Business model describes how an organization creates value.
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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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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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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.
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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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Is it illegal for a person to use Zynga Poker if gambling is prohibited in his state/country?
I ask because I am planning a Start up where I intend to charge users to use my website. They can buy credit and gamble with each other. I understand players will not be exchanging money; so its not ...
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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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turning open source software into a consulting business?
just some general and specific questions about running a business which uses open source software and sells training, services, and other value added solutions utilizing the open source asset(s) ...
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Freemium in user generated content/social service?
Could freemium be a good model of earning profit from user generated content services?
Let's take same hard example - www.trapster.com. It's a mobile phone application for exchanging information ...
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Business Model : Paid Crowdsource? [closed]
I plan to setup a paid crowdsource business model. For which we pay anyone involved in content creation, with a standard of course. What should I make into considerations or cautious on using the ...
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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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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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Is the traditional 'selling (closed source) software licenses' model still a viable business model?
I have developed a library that I would like to license to customers in the traditional way: users are paying for a license for a closed source library which allows them to use the library for a ...
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What sort of business type is a video game company? Manufacturing?
I am a college student and I am supposed to be creating a business plan for a school project. I decided to create a faux video game company in order to satisfy the criteria of the project, but I've ...
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How can I combine asking questions on the Internet with money making?
My biggest hobby/interest is to ask questions on the Internet. I have to admit this hobby brings me a lot. I feel I am an innate asker.I'm asking questions on the Internet always every day. I have ...
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What is Posterous' business model?
I've started using Posterous a few days ago for my personal blog and was wondering what was their plan to monetize their service. They don't advertise on their hosted blogs and do not offer a premium, ...
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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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How to prevent misuse of my advertising strategy by my competitor?
How to prevent misuse of my advertising strategy by my competitor?
I want to run an offer with an unique strategy, I however, feel that someone will misuse my strategy and would come with my ...
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Business model for a GPLed software product
I have a working prototype of a Mercurial repository browser/management tool for Windows and I'm thinking in creating a potential business out of it.
While developing this, I looked a lot inside ...
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Using Dubai as a tax haven - US nationals
My friend approached me with a business idea of selling a service to allow US business owners to incorporate in Dubai in order to avoid taxes. She resides in Dubai and owns a business there, and she ...
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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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Why isn't there a culture of paying for software frameworks?
Note: Cross-posted at programmers.stackexchange.com
One of the side effects of the recent trend of "Lean" startups, and the app store era, is that consumers are more acclimatised to paying small ...
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Revenue Multiples for Tech Startups
Does anyone have an idea of what a revenue multiple for a tech startup with a transactional business model would be?
I know it would be highly variable, but any resources, thoughts or known multiples ...
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Company in another state
I have a company in Georgia that is a corporation. I want to form another corporation in Michigan, but I want it to be under the corporate company in Georgia. The names will be slightly different. My ...
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Guidelines on how to test an idea for profitability before implementing?
Surely you've heard of Ramit Sethi (this guy: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ ). In one of his courses, he teaches how to model an idea and test it for profitability before implementing it. ...
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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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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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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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Business model for a service
We are about to launch a new service that you embed in a website or Facebook.
We consider using the following to get various source of income.
1 - Ad's for free (package one)
2 - Remove ad's for 1 ...
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How to sell yourself to investors?
This is a question about methodology for newcomers in the business of lauching firms.
I propose that we list all the things that must be done in order to present a good proposal for potential ...
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How to integrate/combine the process of writing a book with making money? [closed]
I want to write a book. But you know, writing a book requires a long time and I have no idea whether or not my book will sell out after it is written out. I want to make money, to have my own ...
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Freemium :: model?
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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Business Models for High-Price Mobile Apps
What business models exist for mobile applications beyond the AppStores that are run by the platform owner (Apple, Google)?
The standard business model seems to be low priced apps in 3 segments ...
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How to bootstrap a portal?
I want to start a property portal but I dont have huge ad budget to get traffic for listing then how do I get my first listing on the portal?
If people come on my property portal through ads or any ...
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Preparing for my international trade business. Didn't make any big inroad during the past 3 weeks [closed]
I quitted my job and started to preparing for my international trade business at the beginning of this month. But now almost one month passed, I have not gotten things into shape. I have not make a ...
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if Twitter charged for customizing your profile, would you pay for it?
It seems to me that people care enough about it to pay for it.(just search "my background")
and personally, given the right price, I would.
I'm asking this because I want to know when do people pay ...
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Any areas or software missing from the “freelancer” suite?
There are certain aspects of what I like to call the "Freelancer suite," basically tools that are designed specifically with the freelancer or small web team in mind. They basically are: time ...
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Does Monthly Curation Subscription work on Crowdfunding Platform?
Currently, I launched a monthly discovery business; I have yet to find another monthly discovery business started off on crowd-funding. We launched roughly 2 days ago (marketing on Facebook right ...
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Which partnership participation model use to focus on validation?
I want to begin a startup with keeping investment as low as possible to focus on multiple validation steps and survive as long as posible too in early steps. I know that profits will decrease in new ...
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Entrepreneur In-Waiting, valuing a start up business
After Years of having great business ideas and insight into the betting industry I have decided to bite the bullet and go ahead and start up my own business E-Commerce Business.
I have a number of ...
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How does a startup with a 2-sided business model succeed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you solve the “chicken-and-the-egg” problem?
Hi I'm creating a hiring market place. I need both sides to be active on the website or else my startup will fail. ...
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Startup Weekend Startup Ownership Dilemma [duplicate]
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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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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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Coop model in tech startup [closed]
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 ...
