A business (an enterprise or a firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods and/or services to consumers or other enterprises.
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I have a great Idea for a Startup, a Web App Business, How and Where to start?
I have a great idea for a web app in personal finance niche. It's a B2C. I have brainstormed and did some research. I made some specs and wrote the idea explaining every functionality. There is ...
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How complete should my business plan be before I approach investors?
I know there are a number of business plan questions already, but my question applies to a specific aspect of the process.
As my partners and I are researching and developing our plan, I've been ...
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Is there a proven way to attract users to a site besides the usual suspects we all know?
Aside from Adwords, Link Building, blogging, what are some other ways to attract and retain a loyal user base??
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Under what circumstances does it make sense to create another business?
If I have a consulting business, does it make sense to start another business (new legal entity) if I want to develop and sell a product? What if I have business selling B2B but want to start selling ...
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Is there a company that you can turn over your web site and let it run the biz for you and split the profit?
We spent quite a bit of money and time building a great IT career Site.
In the meantime, another opportunity that's more lucrative with less competition came up.
So we are looking to have the Career ...
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Won't an operational manual incur many competitors?
I read the book*The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It*. It is said that we should treat a business as a system, as a money-making machine. We should have ...
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How do I find a reliable Chinese supplier to manufacture electronic circuits for my product?
I have designed a prototype of my idea which includes simple electronic circuits. I would like to manufacture it in China. (yes ... because of the money)
I would like to know how it is to find a ...
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best plan on how to open a new optical buisness?
My wife is an optometrist of ten years and is ready to stop working for someone else and start her own establishment.
She is very well liked by all her patients and since moving from NY to NJ last ...
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Creating a Business for Side Programming
I'm an Android developer that has made money over some of the apps I've created in the past year. I have no corporate filing so I am currently considered a sole proprietor in the state of Florida. I ...
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What do you think about working only 4 days?
Our startup is getting bigger and I'm thinking about decreasing our weekdays to 4. I always wanted this for myself and now I thought I can give it a try in my own company.
We are fairly small, about ...
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Where to start business. I am planning to move countries - can my business when started relocate easily?
I currently live in South Africa, but I am an Australian citizen. I am planning to relocate to the UK for 2 years and then Ireland indefinitely. I am building an online business to market a product ...
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Cloud based customer support service
If I was to build a free hosted customer support service, would anyone want to use it?
i.e Community powered customer support platform (post public), with company help desk ticket support (post ...
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How to find customers (or early adopters)
I read a blog post that said before you start developing your product, you should find at least 10 people who are willing to pay for the product. This seems like good sense to me and I plan to follow ...
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Advice for a young startup
I'm a first-time entrepreneur and I've come across a few problems and solved them. I'm dealing with a certain couple of problems now that I'm not sure how to solve. Before I ask my questions, let me ...
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Affordable financial data for commercial use
Does anyone know where we can get affordable financial data? eg: ticker symbols, realtime quotes...
I know we could probably mine Yahoo Finance, but the data needs to be licensed for commercial use.
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What's the best sales book you've ever read? [closed]
Any recommendation? Is sale a process to deliver comfort which is declared in the book "E-myth revisited"?
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New Startup - How to outsource everything without losing control
I run one technology startup now that takes up most/all of my time.
I have another idea for a technology startup and wanted to outsource everything either through contract workers or salaried ...
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VCs and vertical markets
I'm noticing a trend where VCs try to stay away from vertical markets. Is it true or is it my skewed experienced?
How does one go about finding potential investors for a vertical market business?
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What is a good, widely used business 101 textbook?
What is a good Business 101 textbook that I, a technical founder, can use to give myself a crash course in business. I'm not looking for "Business for Dummies" or "Start Your Business in 24 Days" ...
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How do you keep yourself and employees from goofing off?
I have noticed that for the past few months, I have been wasting a lot of time on needless things. How do you keep yourself focused in your business?
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How sites like formspring can earn money
I want to make a new site like formspring , but different idea . I didn't see any Ads or any advertising methods in these site . How they can they earn money from the site .
What's the best ...
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Ideation, build a business, live abroad, improve the Japanese language. How to combine three goals into one?
I am a Chinese guy with a bachelor's degree, unmarried. I want to go abroad to live in US, Japan and France for some years. In the meantime I want to build my own business. I don't want to work for ...
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What's the best business book you have ever read? [closed]
I need inspirational and pragmatic business books.
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How did you come up with your business idea?
For those of you who have successful businesses, how did you come up with your business idea?
I'm trying to think of a business idea but none of the ideas I've come up with so far (currently about ...
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How to find a business partner
Does anyone have any general advice on finding a business partner? I want to find a like-minded person to start a business with. I'm done with school, I don't know a lot of people, and I don't live in ...
