Topics related in general to business ideas and ideation.
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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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I need to change the name of my blog… can you help with suggestions? [closed]
I created the blog Austin Tech Geeks in August of last year. It's been somewhat successful as I have been able to get a decent number of subscribers and uniques every month. The blog is about tech ...
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Is it possible to patent a programming language?
I am considering inventing a new specialized programming language, which should increase the human/computer communication speed considerably. I, therefore, have two questions:
Is it possible to get ...
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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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biz idea: web app to track legal docs [closed]
I recently met some guys in a coffee shop to hear their idea, and before we talked about their idea, they asked me to sign an NDA. They had two printed copies, and we each signed both, and then we ...
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Where and with whom can I do product development?
Assuming I have an idea for an iPhone Gadget like this: Griffin-Simplifi-iPhone-Reader-Aluminum
I am a creative person or a designer. If I want to realize this product to whom do I have to go, to ...
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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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Advice on a social enterprise - Video Skill Sharing Encyclopedia [closed]
I’m after some advice regarding creating an encyclopedia of short videos tutorials on life skills to be shared freely on the web.
I classify a life skill as any human task that one person is ...
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Is there a project starting/launching platform/community online?
I have a lot of project ideas (like many of you) but I have some issues. There seems to be no easy way to find existing project online or to ask people what they think of an idea. I'm looking for a ...
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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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So I've got this great idea for the iPad… but what next?
Maybe someone has experience with this?
I've been mulling this idea for an app that would really show off what's possible with a tablet like the iPad. It doesn't exist yet, and I want it to.
I'm ...
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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 do you find a gap in the market?
I want to start a new business but I don't know what business to start. I know I have certain talents and aptitudes, but how do you find a gap in the market? I want to go where the money flow is and ...
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What goods are cheaper in US than in China Mainland so I can import them and resell in China Mainland? [closed]
What goods are cheaper in US than in China Mainland so I can import them and resell in China Mainland?
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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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Ideation, build a business, live abroad, improve the Japanese language. How to combine three goals into one?
I am a Chinese guy with a bachelor's degree, unmarried. I want to go abroad to live in US, Japan and France for some years. In the meantime I want to build my own business. I don't want to work for ...
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What's the best business book you have ever read? [closed]
I need inspirational and pragmatic business books.
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How did you come up with your business idea?
For those of you who have successful businesses, how did you come up with your business idea?
I'm trying to think of a business idea but none of the ideas I've come up with so far (currently about ...
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How to come up with a great idea?
Most essential part of any start up is a good idea. So what should you do (not specifically, of course), to come up with an idea (including day-to-day behavior, studying etc.)? Thanks for any answers ...
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Ideas and experinces on startups in casino areas?
Recently, my home town located on the border between Greece and Macedonia (small town 20K citizens) is getting more new casinos (currently 3 average large 5 stars hotel casinos and 5 small electronic ...
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Should I pitch my idea to Angel Investors?
We have an idea for a website. I am a software developer, but I don't want to spend all my time creating this site that won't sell or be marketable or popular whatsoever, and make us no money.
Would ...
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Finding internet-volunteers from Japan (or a certain country)
Thank you for reading my question.
I want to address following issue: I want to start a commercial website
that needs some information from Japan. Since I'm in the very beginning
position of this ...
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Am I missing anything or am I ready to begin selling?
My business is a New Zealand based IT hardware and support business focusing solely on small to medium businesses in my local region - Wellington.
I have built the website.
I have registered the ...
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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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5 tests my next business idea will have to pass - Can you add more?
I launched my most recent app a few days back. The idea is to aggregate all the business related videos, compile the meta data and also generate more meta data and present to the users. I have been ...
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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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What should my next step be in implementing my idea?
I am wondering what my next step should be in implementing my idea.
Should I design a smaller step of the website (I mean script and the actual design)? I can't use SEO to get traffic. I was ...
