Do-Gooder Needs Help With Amusing Slackronym! [more inside]
posted by Lipstick Thespian on Nov 1, 2009 - 21 answers

So a little while back, I bought a big old brick house in Richmond, Indiana (for $8000). It's way more house than I need, and there are lots of other fantastic brick houses here, just no economic reason to buy them. Why shouldn't I give free room and board and bandwidth in return for equity in a tech startup? (See also HNN's comment threads.) [more inside]
posted by Michael Roberts on Oct 12, 2009 - 19 answers

Where might I find evidence that there was a surge of wiki startups circa 2005, which has since tapered off? [more inside]
posted by teracloth on May 13, 2009 - 3 answers

I have some interest in getting a little startup going. I'm thinking through who could help, and some of the people on my list are still at my former employer. I worked there for quite some time, and would like to ask a couple of folks there if they want to commit some off-hours to this as a side project. Problem is: will their employer (my former employer) have any claim on what we create - since they still work there? I'm thinking of the whole anything-you-invent-while-working-here clause we all sign when we get a new job. It's not a competitive idea, necessarily, though it is something the aforementioned company should do themselves and might even be interested in buying someday. Would I spoil things by involving folks who still work there? This is in California.
posted by anonymous on Aug 29, 2008 - 14 answers

TechHistoryFilter: Can The Hive Mind name any instances of technology or net-based products that began life as a "white label" business service solution before being rolled out as a consumer-facing service? [more inside]
posted by mrkinla on May 20, 2008 - 9 answers

How much ROI would a VC be looking for in a late-stage biotechnology startup? [more inside]
posted by alms on May 16, 2008 - 4 answers

I've been playing with a promising idea for a website for a while, and I feel I'm ready to get things moving. I've got a fairly clear idea of what I want, who would use it, and why it would take off. Income would be ad-generated, in an area where I believe prospects are good. The problem is, there's no out-of-the-box software that does what I need it to do, and programming the site is beyond my capabilities. [more inside]
posted by muckster on Feb 29, 2008 - 13 answers

Some former co-workers have asked me if I'm interested in leaving my current position (where they used to work as well) to join them at their startup. Does this burn bridges at the old job? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 27, 2008 - 14 answers

What's the startup community like in Korea and Japan? I'm sorta wondering how I can find out how many small businesses there are (and what kind of moolah funds them) in Korea and Japan.. but just the ones that are sorta "Web2.0" or have a mostly online business. Any ideas? Are there government resources that track private companies and categorize them that way? Thanks in advance!
posted by mhh5 on Jan 22, 2008 - 12 answers

Please help me find this biz book. Topic: small biz startups. Author: a serial entrepeneur who claims to have started ~20 companies, none of which failed. Date: About 2-3 years ago. (I'm basically interested in any authors who have a track record of multiple successful small biz starts.)
posted by Moistener on Jan 1, 2007 - 3 answers

I'm looking for names of prominent technology companies that were founded or took their first round of VC investment in 2002, during the post-bubble nadir. [more inside]
posted by nyterrant on Jul 6, 2006 - 4 answers

If you thought you had a great business idea, but it was too expensive to just go for it on your own, how would you go about getting venture capital funding (in England)? Or would you do something completely different?
posted by reklaw on Jul 16, 2004 - 4 answers