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How to get started in business
With everything I've ever learned, I've had to learn to walk before I could run. Examples:
Skiing: I had to be able to go down the bunny hill before I could do a black diamond.
Computer programming: ...
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Does “marketplace” business have a bad rep?
I noticed that talking to people about so called "marketplace" business (bringing together different groups with complementing needs) ideas gets a lot of people excited, but it seem to quickly turn ...
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In need of strategic advice
Some days I feel that I need someone experienced to have a top-level discussion of my next business steps. I don't necessarily feel that approaching investors is the right move for that -- I'm not ...
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Where should one register a company?
I'm not a US citizen but planning to start an international business. So I'm wondering if there's a benefit/profit/perspective of registering a company in a different country than mine, like US, for ...
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I'm in need of a business plan for Mobile App! Also contracts for revenue-shared business!
My developer asks for a business plan for Mobile Apps? We would be partners in it sharing profits!
What kind of business plan do i need? Also maybe you could provide samples of a revenue sharing ...
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Finding internet-volunteers from Japan (or a certain country)
Thank you for reading my question.
I want to address following issue: I want to start a commercial website
that needs some information from Japan. Since I'm in the very beginning
position of this ...
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Am I missing anything or am I ready to begin selling?
My business is a New Zealand based IT hardware and support business focusing solely on small to medium businesses in my local region - Wellington.
I have built the website.
I have registered the ...
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How to know if I will need a dedicated server?
I am currently building my business on a shared hosting account with a reliable host(hostgator). When my site goes live, what should I look for that would be an indication that I should switch to a ...
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Should I continue with my idea?
Recently I had this idea about a website and I have a passion to for it. After doing a number of research, i know exactly what i need (design, developers, management etc) and i have a few discussion ...
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What services are commonly available from web design companies?
Other than web design, what services are commonly available from web design companies?
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Where does Woot source their products?
Woot.com sells one product each day. Does anyone know where they source their products? If it's overstock stuff or items that manufacturers want to get rid of, how would I get in touch with these ...
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What do you use/do to stay in touch with business partners that are in a different geographical location?
I'm looking for a good way to stay in touch with the hosts of my Momtrepreneur Exchanges around the country. There's a host in each of our 23 cities so far. It's a pile of people in different time ...
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How to approach retailer to arrange onselling agreement
In our local area there are certain products that are sold at a much higher premium by large big brand retail stores and they move a lot of this product.
There are smaller established stores who also ...
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What are the troubles of opening a company in foreign country?
Has anybody here actually done this? What were the problems? How can cultural differences affect businesses? Was the non-citizenship troubling? Maybe it is best to stay where you are? Or maybe it is ...
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Becoming a freelancer: where to start? (Taxes, registration, income/expenses…)
Not sure if this is the right site for freelancers, but becoming a freelancer is kinda a one-man start-up.
Anyway, my question would be, where to start. I only have a technical education and I ...
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How do I recruit an effective business partner?
Put yourself in my shoes: I have experience in internet marketing/sales, but I lack programming expertise. I came up with a new website/startup idea and acquired funding from private investors. I've ...
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The business of free
This is a question there in mind for long time. There are hundreds of free services in web which doesn't have any ads or anything. It's totally free. Angels are raising fund these company and ...
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Book keeping - accounting question
Example
You are a Service business, your customer pays you $100 for "Service X" via credit card.
You charge the customer an additional 2% of total sale for paying via Creditcard.
Hence the total the ...
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Umbrella Company
My dad also loved the business plan I had. He has his own company (which is not even close to what I am doing). He registered it as a sole proprietorship. He is an engineer so thats his company. He ...
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How do I structure a payment plan for my website?
I plan on making my website a paid one and have a question about structuring the payment plan. Think of the website as an ecommerce site selling very low ticketed items (as low as $0.05). Since ...
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How can I collect payment from my client?
I am an interpreter and business assistant. How can I ask for payment if there is no written agreement beforehand? What can I say to my client?
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Will my relocation greatly affect my business? My business fields are language interpretation, real estate market, travel market, internationanl trade market [closed]
I am building my own business and tentatively I will go into business interpretation, real estate market, travel market, and international trade market. I am trilingual and I like to travel around the ...
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How can I align my business with my life goals?
These things I am bothered by my business. You know, every one of us needs to make money. I decide to do it by creating my own business and preparing to do investment. I want to live around developed ...
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Does Outsourcing Sales work? Do you know any good companies and what is your own experience?
We were approached by some websites that offer virtual outsourced sales teams and I'm wondering if anyone has successfully used them, and which companies are recommendable in your experience? What are ...
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Can I list more than one product idea in the Start-up business plan?
My start-up business have more than one related business ideas and I am currently writing a business plan for the purpose of investment.
The good thing is both the business ideas are
are good as ...
