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about launching concurrent projects
yes, I have a couple of them that I do not want to give up any. Supposing they all got very positive feedback from very initial surveys, I would like to request your views on the possibility of their ...
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What is a good model to use to estimate membership growth over time for a dance video tutorial website?
I plan to make a website that has video tutorials for a specific style of dance (lets say like swing or salsa).
I used:
Google AdWord Keyword Tool
and typed in "online dance classes" and clicked ...
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How do most chains fund initial expansion? [closed]
I am really curious about the primary method most chain restaurants use for funding their own expansion. Selling franchises is always an option but if the main company wants to retain ownership and ...
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as a new company how do you answer: how big is your company?
We are a relatively new and small software company, 3 years in business with 8 employees.
We have been approached by a very large multinational company wanting to use our software - one of the key ...
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How do I get answers to complex analytics questions?
I use Flurry and Mixpanel specifically to track users behavior in my apps, but the question is fundamentally solution agnostic.
What do you do to understand better the complex and interesting ...
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I've just lost my business mind, can't think straight!
Business hasn't been great lately, I've been riddled with problems of my service losing demand, employees not seeing a future and am unable to get new services launched in time because of difficulty ...
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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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Revenue / user growth projection for UGC-social-startup business plan
I have to write a business plan and I'm stuck on the revenue and business projection part.
We're building a platform that is all about user-generated-content concerning a certain topic. It also has a ...
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How do you make people to spend more time on a political website
I'm part of a political website which publish analyses, news and interviews on a regular basis.
It's been almost a year since our foundation, and even though our visitor count raises we still could ...
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Build the team of a start up software business working on contract projects?
What is a popular way to build the team of a start up software business that takes on contract work from other companies?
Additional info
I founded a small company with a team of web+mobile software ...
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How does a start-up not repeat Groupon's 'mistakes"?
I was reading this article about Groupon in the CS Monitor. Which starts from the assumption that the significantly decreased proposed valuation of Groupon in their IPO to $12+/- million from $25 +/- ...
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Early stage strategies of growing your customer base for online start-up?
I wonder what do you recommend are the best strategies for growth and promotion of your online start-up in the early stages after launch?
How do you get your name out there and how do you effectively ...
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Can a telecommuting job help one grow his skills compared to job at office?
How would you compare a telecommuting (overseas) job at a startup (when everything at the startup be it the work, the environment, the people, etc looks exciting enough) with another job at the ...
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How do newcomers (startups) manage to surpass established companies?
Older company (generally?) have:
more resources
hire better talent (not sure about this though)
are already popular - market share
(guess more stuff can be added here that goes in favor of older ...
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Recruit Managers before Junior Execs or other way around?
Have been running a business for a couple of years now but been managing most of the areas of the business myself - web development and marketing - while I have staff who take care of customer ...
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Do any services provide email management to allow a limited number of 'shareable' invites? Or are there alternatives to that system out there?
Here is the backstory - we are launching a service in the next few weeks, but wish to invite a limited number of contacts initially. A major part of the plan is to allow these contacts to invite ...
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How to grow a social media business based on location, from one location to global?
I assume Foursquare faced this issue. You've got a social service that is location based but requires a lot of users to make valuable. I'm in a similar boat with an upcoming start up, and I'm trying ...
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Dating website/community with forced Invites
i am running a dating website for 3 months now, have about 5000 unique visitors and 115k page views. My website was featured in a nationwide newspaper, really big though, and it is responsible for the ...
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How do online forum sites get users?
There are millions of forums out there where users are required to register in order to post.
How do these sites grow from nothing?
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How damaging are ads to product adoption?
Has anyone come across any research or has had experience with just how much more damaging to product/site adoption it is to have ads like AdSense on your site versus not having them?
Any measurable ...
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How are you using Quora to help you build and grow your start up?
Quora is becoming an increasingly powerful resource for startups. How are you using Quora and what do you suggest as best practices for Quora to help build and grow a start up while avoiding being ...
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Growing strategies: starting free and small, or going all in?
I was just reading a thread which I cannot find again, and it brought up a question.
People were advising this guy not to develop his idea 100% perfectly, but to start small, and make it free, and ...
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What are the two most effective things you've done with Twitter to drive growth for your start up?
Twitter can be a great tool to help a start up get noticed and build relationships with prospects and clients. What are the two best things you've done for your start up that leverage Twitter without ...
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Using a Staffing Agency - Is it a Bad Idea?
If you've exhausted your personal network (and friends' networks), and now need to hire people who have skills that you don't have, would you try working with a staffing agency?
I've heard a lot of ...
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How do I judge if my online community is growing fast enough?
My partner and I started our own Q&A community for filmmakers. I realize this kind of community is not gigantic but there are a lot of sites out there servicing the needs of this type of ...
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Goal setting for the new year
Many of us here on the site are owners of small businesses or getting a startup up and running. I'm curious to know what goals people are setting for the new year, and whether or not you spend time ...
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In a community based startup, what is a good community growth velocity? What is a worrying one?
I know this depends on the community in question, how actively I am marketing it, how well search engines have indexed it and so forth. But I was wondering if there are some good guidelines in terms ...
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Developing and formalizing sales process
From day one and until recently our sales process was awesomely non-existent and very much adhoc. As we sell creative and web software development services, and lack of good process bit us in the ass ...
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Reasonable growth rate for a Q&A startup
I'm currently building a business plan for my startup. The startup is a kind of Q&A website with an important twist that differs it from existing Q&A websites.
The information in the biz plan ...
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How to convince my partners not to put too much overhead on our company
I just started a developing company. We are 4 partners. Two of us are programmers.
Our start-up is slowly growing — we have a customer and few persons are interested to invest money. Now we need to ...
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What tactics did Facebook or LinkedIn or Bebo use to grow?
I'm creating a forecast for my free membership-based website. I want to create both a membership growth forecast and a revenue forecast.
While every website is different, I'd like to know how ...
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What is the best way to make my site known worldwide, not just locally?
My problem is that while I'm targeting the whole world, since this is a Greek startup, the majority of the users that sign up are Greek. The result is that they post in Greek. Later when the site gets ...
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What size of companies are the most profitable?
I often read about large companies that are in major trouble. According to the theories of economies of scale/scope large companies should, almost by definition, be profitable. t also seems like the ...
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Managing Aggressive Growth … responsibly
I run an aggressively growing (SaaS) eCommerce software company. We're becoming well known in a niche market, and have managed to bootstrap to where we are with modest investment (<500k). We ...
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What to do with a startup, that is not thriving, but is not complete failure either
I'm working on a startup that is providing web-based application. We have over 600 paying customers, which is 5% market share in that particular niche. It takes 2 persons to drive this business, but ...
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Is a Design Firm startup feasable in this economy?
Currently my portfolio acts as my business website, please see what I mean at www.innasokolskaya.com. I have been wanting to make it more like a business, focusing on corporate identities for new and ...
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Growing Successfully Using Strategic Business Alliances
Traditionally businesses have grown through hiring employees, building and acquiring assets, establishing branches and subsidiaries, etc. but with this comes high overhead, segregation of duties, and ...
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how to expand the business into other countries quickly?
we're an internet-company in switzerland and now we're heading to germany and soon europe. how can we build up sales forces in every country extremley fast and with low costs? our customers are ...
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What decision you made in 2009 had the biggest impact on the growth of your business?
I started treating - information as a commodity.
This change in mindset opened up many more possibilities and opportunities. Basic idea is that much information can be treated like any food item. ...