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Is there room for a service based on location?
... allowing businesses to post ads for local communities, getting info about public services, tourism information, and also memorable places for all users? I had trouble finding such a service ...
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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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New Product Ideas - how to get started
I've got several ideas for new products that I think might fill various gaps in the market. However, I'm unsure where to start. I'm not an engineer, nor do I have access to facilities to create ...
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What are high barrier niches that are hard to get into in software
Yes I do what to get idea if this is the question , what are not crowded niches that are hard to get into for single developer or team of 2?
In software industry
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Idea for product, is there such tool? Facebook visual statistics
I am looking for a product to help friend that is an internet marketing guy, something that will connect to your facebook account.
It should give you statistics about your friends - e.g. like, ...
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Should I move forward with my idea if it is similar to someone else's?
I have two ideas for websites that basically take the same idea as some other site, but make that idea better. Kinda like Myspace being plowed by Facebook. I had the ideas on my own, but then I did ...
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“Like” clone idea
I am adding new section to my site where students or alumni of a particular film schools can be associated with their schools. Facebook did something similar in the early days and later they went with ...
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What do you think about the document management niche?
Is that market worth entering, especially for selling to small companies?
To build chipper document management systems?
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Will my relocation greatly affect my business? My business fields are language interpretation, real estate market, travel market, internationanl trade market [closed]
I am building my own business and tentatively I will go into business interpretation, real estate market, travel market, and international trade market. I am trilingual and I like to travel around the ...
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How can I align my business with my life goals?
These things I am bothered by my business. You know, every one of us needs to make money. I decide to do it by creating my own business and preparing to do investment. I want to live around developed ...
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Preparing for my international trade business. Didn't make any big inroad during the past 3 weeks [closed]
I quitted my job and started to preparing for my international trade business at the beginning of this month. But now almost one month passed, I have not gotten things into shape. I have not make a ...
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How can I combine asking questions on the Internet with money making?
My biggest hobby/interest is to ask questions on the Internet. I have to admit this hobby brings me a lot. I feel I am an innate asker.I'm asking questions on the Internet always every day. I have ...
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I want to enter the parents control market what do you think? [closed]
Hello all
as father to kids and after seeing kids surfing the internet and there parents trying to monitor this
it made me wander about the parents control market especially the desktop application ...
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How to integrate/combine the process of writing a book with making money? [closed]
I want to write a book. But you know, writing a book requires a long time and I have no idea whether or not my book will sell out after it is written out. I want to make money, to have my own ...
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How to integrate/combine Japanese learning with making money?
I'm teaching myself the Japanese language, in the meantime I need to make money. How can I combine/integrate making money with Japanese language learning?
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Any examples of “positive feedback” startup ideas for production companies?
I am looking for examples of ideas, historical or current, where the output of a production process is also used as the input. An example could be something like this:
Magnifying glass is used to ...
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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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How to implement “infrastructure” ideas? [closed]
I have several ideas that I label "infrastructure ideas" (both physical and virtual). This means that the ideas will create completely new infrastructure (I use a very broad definition of the term) ...
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How would you compete against Digg / Reddit
I think the time is right to launch a site that is similar to Digg / Reddit but stays close to Digg's original ethos of catering toward tech.
I wouldn't compete against Digg directly. Digg is too ...
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How do you manage ideas (engineering changes) in a start up?
I'm involved, as a software developer, in an early stage (pre-profit) start up. The product is at a point where the basic core is implemented and we are building out features and adding polish, so ...
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Dropping ideas all the time. Does the “idea” really matter?
For the past 4-5 months I've been brainstorming ideas for web startups. I start to implement an idea and on the way discover that it's not going to work (too hard to implement, etc.).
I know that ...
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Do you think web hosting market is over saturated?
It seems there are thousands of web hosting companies out there and the market seems saturated. Do you think it's a good idea to start one? I am not talking about becoming an affiliate of another ...
