Business model describes how an organization creates value. Examples of business models are Franchise, Freemium and Direct sales. Business model is described in detail and with examples on wikipedia.org .
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Advise on profit share for freelancing startup company
Three of us want to create a freelancing company and work via most popular freelancing sites nowadays. We've been working like this for 2 years and we need more people to help us.
I see many such ...
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I want to know bout the rules and law of advertisements on buildings in India (Mumbai)? [closed]
I want to know bout the rules and law of advertisements on buildings in India (Mumbai)?
I want to plunge into business of advertisement billboards on buildings.
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Business Structure for online start-up [closed]
Ok I have a question regarding how to register my start-up. I am planning to have a team of cofounders and staff from all over the word but im not sure which type of business to open Eg: CC , LLC etc? ...
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What's the recommended business model for an educational scientific simulator website?
I am seeking advice about the recommended business model for my educational website, which provides an electronics simulation web application only.
Currently, I have about 350 +/- 50 daily visitors, ...
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How do Royalty payments work?
I have been asked by another company to build them some software to operate some machinery.
The company sells this machinery to their own customers and wants to provide the software I write along ...
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Tax law benefits?
I am thinking about starting a small charity to help find and support the "untapped Genius" in everyday people or people that might otherwise just end up in a dead end job or unemployed. The concept ...
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Need business advice on growing SaaS business
Sorry for the long question, but I promise it's a good read as it includes a challenging topic on growing a bootstrapped business, which I imagine applies to many of you as well. I look forward to ...
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Compensation model for a joint venture
We're looking to enter a joint venture with another entity in order to collaborate on a large IT based project. The agreement is that the other entity will provide most of the human resources, whereas ...
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Business model to sell an innovative and complex enterprise SaaS application
Our Startup company developed a web application for Data Analysis in Marketing. It's a B2B product that is innovative and complex. Although the app is very simple to use, the elaboration of the ...
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International house ads publisher. Why not?
This is not really a question but a muse about what I'm thinking of a better way to monetize mobile traffic via house ads. Yes, I seek your opinions.
If I were to have a "worldwide" popular app at ...
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Has anyone tried the Cheapium Business Model?
There's lots of information about freemium, but I have just come across some information about what one guy is calling the Cheapium Business Model, and I would like to know if you have tried or are ...
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Premium features VS Donation gifts
We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization:
Premium model: Buy a Foo ...
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What is Duolingo's business model?
The start-up Duolingo, even though not advertised as a not-for-profit, is offering the learning service for it's customers for free.
This begs the question: How could Duolingo make money? Are their ...
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research resources for starting a sports team/franchise
I'm thinking of starting up a minor sports team in the world of e-sports and I'd like to model it after the more well-known models in hockey and football.
I've tried going to the official websites ...
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Startup Weekend Startup Ownership Dilemma [closed]
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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
So, we (me and my team) just won a local startup weekend event. Now, we obviously want to turn this ...
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How to simply estimate lifetime of a customer in early days of a startup
How do you estimate (simply) the lifetime of a customer in the early days of a SaaS startup?
E.g. in the first, say 3 months, you will have a number of customers who have already left and a number ...
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What's this business model/marketing style called?
What is the name of a business model where you offer a product for free to entice people to use your service? I'm not referring to freemium. I am more talking about how Google works. They offer ...
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how does an existing company roll in new revenue models into existing ones?
I've got a consulting business built around my personal skills and offerings. I've picked up a few sales people to help increase work volume (currently part-time outside of a day-job). The company ...
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A Co-Branded website?
Our start-up is not yet launched but has been proposed to make a co-branded website with a big player on the market, where both parties would be presented equally through a number of ads and links to ...
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sample business model canvas or tool
Hi I am looking for some sample business model canvas with proper details ?
Any link or image would be welcome
Any quick tool to build a model canvas would be also helpful.
cheers
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is this ad revenue model accurate?
I'm setting up an ad-supported website and trying to work through the numbers. I came across this article that gives a model. Being a newb at advertising, I've got quite a few questions:
For CPM and ...
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What additional revenue options is there for an ecommerce company other than headline margins?
For a large ecommerce company like Amazon.com, I know that they have additional income streams related to their ecommerce business(not talking about AWS or other such things), but income streams ...
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How did Twitter/Quora persuade investors as they didnt/dont have a business model?
I wonder, how did Quora persuaded their investors as they don't make revenue and even they don't have any revenue model as far as I know.
The question is same again for twitter ( I know they sell ...
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Is this really a good method of going about this…?
We're a 2 man startup. Im tech side, hes (business) side. I'm a full-time student, put in a good 20-30 hours per week (still!) while he says hes putting in around 10.. but its really closer to about 5 ...
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Where can I discuss web business revenue models?
Where can I discuss web business revenue models?
