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How do you keep yourself motivated?
A lot of entrepreneurs and founders have those 'down times' when they're in a strange funk, slightly burned out from the startup for one reason or another. Some of these reasons may be an ...
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Previous examples of failed diversification [closed]
I remember once reading of an example where a company did not stick to its core product line and diversified. But what they stand for with one of their operations was at odds with their old core line, ...
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How to keep yourself motivated
I know many questions with same subject has been asked, i am asking this question after reading many of them.
I am working as an IT person to keep doing my day to day expenses but there is one idea ...
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Turning around a startup
A year ago, my friends and I started a company based on a big (relatively) project referred to us by a friend. Now the project is complete and we've gotten deals with several companies to build ...
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focus on only one target or try at least a few?
Because of the nature of startups, they have multiple ways of proceeding with the product. this is the problem right now for us.
we were planning to for go for global but now we noticed there is a ...
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Startup losing its focus, is there danger in overextending?
I am a software engineer working at a startup of less than 5 years that has a mildly successful software that brings in enough money to keep the lights on and everybody paid. I am currently the only ...
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Right action, right time--what's the next action?
I'm following the lean startup/customer development process (particularly Ash Maurya's 'Running Lean' book) and I have been implementing tasks in parallel rather than in a queue. At the moment, I am ...
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Six Months Into Start-Up - Focus On One Client or Expand Platforms?
I am currently working for a start-up and our first product has been in development for several months. We have reached a fork in the road and I would like to ask the OnStartups community for some ...
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Focus Group for marketing how and effectiveness (Boot Strapped)?
I'm a B2C start up bootstraping. I'm working on a software product and am looking for techniques to talk with my hopeful customers.
Working a real time dictionary solution that integrates and ...
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How do you know your product or service is market ready?
Is there a checklist or some stats that anyone has used that gives a comfort level to getting to a minimum valid product?
I'm a lone startup ISV and find that I need to take extra effort to mistake ...
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Do you think that startup geolocation is relevant in a software vendor marketplace?
I've got an answer for this, or at least... I hope to have an answer, that is 'No'. But since I'm a newcomer with very poor experience in this wonderful world that is 'starting up', I'd like to have ...
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How to get the passion back and to stay focused and organized?
I've been running my business for 3 years now. It's grown substantially and doing quite well but I seem to be losing the passion of running the business. I'm interested in doing newer things but need ...
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System/Advice for LT Goals Yet Allow for Unplanned Opportunities
With the new year approaching, I am working on my 2010 goals and priorities. In the past I used Franklin Planners and Outlook. I also have a Blackberry. I continuously look for ways to help me stay ...
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Baby steps: Local market with subventions
BLUF: Would it be better to use governement subsidises to help a startup take its first steps even if it mean limiting the product to a french-canadian audience or open it to the world audience and ...
