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Incentivizing crowdsourcing through stock/equity IOUs: 1 free share per submission
During its mission to raise popularity in the midst of the dot-com boom in '98, TravelZoo gave a few free shares to each person who signed up for their mailing list.
Hypothetically, let's say I'm ...
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Legal considerations when profit sharing and/or incentivising content creation?
I'm interested in building a web app where users are paid a percentage for their content, and I'm wondering where to start. I have no issues with aspects of making payments to users, and gathering the ...
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How to incentivise current employer in future startup?
I am currently employed by a company whose core business is not IT-related but I have developed a few applications that are central to some crucial business processes and I want to create a startup ...
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Founder is responsible for sales and wants incentives in addition to our equal compensation
My partner is the founder and I am the co-founder of our company. He has a sales background and I have operations.
We agreed for him to have more equity (50/30) as the company/products were his ...
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invoicing for a bonus incentive
I was offered a specific bonus amount on top my hourly rate if I could complete a project by a specific deadline. I met the requirements for the bonus. It's time to invoice and I'm wondering if I ...
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What to do to boost user registration
I started planning a new web service. I started to write some effect maps to define primary goals that are basically related to growing numbers of:
site traffic
user registrations
user shopping ...
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Stock Option Plan for Contractors?
I'm starting my first company (software for Reputation Management) and will be contracting 3 guys; 2 full-time paid and 1 who is doing work pro bono. As it happens in the early stages of companies, ...
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What incentives can I give business customers to sell my product to their network?
I have treated my first few business customers of my software product very well. They are senior managers of medium sized companites. My problem is that I cannot get them to sell my product in their ...
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Which is better to incorporate Austin or Delaware?
We are planning to form a company for online e-commerce sale and would like to know which is better location - Austin (TX) or Delaware for the following:
Ease of formation (we are in India, and will ...
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How much in stock options should we offer new employees?
We're a software startup with annual revenue in the ballpark of half a million. We're completely bootstrapped, and have no current plans to take funding. We currently have 4 employees. We're ...
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What's the best way to give away $25 amazon gift vouchers?
I would like to give away $25 Amazon gift vouchers as a strategy to get people to use my bootstrapped startup.
What's the best way to give the vouchers away? I would like to give them to the first 10 ...
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How to give incentive to users to spread the word out?
I think one of the most important things, is to allow my users to share the information and get rewarded.
Which method would be better? Paying them Cash? or rewarding them with gifts that they can ...
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What are the differences of offering Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options to Employees?
I remember at one point a startup will switch from offering ISO (Incentive Stock Options) to offering Non-qualified Stock Options (NSO) to employees?
Can the startup decide which to offer, and what ...
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Incentive Stock Options (ISO Pool) - How much to earmark?
Based on your experiences, I'm wondering if any of you had any advice on the percentage can I expect to earmark for ISO pool when incorporating? 10%? 15%? 20%?
Thanks!
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Reward customers for bugs reports?
Do you reward your users when they contribute to the product (for example - with detailed bug reports)?
I'm wondering if we should give them a couple of weeks of free service, or maybe a discount ...
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Does using DISQUS make people comment more?
I am feeling the effect of seeing DISQUS on certain blogs in that it makes me more likely to comment. Is this true for others here? Does any blog/site owner have data on increased comment counts after ...
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Incentives for users in a community?
I'd like to brainstorm with some others on what you think are options for "incentivising" users to use a site in a community. eg. things like user retention, and increasing the odds that people are ...
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To be a great software company, you hire the best developers… how?
Joel Spolsky is always writing about how companies should treat and offer the best to their developers in order to be able to get the best of them... as a startup, when time comes and you do need to ...
