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Initial Result of Customer Development
Hope all is well. I just conducted a round of feedback interviews with 20 people(mostly students) about my startup. The results are 50% saying its a great idea and other 50% think its not worth it. I ...
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When a huge company copies your startup
What do you do when a huge online company (as dominant as say Google, Apple, Microsoft etc in their respective niche) has a big feature that's been lacking in their very popular product, and your ...
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What is/was the elevator pitch of Facebook?
An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define
a product, service, or organization and its value proposition.
What was the elevator pitch of Facebook when it started?
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How do you verify the viability of your idea?
I would like to hear from those folks that have gone through their initial market research and idea validation stages of their start-up and would like to share how they went about making sure their ...
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How to promote a desktop Facebook app about music to get alpha testers? [duplicate]
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I made a product, now how can I find customers?
I built a prototype for a desktop music app that will keep you updated with music. It has real-time music aggregation, ...
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How can I find Beta Test Couples for my New Game?
I am having trouble finding test couples to beta test my new couples' game and website. I have what I think is a great landing page, and get good feedback on it but because it's for adults (not porn ...
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Suggestions for marketing a Twitter app to new users
Technical Background:
I have an application that relies heavily on the Twitter API. This app is genuinely very useful for Twitter users across the board but especially for Twitter users who want to ...
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Dropbox revenue will double even without single paid customer. How?
Recency I read an article about growth of dropbox. Drop is growing with an amazing pace with 50 million users already with only less than 10% paid customers. They are expecting that next year their ...
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How does one judge the merits of an idea?
I'm at the Imagine Cup Finals, and I'm getting to see lots of students' projects, and lots of ideas. For competitions like that, there are of course a set of objectives that are slated as part of the ...
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How a company that uses a website like groupon calculates the minimum items they need to sell?
I have the intention of giving a try at one of those group buy like businesses that you can get prepared for you and start selling in your neighborhood or village. I understand, how the hold idea ...
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Group Buy Business Startup Tips
Is there anyone that has experience with some groopon like applications (clones) and would like to share with me their experience?. I am just a programmer and I don't have much experience with ...
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7answers
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How to source deals for my daily deals website start up?
Firstly, I know what you are thinking already, "Not another daily deals website!" - it's true, I am entering an oversaturated, highly competitive market of daily deal websites. It's going to be an ...
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I spent thousands of dollars creating a website. Now what?
What do I do next with a website I developed?
A little background. A few years back, I discovered there is no web directory of free email newsletters. However, virtually every organization of any ...
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How to find details of local guest houses for a small startup?
I am planning a small catalog website for the local guest houses so that people can search for a G.House in their area and spend the night or day.
What I want to know is how can I find such places? ...
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commercial applications for visual search?
This is a video of the google goggles app which does a good job of explaining what the current state of the art in visual search can do. its also being applied to searching patents, product ...
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What industry/field are going to change the world during next decade? [closed]
What's your opinion? Will it still be the Information technology?
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Marketing for the initial community of a community-based startup
My team is soon to release a new website. Essentially, the site is a collaborative game that relies on the community to be sustained.
What are some techniques/ideas for gathering the initial ...
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Affiliate based sites. What are the pitfalls?
I am thinking of creating a site which has content based on affiliate products where revenue comes from affiliate commissions. The site will be of high quality, human created and edited. I am planning ...
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I need ideas, your thoughts would be great!
So I have this domain called bargainstomper.com and I have been thinking all weekend about how to monetise the site. I came up with various ideas, like tech reviews leading to amazon affil links, ...
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What's the most interesting Twitter strategy that you've seen a startup use?
It seems like most startups on Twitter use one of two strategies:
1) Broadcast links & information about the company.
2) Broadcast links & information about the industry related to the ...
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How can I best utilize AdWords to test product ideas?
In order to test interest in a product, I've been told that its useful to use AdWords. What's the best way to maximize the usefulness of AdWords. How do I measure whether or not an idea is useful? ...
