Topics related in general to business ideas and ideation.
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What's the value of duplicating other's ideas?
There are lots and lots of startups that succeeded. They prove that the idea behind them was good just as much as the implementation and marketing and all that stuff were good.
Then sometimes a 'new' ...
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How to decide whether an idea is worth pursuing?
You have a business idea, how do you decide whether it's worth pursuing?
i.e, say you plan to provide a SaaS service to users (which you think would be very useful for people), how do you know that do ...
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What are the some innovative/effective ways to streamline office expenses?
We are in the process of compiling a list of the most effective/innovative ways of streamlining office expenses. Can you offer some suggestions?
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Crowdsourced or 'community driven' venture capital [closed]
Following on the same theme as my earlier question about finding a place to share ideas and get feedback.
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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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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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Making money from Improving existing products
If I come up with an improvement to an existing product, how do I protect myself when sharing it, and get some of the revenues the idea generates?
There are many times when I look at an existing ...
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“Don't fall in love with your idea” Why?
I was wondering why do people suggest to not fall in love with idea. Is it so that we take criticism positively and don't get emotional at times or something?
But to me, it also looks like one ...
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How can I stop a new business from collapsing
I love software and plan to startup a business out of it. However I am told that over 90% of new startups fail before their 5th birthday. I don't intend to fail but I wonder what it takes to produce a ...
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why Can't Yahoo/MS build a good search engine ifnot better than google
I know this sounds like a technical question, but I am asking from an entrepreneurial angle.
Both Yahoo and Microsoft have been in the industry for decades, but what prevents them from coming up with ...
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New Business Idea - Who owns it?
I was looking for freelance work and met with a lawyer who had some work for me. The lawyer asked if I could build a product for him. I told the lawyer I can build the product and will charge him a ...
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Should you share your slide deck/pitch with investor?
I'm curious to here feedback on whether people think it's a good idea to share your slide deck after giving your pitch/presentation to a potential investor.
We just did a pitch...and had an investor ...
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How can non/coders contribute to a startup?
The subject is the question. How can someone who does not know how to code contribute to a startup? Do you recommend that that member attempt to learn some basic coding so as to contribute to the ...
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How long should you keep your idea a secret?
I am a graduating senior in college studying computer science and machine learning. For the past year, I have been working with two other people on what we think is a pretty fantastic idea, offering a ...
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Doing a startup on H1-B
I have been itching to do a startup since a long time but this visa (H1-B) is getting forever to sort out (6+ years already)
One idea to work around the H1B issue is as follows -
I transfer my H1 ...
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Are all random ideas worth the effort?
Suddenly an idea strikes me and I start thinking about it. In the initial hours (can be days), the prospect looks very exciting and promising, however with time I am able to see the ...
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Help evaluating a startup idea [closed]
Last week I had an idea for a new startup to help businesses with their recruitment process. So far my research into the idea has gone a little like this:
Thought about idea, did not know whether ...
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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? ...
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what web apps you would like to see as desktop? [closed]
hello all
i just wander what web apps you wish they could be desktop apps?
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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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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 are the barriers to good/great execution?
I always hear that it's execution that matters, not the idea, and that you can have a great idea, team, resources but still good execution is not guaranteed. How can that happen? I have been working ...
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Brainstorming the idea of Strategic Alliances
I'm reflecting on the ideas of businesses partnering with other businesses who are targeting the same audience. The idea would be to "partner together" and help promote one another.
eg. Business A ...
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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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Would it be smart to go straight to the big boys to implement an idea?
I have an idea that I want to bring to life that I believe will revolutionize the way we take care of our health and as a result improve our healthcare industry by reducing costs for health care. So ...
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Improvement of existing product
So I have (what I think) is a good improvement for an existing pet product that I use daily. There are also many people who use the same product that I think would like the modification I've thought ...
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Resources for startup ideas
Are there resources for startup ideas online? I'd like to get started in this world, and from what I understand, an idea isn't worth much. I have great people and means for great execution. However, a ...
