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Strategies for When One Discovers Competitor
For that past few months, I've been building a product that targets a specific niche. The kind of product I have been building hasn't been around the marketplace, and I knew there is a demand.
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What do VCs look for?
I'm writing an article on a San Francisco startup competition featuring the young Japanese entrepreneur finalists (eventbrite info here) and was wondering what investors and judges are looking for ...
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Can you be sued by a competitor simply for looking at their website?
I have been working on a SaaS product for about a year and a half (on and off, among other projects). Lately I have gotten serious about the product. While doing a routine evaluation of competitors ...
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Stealing customers from competitors on Twitter?
I am currently running a very simple side project which I hope will lead to something bigger.
I see quite a few tweets from my competitors customers saying they're using their product for a ...
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Do people consider gamification a feature, business concept, or strategy?
I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a major ...
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Start up competitors and user base
I'm a qualified software engineer and I've been reading some articles about start ups.
Y combinator Coming up with Start Up Ideas
How to get start up ideas
12 Rules For Building Your First ...
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When does inspiration become theft?
When is it taking inspiration from a competitor, and when is it theft? I'd like to know the general questions to ask myself when reviewing competing products in creation of my own.
(I'd be surprised ...
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When to compete on an idea?
I spend a lot of time thinking about potential start up ideas. I come up with a couple every now and then, but when I go searching online there is always quite a few competitors. I don't think I've ...
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Why “Big” companies acquire instead of just copying startups?
Most of us know the quote:
“Good artists copy, Great artists steal” - Steve Jobs
Copying and in extreme cases stealing is no news as a recipe for a successful businesses. Whether the term should ...
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Winning Lean Startup Machine, how are winners selected?
Even though the Lean Startup Machine events are focused on startup teams rapidly engaging markets to produce measurable results, comparing the results between the teams seems like it might be hard to ...
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Evaluating competitors assets
I'm curious to know how most go about gathering information regarding their competitors? I am interested in developing an application that would directly compete with numerous websites and I am having ...
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Exclusivity on a free platform?
Im developing a business model that brings a new feature to its market. the idea itself is new and nobody is doing it today. in order to enable this, Im using an existing platform (free at this time) ...
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Am I ruining the industry?
I'm currently building/running a 'digital marketing agency' from home with my partner. We provide websites (business card sites, CMS-driven sites, e-commerce etc), hosting, email services right ...
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Just getting started; someone else released the same app - what now?
Please imagine this scenario for a moment:
You've got a great idea for a software product, and research indicates you've got basically no competition because your product has unique features that ...
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How do I get financial information for a competitor located in Canada?
How do I get financial information (turnover, profit etc) for a competitor located in Canada?
Here in Sweden, there are several sites which can be used to get financial information. For instance, ...
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How do off-brand manufacturers imitate a popular, new technology so quickly?
While I was reading on my Kindle this morning, I thought about how many other kinds of similar E-Ink readers there are now (Sony's, Kobo, Aluratech, Nook). I realize Kindle wasn't the first E-Ink ...
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Marketing - Competitor goes out of business
I've read that the online image editor app http://www.picnik.com closes.
How should a competitor react on such a message? What marketing measures are the right ones to reach users that are looking ...
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Should I describe my differentiators on my website, or will the competition copy from me?
I'm launching a website with some features that are different from my two competitors. One of my competitors established a website in 2008, and one launched in January. A friend told me not to publish ...
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Researching competition that is under-cutting the market
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I'm in the market research stage of my startup (manufacturing), and when researching my competition I noticed one company who is able to provide similar goods to what I plan to sell at a ...
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Should I apply for a job with a future competitor to get some inside knowledge?
I’m a web developer/designer and had a business idea for a website about 10 years ago which, for various personal reasons have only started to take the time to start building over the last few ...
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What incentives could I offer to keep customers?
I'd like to start a business in the service industry (not a restaurant) with a very low barrier to entry (as such I can't give specifics).
Aside from making the best product/service that I can, what ...
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Create identical product and sell for half price?
I would like to compete in the software market and I thought that if I just present a product that provides the same functionality and is as good as its competitors and sell if for half the price then ...
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News source of companies who have received funding
As a CEO of a startup, I would like to stay informed about potential competitors. One source of such information would be to read news about startups that have received funding from investors. I am, ...
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How a vertical search engine can enter the market, since the main content source provider doesn't share their data?
Here is the case,
There is a market that we want to enter as a vertical search engine (think of indeed.com). It is a classifieds search engine. However, the market's biggest classified site that we ...
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Online marketing blog and ressources
First, this site has a wealth of info. Thanks for putting it up (whoever did).
I have an idea in the area of online advertising. It is pretty straightforward but I have not been able to find any ...
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Running an aggressive promotion against a competing product
We want to run a promotion on our website. In the promotion, if someone can provide us proof of purchase of a competitor's software license, we will give them a free software license of our product.
