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Is SaaS really a profitable market now (compared to 2005)?

When you consider the following: 20 USD monthly fee x 12 months = 240 USD per user / yr. So, 1,000 paying customers would be needed to attain 240,000 USD revenue At a conversion rate of 10% one ...
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Product Positioning-Large or Small customer focus

We are a software startup and trying to solve a unique problem, which is applicable for both small and large organizations. Is there any recommendation in positioning the product for smaller or large ...
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247 views

What is/was the elevator pitch of Facebook?

An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a product, service, or organization and its value proposition. What was the elevator pitch of Facebook when it started? ...
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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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184 views

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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170 views

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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169 views

Business model: Sell component or complete solution?

I've working for a product (component) that need to integrated with other software (market: other software developers) for almost a year, to be honest selling this component is not easy, so as a ...
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299 views

Pivoting problem for a food subscription startup

I launched my website which sells healthy snack subscriptions about two months ago. We provide healthy snack alternatives to white collars. That arent available other than our site We sell nutrition ...
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71 views

Can VC be the customer?

I am working hard with lots of start-up clients on their business models. One of the critical issues that we keep coming back to is "who is the customer." In my model the customer is the person who ...
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554 views

Is there any business model for Chrome or Firefox addons?

I want develop pretty advanced add-on for Chrome (and later for Firefox). I plan to sell it. And i am sure users will pay. But i have some apprehensions. There no add-ons in chrome or firefox add-ons ...
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408 views

How to better explain my business?

everyone. I am a web developer/artist living in Tampa, FL. I have been working on a website for about 3 years now, and the amount of functionality on it is amazing. I have noticed similar websites ...
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171 views

Freemium :: model?

All With the freemium model. Should we launch the FREE offerings first, then BUILD and sell the premium stuff, or have at least one premium service available before lauch?