Topics related in general to business ideas and ideation.
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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 ...
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How do you build a customer base before you have a product?
How can you build a customer base for your product when all you have is an idea (promise of value)?
I'm thinking about getting my product idea to a couple of forums to engage people in it's design and ...
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How do you decide what project to pursue next?
I'm an independent software developer. As I'm beginning work on my next project, I'm curious about how others in the same situation prioritize the different projects available to their firm.
So, if ...
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Reasons to not disclose your idea?
It doesn't appear that this site looks at it as spam. Is there a strong fear of having it stolen? It just seems like the feedback would be improved.
Are people this protective in the real world?
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IP and legal issues around use of some technologies
PS: i am naive if not zero when it comes to what it means to start or run a startup. So, please bear my question.
i am very passionate to work on some of my ideas but i am always let down by the ...
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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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Mobile platform of the future
We are thinking of launching some applications on the mobile platform. However, I am not sure which platforms we should target among, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and Android. Any thoughts on which of ...
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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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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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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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crowd financing - any opinions/comments?
What would your SWOT analysis say for following kind of website?
phase 1: Get people/organizations who are looking for financing their projects.
phase 2: Get people who can provide finance to these ...
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What are the steps to go from an idea to having a business?
Let me preface this with the fact I am not a business student. I am a computer science student but I have a great interest in creating a startup. These questions have probably been asked before, so if ...
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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 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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Are there other novel classifieds websites besides craigslist? [closed]
Are there other novel classifieds websites besides craigslist?
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What if a big company copies my idea after my website goes public?
I have developed a website. If I go to meet an angel investor, he may ask, "Do you think your website is innovative?" I can answer "Yes." Then he may ask,"Suppose your website is innovative, what if a ...
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Protecting my idea
I have a unique money making idea in the Social Web space. I have discussed the idea with some trusted friends who's opinions I highly value and they agree it is something unique. I also have a ...
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How do you evaluate the competitive landscape before building?
Suppose you are evaluating an idea for commercial viability. You look to see whether there are competitors. Of course there are, because there always are. How do you judge whether the market has an ...
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Strategies for coming up with ideas
The first step in any startup must be coming up with an idea and this seems a big first hurdle.
A lot of people seem to come up with these ideas either to address problems they are experiencing or ...
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New Year's Resolutions for a Start-Up Founder
What are some new things that a start-up founder should do next year?
If I was making a start-up checklist for 2010, what would you put on it?
Things you absolutely must do
Things you should ...
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Deciding on the right idea
I get ideas for websites that I think would be viable business ideas on a regular basis. I currently have about 5 swimming around in my mind, but very little time to devote to their development.
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How novel does a startup idea need to be?
I Googled my idea and found another company that has been doing the same thing for a few years. It's for somewhat of a niche market, but everyone I talk to (including potential clients) says it's a ...
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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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How to ensure success before launching?
Dharmesh Shah made mention about talking people to people who are interested in your domain about your product before releasing your idea. he talks about it in this video over at mixergy. Excellent ...
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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 to identify the problems to solve in an industry you know nothing about
I'm not sure how to word this but I'll do my best.
I'm in the software business. I know this industry very well and am able to identify problems within this industry. However, there's a ton of ...
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Looking for platform or market to develop for/on as single developer [closed]
Hello all
I'm looking for platform or niche market to start to develop add-ons or plug-ins
to it. Something that's suitable for single developer -- what would you recommend?
( I don’t care which ...
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How do you start a software business when you have no idea about it
Let's say that I have come up with a good software idea that needs to be built and designed. Let's also imagine that I have no background in IT and therefore need to find somebody to build and write ...
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How should we approach selling to entrepreneurs?
We recently launched a new service business.
Our target is the potential entrepreneur. Our goal is to help the people go from curious to competent in making the go/no go decision in launching their ...
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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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Facebook and Twitter updates in same stream?
I have an idea about an app and one of the many things it would do is allow the user to view twitter and facebook updates in the same stream. This really isn't key to the app, but I'm wondering if ...
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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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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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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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Is there a place I can go to float my ideas and get feedback?
I have decided to take off an extended period of time and take one of my ideas to market. I have been an independent and very successful developer for over a decade. Bigger than that though I am an ...
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Music management , music recondition , music … music market what do you think about it? [closed]
Hello all
in my endless brain storming ( with my self ) i was thinking about the music industry how is the
music cataloging , or music recommendation or any other music niche it can be players or web ...
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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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Startup Business Model - infinite partners
Here is my weird idea about startup Business Model.
Facebook, Twitter and most of all other web startups valuation is based on number of users. Then why user don't get cut? What if you give cut to ...
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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 to fail fast vs sticking with your idea?
Many say you need to launch fast and then decide whether your idea works or not and then fail fast if needed. But how do you decide when to fail ( fail = stop working on current idea and start working ...
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How do you reward for innovation?
It seems to me that encouraging innovation is extremely important for startups, but how do you reward it?
If one employee contributes 10 good ideas that never get across the line, and another ...
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How did you conceive your startup idea?
I think a lot of conceivable startups have already been conceived. A lot of workable business ideas have already been worked out. How did you manage to conceive your startup idea?
All is well if you ...
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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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Does going overseas help startups to grow?
I am a start-up and i am wondering if i should travel to silicon valley first before deciding on what business to do.
i have plenty of ideas for websites. and am still thinking what to settle for.
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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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Barriers to truly global payment processing?
As a startup in Australia, one of the problems commonly faced here is getting a suitable payment service that customers world wide can use.
It seems that since the implementation of global AML/KYC ...
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Which is more important? The right people or the right idea?
As opportunities come and go one has to decide whether to get involved in each one. Some of those opportunities are about good ideas and some of them have easily recognisably good people behind them. ...
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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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How do you protect the key features of your product without a patent?
I'm working on improving an old web based product but afraid that my idea will be copied by the bigger players. For example, let's say I build an improved a web-based task management software but ...
