S Corp or LLC?
I am a young entrepreneur in Georgia and I haven’t tried to make any sales on my e-commerce website (Complete and everything works) since I am worried…
The biggest barrier to entrepreneurial comfort
I’m stuck. I started a business while I was still studying, got the diploma and pushed as hard as possible to make it a success. After 2 years of effort,…
The company I cofounded just got acquired and everyone is happy … except me.
I’m absolutely freaked out by the prospect of going on vacation for 3 months, don’t want the ‘earn out’ (the acquiring company has already told us we’d…
I’m a broke startup impostor
On the surface it looks like I have my shit together — semi successful business, past startup success, business education and connections from one of the…
How much do you charge for a pilot with large enterprise companies?
We are in work safety space – our software increases focus so people have fewer accidents – and our potential clients are large enterprises who have the…
AppSumo is a ripoff
Got an email today advertising “one of our best deals”. $25 for a lifetime usage of the ShareAsImage service – A tool to create quotes on nice backgrounds…
Airbnb drop your faux benevolent attitude already
Got another “Support home sharing today” email from Airbnb. Yes, I’ve used Airbnb. In fact I enjoyed it. But Airbnb is NOT about sharing. Sharing means…
Can an ex-startup founder ever be a happy employee?
Sold my last startup to an interested party due to feeling stressed/burnt out as a solo founder. Got a job at another startup thinking it’d be great. A…
Bound by a non-compete, and offers to work at a competitor startup
I recently had to layoff everyone on my consumer SaaS travel metasearch startup because we ran out of funds to continue as a team of 3 (2 other engineers,…
Secret’s investors should be fired for gambling away their fund’s money.
So with a “heavy heart” Secret’s founder David Byttow decided to “return” their investors money rather than attempt a pivot. Sounds like a noble move,…
How to find a mentor who is actually willing to help you?
I mean how do you actually find a mentor who is willing to commit to you. I have had many “mentors”, but none of them actually focused on guiding me, they…
I just walked out of my startup because of irreconcilable differences, but I am depressed.
I was part of a very exciting and fast growing startup. The co-founders had been doing this for about 6 months before they met me. When I came on board,…
Sole Founder and Bootstrapping – Ashamed to say it?
First of all, I would like to thank the creators of this platform, it is really great to see you are not alone struggling with a startup, in a world where…
What Selling Drugs Taught Me About Business — Part 2
So it was late, I had just smoked a joint and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to tell the world about my adventures in life and…
What Selling Drugs Taught Me About Business
I moved out at 15. In order to work I could not attend school anymore. When dropping out I was told by my peers that my choices would lead to a career at…
Acqui-hires is an aberration that will go away once the bubble bursts.
So the Duke Law Journal actually wrote a research paper on acquihiring: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2040924 The summary:…
Being an Older Woman creating a Start-Up
I’m 54 years old. And a woman. Running a tech start-up. Let me repeat that. OK, maybe not. I think you get the idea. In an industry where everyone expects…
Where do I start?
As a co-founder of a startup, I struggle with this question at least a couple of times a week. Every so often as the technical cofounder, I feel…
Lots of responsibilities but lots of dreams…
I have an MVP app that needs more development before I really can market it. My beta group research was highly positive. I’m out of money – been paying…
Do you think this will get funded?
I created a social network over a year ago. The traffic has grown since just from my SEO work. It’s now getting 15,000 daily visitors on the site and 200+…
Startup Studios & Unearned Equity
I’m an early employee of a company that was started out of a popular startup studio. Me and my team work incredibly hard getting our company off of the…
Is this a good strategy to have?
I’m working on a website- a tech blog. I don’t do ads because I personally hate them. I’m active on social media and am trying to do all the right things…
Are you a Bay-area founder with depression or anxiety?
SA cofounder, Dana, here. Patrick Hoge, a journalist with the San Francisco Business Times is looking to speak with founders (on or off the record) from…
Thought I Was Doing Everything Right… But I Did The Most Important Thing Wrong
Do people want your planning to build? That is the first question you have to answer. Talk to the market you’re targetting. Alot. I didn’t, even though I…
I don’t know where to go from here …
I should start out with the fact that I am 17 and a wanna-be entrepreneur, that’s what I’ve been told. I dropped out of school at 16 since I hated it. I…
Can I make a living being a black male in tech?
I feel like that it is a burgeoning field. I see a lot of black people on tech panels who never built a product or code, who are racking up consulting…
If you negotiate they pull your offer
Beware. Venture Backed High Profile Company lowballed me after a very strange, hurried rushed job process where I was told the position paid 20k more–and…
Newbie Founder/Entrepreneur trying to find his way
I’m a newbie to this game, (call me ‘fresh meat’)…15 years ago, I rolled the dice and decided to go into the domain business. At the time, I was working…
Vice President, Boss, Manager. Start-up founder?
Let me start by giving you a brief history. I’m a 34 year old female living in the US. I am an employee of a small finance company. I don’t hate my job.…
I don’t know how long I can go on like this …
When I was 15 I built my first website, it was terrible but it had about 80 users and it made money. Not serious money, but more money than I had ever…