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Getting an idea off the ground, and protecting it at the same time
This is my first question on here, so please excuse me if I haven't got used to any cultural norms this stack site has.
I have an idea, a great idea. An idea that I truly believe, with maybe a little ...
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How to find out if my idea for a company already exists?
I have an idea for a company I want to start (based around a product initally). How can I find out if a similar product already exists?
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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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What is better to start a business: a Great Idea or Skills/Expertise?
There are two alternatives to startup path:
A great idea (to solve a gigantic consumer problem) with enormous scalability, sustainability for long-term but in a different field/industry in which the ...
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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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A platform for private brainstorming and capturing all of my ideas
I suffer from having too many ideas and am constantly bombarded by my own subconscious that drops stuff on me unexpectedly...
My problem is that I need to capture all these ideas very quickly and ...
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Open Source Support Advice
I need your advice. Our startup plan is to give support to high quality open source softwares like xen, postgresql,drupal, hadoop, nagios etc. What do you think how must be the process from beginning ...
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Where should I go with just an idea, no capital or product or partners?
I have read the FAQ and hope that I have added enough detail to my question that it will not be considered to vague or open.
I have a great idea for a software product that I think could make a lot ...
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How to check if an idea will work and generate revenue?
I have done quite a bit of research before posting this question, so when I say I have a "good" startup idea it means:
I am solving a very common problem => there is scope for revenue generation
My ...
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where to find a “dead” software product to acquire?
I'd like to have a software product for my consulting company. I have no idea what, but I figure there's got to be a lot of "dead" software products and failed businesses out there that people have ...
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I have the POC where can I get Developers to build it to commercial launch for Equity in the business
I have built the Proof Of Concept for my web app idea, and it's great although a few aspects need to be added.
However our budget is completely out.
We have been looking for a development team who ...
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Need ideas: Selling a lite version of our eBook on Amazon
We are in the process of creating an eBook. Now we are contemplating to release this ebook in two versions, full and lite. 'Lite' version would be created to reach the extensive Amazon audience. The ...
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Is my code startup-worthy?
I created a pretty complex piece of software a while back for a client. I own all access rights to the code and can do anything with it.
In a very brief summary, this code can connect to a database, ...
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What is the right way to test an idea using a landing page?
I know there is a method to test your product idea using a landing page that describes your product, and asks for the user to enter his email if he would like to register for the beta. Then there is ...
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Mingling in angel investor gathering
I will be joining an event on angel financing where there will be quite some angel investors shown up.
Just wonder what I should talk about when meeting those angels, should I pitch them my ideas in ...
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Thinking about creating small desktop games, who is this market?
I'm thinking about starting to build and publish small desktop games and
puzzles. My background is 10 years of server c++/java programming. No GUI experience, and no gaming experience. I just love ...
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Platform to bring tech entrepreneurs to light
I've had this idea in my mind for a while now and I wanted some of your opinions on this.
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science. I feel like the inventions that many students do just go within ...
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Idea Validation ideas
What are some good ways to do low level idea validation before you get into the thick of developing a business concept? In other words, I am trying to find a system to prevent my habit of chasing all ...
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How do you decide whether to commit to a project?
I have several startup ideas waiting in a drawer, some of which are probably worth further exploring and continuing to a full business plan and start execution. A different person would probably label ...
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Instapaper for videos?
I love instapaper (read later or any similar tool), My question is who's going to do it for videos?
Imagine that you see a video but want to watch it later, you click your bookmarklet (browser ...
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High concept pitch review
I'm beginning fundraising for my brick & mortar textbook rental company. My best high concept pitch is "Blockbuster for textbooks". I need some feedback on how this rubs people, seeing that ...
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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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How to present and sell a business/product (one in the same) to potential buyer (bigger company) without risking them stealing my idea?
I have developed my product completely, and have built a business for the product to be able to take to market. The product is unlike anything else on the market as of now and in my opinion would work ...
