Topics related in general to business ideas and ideation.
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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 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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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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What criteria do you use to judge the viability of a startup?
I'm currently building an evaluation grid to help me pick my next venture from my list
I would like to get more criteria to complete it.
Criteria can be both objective and subjective. I prefer ...
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What if Google+ stole my idea? Can I do anything about it? Should I?
From around March 2009 to October 2009, my sister and I built a website and dubbed it our "first startup": Jumpino.com. Truthfully, it was hardly a startup: we had no capital, no way of monetizing, ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 to validate startup idea w/o giving it away?
My current startup has stabilized and is running pretty much on cruise-control... What is interesting, however, is that as I was looking to provide an additional service to my potential customers, I ...
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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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Finding out another start-up has the same idea
I came up with a great idea for a webapp, I've been creating design docs, project specs etc. Everything was going well until I decided to google my idea, which to my surprise came up with one result ...
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Where to draw ideas from?
There are many great products and projects going on everywhere. Even if they aren't great - it doesn't matter. People are realizing their ideas and doing what they love.
So, where are people finding ...
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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 to determine the business potential of an idea?
I am an IT engineer, I am familiar with programming and website development (not a complete expert though), I am also good with servers, OS, security and networking etc (whole 9 yards of IT).
What I ...
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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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Should I outsource the development of my idea or develop it myself?
Short background:
I have a web startup idea which solves an existing problem. There are many online solutions available for the problem, but my solution is "unique". I have done a basic background ...
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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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When to compete on an idea?
I spend a lot of time thinking about potential start up ideas. I come up with a couple every now and then, but when I go searching online there is always quite a few competitors. I don't think I've ...
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Examples of tasks you have successfully delegated
I am looking for examples of tasks that you have successfully delegated to others - be it either in house staff, virtual assistants or outsourcing.
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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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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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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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I have an idea but no free time - can I pay offshore developer?
I am a software developer. I have a good idea and I'd like to create a startup.
I am planning to invite one or two of my colleagues as co-founders.
Problems:
1) Free time
I realised it is very ...
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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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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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Are patents worth investing in?
We have got patents for specific technologies in the past, they cost a lot and the value was not really visable.
We often develop specific algorithms for real-time systems and work with a range of ...
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Think I Have a Great Startup Idea, Don't Know Next Steps
Ok, so everyone thinks they have the next big great idea. Let's just assume for the sake of this question that I really DO have a good/great idea.
Some background and basic. I'm obviously not ...
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How to deal with easily copyable idea?
I have a new idea that's dead simple and I don't think it's been done before. what precautions should I take to prevent a copycat from emerging and getting popular?
I know getting all the press is ...
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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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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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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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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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While H1B can I work on my interested Idea as Startup with no intention of earning?
I am on H1B. I love technology and work on small idea while having time during weekends. I want to shape my idea and setup a startup but don't want to monetize it. Does it still call business as I am ...
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How do I protect my idea before launching my web-service?
I have a unique idea about a web-service.
How do I protect against duplicating my idea before launching?
I'm afraid I'd end up rivaling against massive number of competitors like Groupon does now.
I'm ...
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My business model: helping guys get laid [closed]
I’m entered into a business plan competition at my university and I could use a little inspiration to get my brain juices flowing. If the business plan works out I might even implement it in real ...
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Post Hackathon hack theft :(
I competed in a Facebook hosted hackathon at my university and my team and I were able to create a product that won second place in the competition - and for discussion's sake lets call it AppX.
The ...
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Choosing a business to dive into
Let me start by giving a quick intro to myself. I've worked as a Technician for hosting companies, Systems Administrator for software development companies, as a CTO for a very successful online ...
