Launching website while in H1B visa
I have been moonlighting on a web-based idea for the last several months and now in a stage to launch public beta. I am in H1B visa and my green card is…
Would you partner with a competitor?
So we are getting ready to launch our product and I have this crazy idea. I want to partner with a company that I’m trying to put out of business 🙂…
I know that I’m worth more than my equity offer. I want to stay, but is this a sign that I should leave?
We are a growing company and I have been our strongest salesperson by far. I own our biggest account and am responsible for about half of our business…
Trying to get this product off the ground, should I call it quits?
My product is a plugin for blogs/online newspapers that helps engage readers better. My target audience is local newspapers, and company blogs running…
When is it safe to share your idea?
I once heard “ideas are cheap – execution is the differentiator”. That said, it’s a little scary going out there and sharing your startup idea with a…
Borrowing another sites TOS & Privacy Policy – is it illegal?
We’re tight on money & I’d like to use the TOS & Privacy Policy from another similar type of site for our needs to keep costs down. Is this illegal? There…
What’s a neutral way to explain hiatus in your startup’s development?
Say there was a static gap of ~1 year after soft launch where nothing happened. Especially in case where it was caused by personal issue that you do not…
Is Founder’s Coop accelerator/fund (Seattle) any good?
Tell me about your first profitable startup
How did you find your initial customers and get them to convert? What was it like beta testing? How did you get them to pay? How many customers did you…
How do you find leads for your startup?
I've been trying web scraping, asking friends/family, and finding some leads on Twitter. How else have you guys been going about doing it?
Ever have unrealistic standards?
My startup is doing great. We just launched and it’s running fabulously and were about to make some real money… But I’m already 22 years old and I’m about…
How should you compensate a resigning co-founder that has done strong pre-launch work?
I just read that management consultants are twice as likely to get funding than techies. Goes against the public view. How many of you are mgmt consultants and how did your financing go?
Here is an article with statistics from a study conducted together with Bloomberg:…
Are we tired of the VC blogspam yet?
Every half baked angel/VC is now blogging and newlettering, which is leading to an overload in my newsfeed! Even without subscribing to an individual…
How do you resign as a co-founder?
What is the best way to resign as a co-founder?
How do you feel about the “Ask an Expert” series on SA?
We've received feedback that posting all the expert Q&A's in the main feed felt spammy, so we restricted them to a separate feed. But, this is still a…
How do you afford tools for your startup?
I’m at school right now and really want to use tools like Hubspot, Salesforce and Hootsuite, but can’t afford it. I want to grab a one month trial but…
Anyone worked with Wasabi Ventures Academy?
Seems weirdly structured – as an incubator/accelerator and also a VC firm? What are the partners like? Does their staff actually do operational work with…
Anyone been founded by Kima15?
Wondering how their (kima15.com) whole premise of funding selected startups $150k for 15% equity in 15 days has worked out for founders. 2 weeks…
What are the pitfalls to paying in equity early on?
Because we’re cash starved, but well-connected, we’re paying some early developers in equity, without vesting. We prorated a standard equity allocation…
Do We Take Investment from Outside the US?
This is our third year in business. We were small but profitable in Year 2, and now that we’ve figured out how to make money, we are ready to accelerate…
What is the equivalent of HackerNews for marketers?
HackerNews is a mixed audience (aspiring and current startup people, corporate workers, angels/vcs, etc) with an entrepreneurial hacker slant. I’ve been…
What’s the value of an accelerator if you already have product+users+revenue?
It seems like accelerators are designed to help 22-year-olds build a prototype while living off ramen for 3-4 months. If you’re more experienced and have…
Is hiring remote interns a good idea?
What about security around access to the company site, work given, etc. Although it seems the same issues prevail even with interns in your office,…
Scared Sh**less. How do you deal?
This is my second startup, the first made a little bit of profit but my co-founder and I are going after something much bigger and I am honestly scared…
I’m leaving my Startup, should I take some money?
I’ve been working on a Startup for a few years with 2 co-founders. We did somewhat well, and by paying ourselves extremely low salaries, we have amassed…
How do we nurture a new contact?
We reached out to a potential advisor, after a productive Skype chat it was clear he understood the product, the team and how he could help us. He…
Which VC’s would care?
Have profitable business, my second time around. Millennial market, scalable, long experience in business, developed and sold similar business 2000-2007,…
Why does YC practice age discrimination via its application form?
It is an accepted norm in professional life not to ask people their age, especially during times like interview process. Govt EEOC also states that age…
Drop deadweight founder and start again on our own?
Other technical cofounder and I feel that third guy, non-technical, is not pulling his weight at all, doing bare minimum, not expanding his limited domain…