entrepreneurs Success Profile

asked Oct 12 '09 at 17:17

Jordan Milne
116 points

I find the topic of outsourcing incredibly interesting, and I propose the question: Is Outsourcing Evil? A recent blog post at onstartups got me going about even more about it. Up until this week...

Outsourcing Morality

asked Jan 7 '11 at 09:24

Alex Cook
641 points

Recently I had this idea about a website and I have a passion for it. After doing a lot of research, I know exactly what I need (design, developers, management, etc.) and I have had a few...

Competition Website Business

asked Nov 1 '10 at 12:45

Cluelessbear
96 points

It's nice when folks quote parts of your post with a link back. It's another thing when the entire RSS entry is duplicated verbatim, including my "Retweet" buttons and the "Please leave a comment"...

Blog Legal Copyright Bloggers RSS

asked Mar 19 '10 at 02:00

Jason
16,231 points

I'm looking for a domain name for my new project and one of the variants is available but has a hyphen between the two words. The non hyphenated variant is registered in the cayman islands. Are...

Website

asked Nov 19 '09 at 12:34

Sam Saffron
432 points

Over the past several months, we've been expanding our marketing efforts to include developers and other techies. One thing we've noticed is that these front-line folks don't want to talk. At...

Marketing Sales

asked Dec 10 '10 at 11:39

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

I have 500 paying customers and 7000 free users grossing about $7k a month and growing fast. I'm tied down at least for several hours a day to handle daily maintenance and answering technical...

Hiring

asked Mar 12 '12 at 03:21

User106377
96 points

I've been working on a side project for several months, and it's doing ok. I've done a lot of testing and talking to customers, and I'm very confident that this could be a viable small business...

Failure

asked Dec 21 '11 at 02:24

Nick Budden
129 points

I am having a lot of anxiety and fear when thinking about quitting my high paying job to join a startup that has a lot of potential. I have great hours, an excellent management team, and rewarding...

Getting Started Career

asked Aug 17 '11 at 02:50

Imaginative
205 points

A few months into the startup and I have a feeling my founder is losing interest/passion/ability to put large amounts of time into the business. The reason this is tough, is because he's the...

Co-Founder Motivation Founder

asked Oct 14 '09 at 00:33

Ryan Graves
86 points

I am the founder of a very early stage startup, 4 people total, just incorporated with no funding and a minimal amount of money already in. We expect to raise funding in 3-6 months, before then...

Finance

asked Oct 11 '09 at 08:56

Jer Levine
173 points