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Selling products online in the US from India
My Business is to have an to sell products online (online store). My business name has just been approved and I have also purchased the company desired domain. I am in the process of taking my first ...
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1answer
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Interpretation of phrase “X, namely Y” in trademark?
I have a question regarding how a certain aspect of trademarks should be interpreted in the general sense, but I'll provide some of the specifics of my situation as a concrete example.
The General ...
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4answers
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What is a lean startup and why should I go this route?
I'm considering a startup that starts with a minimum viable product. Despite what I've read, the lean startup feels contra-effective.
My question to the community is, what exactly defines a 'lean ...
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1answer
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Royalties as a means for acknowledging founders
I am in the process of establishing a business with four partners. Initially the shares were going to be split between the four partners but now it is clear that the majority of the work will be done ...
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1answer
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How to Research and Determine Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM)
I'm working on the executive summary for my website idea and need to figure out the total market capitalization for the this industry.
For example, if all the yearly advertising (and other) revenue ...
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Beautiful front-end web design now or later?
So now the business logic, back-end development, are all done. The website is built with Twitter Bootstrap, look and feel are basic, but not top notch. Should I spend more time designing/beautifying ...
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7answers
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Help with my company name. What is the difference between 'technology' and 'technologies'?
I am setting up my new startup company. I noticed some company named XXXX technology Inc. and some other named themselves XXXXX technologies Inc. .
I would like to name my startup MyCoolName ...
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4answers
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How to acquire customers which are small businesses via internet?
We are building a service to help small businesses manage data they have in the cloud. We got to the point where we are profitable, but our growth is anemic.
Our problem is that somehow a majority of ...
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2answers
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How to go about getting a controlling vote on decision making?
I am starting a business with my partner. The company does marketing related services. Initially, it was assumed that the company is going to be 50/50 between the both of us.
However, recently I was ...
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1answer
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Public v. Private Limited Partnership in Illinois
I'm contemplating starting a LP in Illinois where I will be the general partner. I will seek to sell "units" in the LP to friends and family. The Starting Your Business in Illinois document says ...
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BizSpark - is it worthwhile to persevere with your application?
I'm a bit tired and frustrated with my BizSpark application. I've been rejected twice. The first time, I didn't have a company E-Mail and URL. The second time, I provided a proper company E-Mail and ...
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2answers
118 views
How to direct marketing initiatives for a Start up
We are a location based social network connecting like minded people. We are ready with our product and want to select a city to start marketing. Basic costs touch upto $5k a month just for marketing. ...
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3answers
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The Road not Taken … where's the restart button?
If failed at a business startup, what does it take to have another go?
Precis: Left a safe academic job to start up my own services company ... just in time for the Global Financial Crisis. So now ...
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1answer
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How and how much does it cost to I register my startup logo (International)
This may sound as a duplicate of other questions, but the enphasis is International.
I've found it neccesary to have a logo at the stage of looking for VC's, among other things. But currently I do ...
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1answer
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Is it bad to juggle small projects from time to time?
Coming up with ideas for entrepreneurs isn't really a problem. Execution on the other hand, as I have experienced, is by far the hardest thing to keep on top with, especially if you have to keep your ...
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2answers
261 views
How to do marketing research in Finance related software?
I am a software developer in Canada. 2 years ago, a close friend referred me a business owner who is running Futures trading firm(12+ employees) in Chicago. He need some system to help them manage ...
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1answer
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Operational email policy
We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit.
We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for example: ...
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Mold Makers and Offshore Manufacturing [closed]
I need an injection mold made for my product. I'm also going to need someone to manufacture my product. Where can I get a high level overview of all the offshore companies that offer injection molding ...
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Where to find a template for a general-purpose Independent Contractor Agreement?
We want to hire some freelancers in the US, Germany, Russia and Japan.
The book "The Business of iPhone App Development" from Apress references an Imdependent Contractor Agreement template. The goal ...
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1answer
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Customer discovery and validation in B2B
I have a very immature idea of a B2B startup, and I want to gather some feedback on it.
Assuming, that "future customers" are business people, what is the best way to communicate with them on early ...
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Likely to take a new move [closed]
Myself a newbie, Graduate in electronics likely to enter into software field seeks help from professionals....
Am little bit confused about choosing a technology to get started up...
Here comes my ...
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2answers
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What happens when a corporation(small restaurant) declare bankruptcy?(Canada)
This corporation is a small restaurant in Canada.
If there are debts need to be paid to the other companies and to the government, what is the liability of the major share holders and people who are ...
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7answers
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New Business Idea - Who owns it?
I was looking for freelance work and met with a lawyer who had some work for me. The lawyer asked if I could build a product for him. I told the lawyer I can build the product and will charge him a ...
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Markup material cost on startup
I was in a debate recently with someone on how we should go about pricing out our material costs to clients and we couldn't decide on what is the proper way in going about doing this.
Example:
If a ...
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1answer
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How Long is A Sidekick Obligated to Be Your Partner? [closed]
Thanks for your help guys. I'm trying to understand the terms of "employment" for a startup side kick.
