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How can i get expert people as early adopters? [closed]
I'm working to validate an idea. The prototype is live and we are working to launch the beta soon, but i'm looking for ways to approach bloggers to be early adopters.
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Which strategy will you use for launching a dating community website?
Imagine a dating community like meetic, where you can register for free, but you must pay every 6 months for using all the functionalities. Which will be your strategy for your launch, taking into ...
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Domain name confusion
(apologies to those who had to read the prior messy and insanely long text. i shortened it as below)
I will be thankful for your insights on possible domain name conflicts in the following case.
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Explain product by example?
Is it a good idea to describe the features of a product/service by making fictional scenarious how to use this product?
I know the best aproach would be to present at first the problem and show ...
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overcoming permission matters founding in another country
This is about starting elsewhere and not in the country one lives in. The reason is that there are countries that appear as a better starting place than the country I live in; livelier, more open ...
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App pre-sell strategy [closed]
I am developing a niche social networking app for the iPhone.
I have an eMail list of about 45000 (Facebook users) and I plan on building a slightly more targeted list of about 2000 users. I will ...
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Solving the Chicken and Egg Problem
My partner and I are in the development phase of a website which essentially is a new marketplace for a sector that we believe is lacking one.
However most of our resources are going for design and ...
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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 is the optimum time to launch a landing page?
I've seen a gap in a niche for a SaaS product that I know that there will be a demand for. I'm currently working on developing my MVP to launch as soon as possible and am wondering when the best time ...
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What defines a good product launch?
I have a product that I am ready to launch. What are the absolute critical processes to go through to launch the product properly? What events should definitely happen? E.g. online launch, website, ...
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Sell a product that has not been released
I am going to be on a radio show with almost a million listeners for an interview about my product. I have a free product now, but I am soon releasing my freemium business model. I want the users that ...
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Full Service Beta Launch, or Stripped Teaser?
I'm developing a search engine of sorts that will [eventually] have a myriad of features. In its current state, it is very capable of performing the most important function of all: intelligent ...
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Best Place to Get Good Constructive Feedback on New Site
Where is the best place to get some good constructive feedback for a site we just launched? Is that a place like this one or a different medium? Any input would be appreciated.
Thank You!
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Release or wait for data to be available?
We are planning to launch a web site for real estate ads. Actually, it's a web site where real estate agents can post properties(houses, flat, land) to sell or to rent.
Then other people can look for ...
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1-man show, coder/marketing/everything else… 10 months in the making, too long?
As a 1-man show I've been building a social startup for the last 10 months. A lot of the time on development has been spent learning a new programming language (Ruby on Rails) and also all the other ...
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When is the good time to quit the dayjob and start full time on startup?
I am recently passed out college graduate. Currently working in a mnc for full time job and also with couple of friends working a web based product during extra hours. We are expecting to complete the ...
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How impactful can a city be to a startup?
On a website like groupon were it is centrilized (location based) how impactful and important is the first location the website is launched?
Meaning if an app (again like groupon) launches in ...
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Determining “Critical Mass” for a Web Application
I'm in the process of building a web application that will need a healthy user base from day one to be successful (similar to a stackexchange site).
I'm already taking signups but I'm curious how ...
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How to market a software during minimum viable product stage?
I'm about to launch my product. I'm currently preparing the website, documentation, e-commerce integration and so on.
It lacks features that will be added in the next few months that will allow it ...
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How to go from private into public beta?
I'm currently having an app in private beta and I'm now ready to launch it.
Should I just make it available on my website or should I seek out for a blog that announces the launch to get some media ...
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How do I identify the right bloggers to pitch a social network to?
I'm the founder of an interests based social network. A well known advice for promoting a startup launch says I should identify key bloggers, and introduce my startup to targeted early adopters.
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Making a video for promoting the webapp/Startup [closed]
These days most webapps/web startups have really attractive videos about their "about to launch" or launched startups highlighting the features of it. Are there any web services or companies that make ...
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Are press releases a good idea for a bootstrapped company when launching a product?
I never hear much about this. Would it possibly get my business and product some press? Are they cost effective?
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Startups with ASP.Net MVC 3 and MS SQL
We were thinking of starting a Web Startup using the technologies C#,Asp.Net MVC 3 and Sqlserver. We have heard a lot of talk about "cost" when it comes to using Microsoft technologies for a startup ...
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When to give up on a product?
I'm getting ahead of myself here because my product hasn't launched yet, but I thought about this and would appreciate the thoughts of this community:
Imagine this:
You're launching a great app (or ...
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Business Plan Timeline with regards to Start Date / Launch Date
I'm pretty sure I know whats the answer, would like another opinion.
