If they aren't willing to provide transparency and full disclosure - allowing you to complete your due diligence - you might be better off to move on. In other words - based on their elusive behavior and lack of willingness to cooperate - the egg you are looking to crack is likely a rotten one. ...
If you have zero resources, this is exactly how I would proceed. Especially without technical skills. 1.) Go to tomodo.com 2.) Skin the growthhacker.tv site. with your own graphics. 3.) Manually reach out to people on letslunch.com who are developers and show them mockups of your site that yo...
Hello - I work as an in-house transactional attorney for a US-based website with 20 million monthly unique visitors around the world, and I've worked on several licensing and ad-rep deals for several countries in Europe, South America, Australia, etc. There are several ways to protect yourself,...
http://makersrow.com - this is probably your best bet. I wouldn't use a website though. I'd talk to entrepreneurs and creators of high tech textiles in the USA. Look specifically at http://titintech.com and Klymit jacket. Reach out to those founders and learn as much as possible. Both of th...
I've been impressed with http://subscriptiongenius.com. Best of luck to you with this endeavor!
No. In the decade plus I've been doing e-mail marketing this has never been an issue. Also, this on the sales page is a huge turn off: "Pick the most expensive plan you can."
If you are early stage then you need two things: an accountant and accounting software. When it comes to finding an accountant, find someone who understands your area of business. Most firms will meet once or twice to get a feel for your needs. In my experience, good accountants will tell you ou...
I've got experience in this actually, would love to help you figure it out.
Most Software as a service vendors generally don't book annual deals except in highly specialized cases. Most customers prefer to be able to cancel/change anytime they choose. Also, deals done "offline" end up actually often being more trouble than they are worth to administrate especially for ...
Thanks for asking this question, its a good one with little answers out there. Having been a phantom equity partner in a start-up myself, I would say phantom equity didn't give me the push to be all in as much as real equity would have. I never felt like a true partner. Reason being, the owner wa...