Basically, I've got a good idea for a startup. There's a kid who's going to Yale who wants to ...
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2answers
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Should I use WebsiteSpark or BizSpark with my startup?
I am starting up a new company with 3 others which is going to be a software/web company. I have already started on writing the software in C# 4.0, as I have a VS 2010 license, but my other partners ...
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2answers
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Does BizSpark preclude you from accepting funding elsewhere?
I am going to embark very soon on a software venture (have been a consultant and employee up until now).
I see advantages in signing up for Microsoft's BizSpark.
However, I wonder if doing so would ...
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1answer
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StreamServe Consulting copyright issues with name
We are planing to start a StreamServe consulting firm in Singapore. I would like to know, is it legal to use StreamServe in the website we are planing to launch for this consulting work.
I haven't ...
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2answers
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Approached About Partnership
I am a software developer and for the past 4-5 years I've worked part-time on an application related to fantasy sports. I enjoy toying with the marketing side of things but I focus mainly on writing ...
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Free / open source email copytexts for Startups? [closed]
Writing good copy is critical to the success of any online business; customers judge operations by subtle hints of wording, phrases, and design.
Places like eg. copyhackers provide an awesome ...
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1answer
475 views
Writing a Terms of Service for my iPhone app that uses Google Analytics
I'm finding a resource for writing a TOC for my app that uses Google Analytics to analyze content traffic.
I don't hire a lawyer and just plan to copy from someone else.
Could you please point out ...
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1answer
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Arizona LLC with managers from California
My client who is domiciled in California formed an LLC in Arizona - he is also a member manager. The business is in Arizona, and all transactions are in Arizona. I know since the member manager is ...
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Can I incorporate my internet business in California/Delaware without a “physical address”?
I am planning a startup in internet space and I live in California. I do not wish to use my home address as the place-of-business (physical) address in the incorporation documents due to concerns ...
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Initial Capital Contribution
Is a partnership made official when the operating agreement is signed or after all partners make the required initial capital contribution as outlined in the operating agreement?
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Fairly Sharing Proprietorship of Software Product
I am currently working as a Software Developer with a company. As well, I provide solutions also to some clients part time. Recently I got an inquiry for a software product. I believe that the product ...
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Investing in startups online
I've seen plenty of websites that utilize philanthropic crowd-funding, but I'm unable to find any websites that allow people to purchase equity online. Are there any? If not, for what reason?
Note: ...
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Start-up valuation
When you are dealing with potential investors, they will be able to do valuation, I hope, but again, they are looking after their own interests. I assume it is a good idea to have your own numbers in ...
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Being paid in equity. Can my poor credit rating negatively affect the business?
I'm a web developer, and I've been offered (in addition to cash) equity in the new business that will be based largely on the application I'm being hired to build.
As someone who has been scraping by ...
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Another company to managa activities of other company
I'm wondering if there is any limit of activities another company could carry out for my company? I have a limited company in the UK, live outside the UK, and would like another company or a ...
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1answer
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Impact Investment/Tax Questions
I want to take some of the revenue that I generate with the for-profit business I'm starting, and use it to provide start-up social enterprises that I think are interesting with some funding to help ...
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search crunchbase for companies which received over 1MM in funding?
I would like to get an insight into which are the most important startups at the moment. can I get a list of all crunchbase companies which received over a specific ammount in funding. I now ...
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International provisional patent application?
Our product is ready for manufacturing. i applied for a none-provisional application in my country. but i know this do not effect on other countries and also if i start selling product then other ...
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4answers
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Should I show pricing on a test landing page?
I put up a test landing page for a SAAS product/service that I think has potential. My goal is to test the market to see if there is enough interest to justify building out the product/service.
The ...
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1answer
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Whose property is the product?
I recently entered a government founded start-up that was planning a major switch in the product (after I entered we started doing a completely new product indeed). Each person in the project has a ...
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Equity distribution software SaaS spin-off
I have been working in a consulting agency for a couple of years. Besides my standard job responsibilities, I was accountable for the technology. Some years ago we developed a software, for internal ...
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Is summertime a good period to start online-marketing campaign for my SaaS? [closed]
We develop SaaS for B2B - project management for engineers.I ask this question because consider many people are out for holidays and being in summer relaxed mood.
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UK company expanding to US, sponsoring b visa
I work for a UK LTD company who wants to expand to the US. They're arranging the paperwork to start a US business entity, and we have a queue of US customers that means this business will be ...
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1answer
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New LLC - How do I estimate quarterly taxes if I'm not sure I'm going to make a profit by the end of the year
My wife and I are partner members in a newly created LLC. Weve made some money this quarter yet have made no distributions but we are uncertain of our future profits/loss for the year. This quarter ...
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Order fulfillment by a service other than Amazon? [closed]
My product will be produced by a 3rd party manufacturer, and I am not overly keen to rent my own warehouse/hire a staff for order fulfillment (at least until we begin to scale).
We will be selling ...
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Hiring Programmers and Code Storage
I have two freelancers working for me right now and I am using Freelancer.com where you simply send code back and forth by zipping it and using their proprietary messaging system which is clunky.
I ...