I am using generic time values in my business plan (M1, Y1). I want to know the proper way of displaying my sales forecast. Should ...
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How can I get initial users for my website?
We have a website that's just about to be released. We did a limited beta release (friends, family) and some light advertising with Google Adwords (very small budget- about $200).
The ad campaign ...
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It's ok to launch a software product when Beta testing is not fully finished?
I'm having trouble finishing the Beta testing period of my software product.
In particular it hangs/crashes in some laptops with low to moderate memory and speed capabilities.
This problem is hard to ...
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How to Resolve a classic Chicken and Egg Dilemma?
My team and I are facing the classic Chicken/Egg dilemma and need help resolving this issue. So here we go: We built a highly scalable, dynamic Career site 100% dedicated to to the IT Industry and ...
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How to market a website where developers can buy and sell source code?
I've developed iPhone and Mac applications in the past, with reasonable success. Back then, Apple would take care of the distribution, and sales were pretty constant.
I just launched a website where ...
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To stealth or not to stealth?
I'm currently working on a startup in stealth mode.
Right now we have a pre-launch page with our tag ine. But I feel like I should redesign to give further explanation of what we are doing in order to ...
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Is this e-commerce launch promotion a winner or loser?
I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?
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How does a a online community gain initial users prior to launch?
Web startups with the theme of a "community" as in let's say a Match.com, a roommate finding service or even this site for that matter....my question is how do they gain their initial users? I am ...
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How to create a BUZZ few weeks before launching your website?
We had planned not to market our website that goes live in 8 weeks, but now going for the opposite. So we are building a website where users sign up and interact on the basis of XYZ (apologies for not ...
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Increasing users for dating website
I've been experimenting with certain ways to improve the number of users for my social dating website, and since the daily user count is so low, even the approach for any experiment is almost ...
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Launching as free beta, then eventually making some features premium-only
For the launch, we're thinking of including all the eventual premium features at no cost, referring to the launch as a public beta. Eventually, once traffic picks up, we would put up a notice saying ...
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Is it a bad idea to launch a startup in August?
We have a service that will be ready to launch in 2 weeks.
Is it a bad idea to launch it in August? Should we wait until September?
The fact is the service is ready, and I don't like the idea of ...
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Is it normal to lose optimism when getting feedback on a project?
I've been working on a web app for 4 months, and did some usability testing with about 10 people today, with mixed results.
Some people said they hated my design, others had no comment about it, ...
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How to properly estimate the cost and necessary income for a new SAAS project?
I will launch a new SAAS (software as service) invoicing app for the iPad. This is in late-stage development.
My startup is small, and I want a clear picture on the cost of the project, and correctly ...
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Revenue / user growth projection for UGC-social-startup business plan
I have to write a business plan and I'm stuck on the revenue and business projection part.
We're building a platform that is all about user-generated-content concerning a certain topic. It also has a ...
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startup service design - launch early with mediocre design or later with “perfect” design?
Have a look at the following layouts for some well known services:
http://www.syncplicity.com/
http://gowalla.com/
http://foursquare.com/
http://www.mint.com/026d/
https://cheddargetter.com/
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How should I promote an SDK / Service?
I developed a new service for iPhone developers which allows them to ask quick questions from their users and get rapid feedback.
The product is now in beta (which means it's already finished and ...
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Should I get an MBA first, or launch our software to the global market now?
Basically we created a small company a few years ago, and part of our venture is that we created this software which is really easy to use, but it currently exists only in our local language. There is ...
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Idea: Go free first, then start charging customers
My primary aim is to get as much publicity as I can get.
Would it be a good strategy to go all free when you first launch your product and then turn it into a paid service couple of months later?
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how to make the right connections?
I have recently left my job as a healthcare desktop/network technician, and started my own company. I want to leverage my knowledge and expertise in healthcare and the applications/networks. SO I want ...
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landing page for sign up process for end user x 2 types (s)
The simplest / minimalist sign up processes is usually the best for the end user. Can you provide some examples.
I need to create a sign up process for 2 types of end users, similar to a job site. ...
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Are There Any Internet-based Regular Startup Hackathons?
Like most of you, I have some good start-up ideas I feel are both good and easily realizable. Of course, I have plenty of 'real' work to do for more mature projects, so I have difficulty convincing ...
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How do you get your Startup featured on national television news?
I am wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get your startup featured on TV?
I have had some success getting written about on some blogs, but nothing that non startup / tech people would see.
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Should we tag our new website as 'beta'?
What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to use ...
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What makes customers jump ship?
There is Company X online that provides a service for its visitors - and though they currently have the monopoly and have for the past 10 years, the quality of their service is not so great and ...