I want to discuss some web business revenue models with people interested in sharing their knowledge..
If this thread permits. I want to know the ...
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how to move from a once-off software payment to a subscription revenue model?
We have a fairly new product (v1.x) that is installable software, and which is charged as a once off payment with free upgrades to further 1.x upgrades. There is no 'annual maintenance' construct.
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Which websites successfully make money just from ads?
I'm wondering how many websites are actually successful at making money purely off ads. Clearly the search engines do, but apart from them can you point out specific sites which have successful ...
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Is the GitHub business model successful?
GitHub has an amazingly simple business model: free if you are public (open source), not free if you have stuff to keep private (closed source).
I'm thinking of applying the exact same business model ...
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Question About Findings Ones Epicenter
In the 37signals book rework they mention finding ones Epicenter, the one thing your business must have to survive.
They use the example of a hot dog stand and the guy needing at least the hot dog ...
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How usually companies pays out percentage for developers?
I would like to know roughly how the payments are done if the company was started by two developers and me, owner.
Let's say, I give them 10 % each, thats 20 % of the company's profit product. How ...
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How to protect my software?
I am looking forward to register business in UK (England), currently we are still in development of software but, next year we should be launching it live for the people. This is going to be a ...
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Monetization options - other than ads - for consumer SaaS
I started a consumer SaaS almost 2 months ago. It's a calories counter system. You log in, register your meals and the system tells you how many calories you ate and the type of those calories. You ...
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Is freemium still working?
We've heard from several formerly wildly successful software/webapp companies using the freemium business model that it is no longer working well. Does anyone have any validation to this? And if ...
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Any advice on coop model for tech startup
In retrospect of this question, I would like some advice on tech startups using a coop model (as a workers' coop). Advice on charter and finances mostly.
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Coop model in tech startup
Are there any success stories of coop startups in technology (namely software)? I don't mean like a coop store where customers are (or can be) members, but worker cooperative one where membership is ...
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What are the pros and cons of incubating a new startup within a successful existing company?
I have a well thought out idea for a new startup. The startup will be unrelated to my current small company that is doing quite well.
My basic options are to incubate the new startup within my ...
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What are the major risks that can influence a business?
I am starting an internet business I have enough traffic of my estimation and I am currently earning through to Google adsense program now I faced a question What are the major risks that can ...
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How you look at all variables of a business case and decide if it's 'worth it'?
Given a business case with even a modest 20-30 variables/dimensions on which one would base the case, how does anyone going over it decide whether it is 'worth it'?
I mean if looking at a business ...
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How do Google Trends and Correlate make money for Google?
I'm just curious, what the business model is for providing these data mining services for free to everyone?
http://www.google.com/trends
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/
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Dolphin browser business model
Recently I read that Dolphin browser developers got an A round investment. This news made me think: what is the dolphin browser business model?
I am sorry if this question seems simple, however I ...
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What's In a Business Plan and Do I Really Need One
Business plans cause a lot of anxiety for the new entrepreneur. I think it stems from the fact that they are a lot of work and putting one together, especially if you have never done one, is quantum ...
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Who are the largest Facebook advertisers?
I don't want to be so direct here, but
In this article does anyone have a clue about which company/companies could it be talking about when it says: I’m not going to out you, but you know who you ...
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What's the business model on which Google books is based?
What's this business model called in which links are provided to online sellers of a particular thing like Google books provides links to amazon,etc. ?
PS: If possible please also add link(s) where ...
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How should I spend my limited financial capability to gain momentum in my startup?
I am a start up, with no office. fairly new to Canada with no financial records. No website (only Domain name). Working from a rented room.
I registered my company. Imported a small stock that is ...
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How to scale a startup?
We build a profitable startup In 2 years without any outside investment we are building enterprise software(and producing hardware) for Customer Service Improvement in different ...
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Building a business off of data
I have a collection of tools that collect data. I have heard of businesses selling data. I would like to be able to do something like this. However, I have no idea what a business model around data ...
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Charging for ads based on time they run for?
I was wondering if there is such a thing as "Pay Per Date Run"? - as opposed to Pay Per Click or Pay Per Impression. For example: paying for an ad to run on week 31 - August 1st to August 7th for x ...
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what should be the business plan for a retail warehouse
I am looking for help in writing the business plan for a retail warehouse store in line with Costco or Uncle Sam's club. Will appreciate any help please.
Sriram
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How to earn incentive on my website?
I have a website named Digital Flicks and its a website on most of the Web technology updates. Now the problem I have is that I want to monetize the website soon. I want to know some Ad Publishing ...
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How much do high-end financial software consultancy firms (like lab49) charge per hour?
How much do high-end financial consultancy firms (like lab49) charge per hour for a c# developer in London? In GBP please.
Obviously the consultancy has to paid the developer + cover their overheads ...