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competitor requested software download for a niche market product, should I oblige?
We are in stage of market validation and working with few early adopters to mature our software product that targets a niche market. Potential customers can fill out a form for a trial download and we ...
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How to determine competitor's pricing model when impersonating a customer is challenging
This question accompanies my recent previous question, Are there any methods you can think of to determine a comptetitors pricing model under these stipulations:
The pricing sheet is not publicly ...
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Taking the next step: Analysis of competition turns up demoralizing results, proceed on?
First of all thank you to everybody for my previous questions on this site, you inspire me to think about problems differently.
My father and I had a great idea for a web based startup, we have ...
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How to approach new competitor to my copyrighted product?
I have an LLC and developed a copyrighted program that I sell online. I frequently enter in various terms online and see how I'm doing in the search results vs. my competitors.
All of a sudden, I am ...
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Are There Any Internet-based Regular Startup Hackathons?
Like most of you, I have some good start-up ideas I feel are both good and easily realizable. Of course, I have plenty of 'real' work to do for more mature projects, so I have difficulty convincing ...
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Should I make my service free?
For the past year I have been developing a VERY niche based review/community site, in the healthcare field. I did as much h/w as possible in searching for competitors, and there were zero direct ...
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How to sell start-up to a competitor?
I have a startup that has developed a few software products. I'm finally having a decent amount of success in getting people to use the products, but I am tired of putting money into this and would ...
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How to Approach Potential Customers Without Tipping off the Competition
We are working on a service that endeavors essentially to provide an advertising forum for a certain class of goods and services whose providers we consider our key customers.
There are others ...
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Similiar startup appeared before mine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Finding out another start-up has the same idea
Is there any reason to scrap a start-up, when you find out there is more competition then originally thought?
My ...
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When/How Often Do Startups Join Together?
I asked this on my blog, but then realized this would be a good forum for discussions so am asking here as well:
How Often Do Startups Join Together?
In talking to and mentoring dozens of startups ...
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Is there any reason to scrap a start-up, when you find out there is more competition then originally thought?
When initially researching the competition during the early stages of the product development, there did not appear to be very much competition, other then two larger contenders. However, as this ...
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Should I use my competitor's videos on my website before scaling?
a bit of background before my question:
I've built a video sharing website that is specific to extreme sports, where users currently embed videos from third-party websites like Vimeo or Youtube. ...
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Should I let a potential vendor know which of his competitors I'm also considering?
So this is a "how much information should I reveal when making a deal" type of question.
Obviously when one requires a service, one shops around to all of the different vendors that offer that ...
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But can't that big competitor with lots of money do what you're doing?
I have a startup idea that improves upon an existing idea in a uniquel and differentiated way. Let's call my idea "David". However, there exists a very large, well-known competitor, "Goliath".
David ...
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How to find information about competitors?
I am interested in finding information about a competitor and I am curious if anyone knows of any good resources for this type of thing.
Information I'd like to know:
How much money they made last ...
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Concerns About Safety of Competitor's Product, Say Something or Not?
I've been working up to a full launch and found a competitor emerging. I'm making the liquid used in electronic cigarettes, which contains nicotine along with flavoring and components thought to be ...
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Should I let my (large, established) competitors snoop around our service?
we built an idea management system at the Taipei Startup Weekend (a few days ago) and were delighted to finish second.
This morning we've found that a competitor, one who's clients include FedEx, ...
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Low Barriers to entry
I am looking to start a service business that has very low barriers to entry and I am concerned with competition. Has anyone had a similar problem or concern? If so, what have you done to overcome ...
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How to find out the price of a niche product?
we have a customer that's about to choose between us writing software for them, and a ready made solution. The market is investment banking, and we have the opportunity to staff people and grow our ...
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Launching Competing SaaS (how blatant can you mention your competitor)
I am launching some SaaS later next week that will be directly competing with someone who has a monopoly in the space. We will (hopefully) be cheaper, more features, better support and more ...
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Is it worth the effort to try to make a better version of another iPhone app?
This app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator/id289940142?mt=8) seems pretty good, but I would like to make a better version. I am already an iPhone app developer. Is it worth it to try ...
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Group Buying Large Competitor Launches in my Vertical, Do I continue?
I am in Australia and am in the early stages of a Family related deal site so launching in a vertical. I know the market is super crowded but we know this demographic is not being served well by the ...
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How to get permission/integrate with ERP legally?
I created my own product(P) which is pretty much standalone but would benefit a LOT if it integrates with existing ERP package(ERP). Integration can be done 2 ways:
read only where I pull data from ...
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Tumblr, EverNote, Facebook - How Do They Start? [closed]
There is a lot's of start-ups that not protected by a patent like tumblr/twitter/evernote and more...
How do they start getting massive users without letting copycats and Competitor disturbing them??
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