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Crowdsource Market Research
I have an idea for a business and would like to test the brand name. The business will be related to Crowdfunding and to that aim i would like crowd involvement in every aspect of the business where ...
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Just Released First App… Promotion Help
I am relatively new to programming. I have been programming with Java and Android for about 2 years now and just recently released my first app to the Google Play app store.
I have passed the word on ...
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How do you indentify what type of adoptor a person is?
Looking at how someone uses an existing products/services, is there a way to tell what sort of adopter they are in the adoption curve for a new market? If so how, and what is the source for this ...
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Does 20,000 free downloads mean at least 10,000 paid sales?
I have found certain shareware software products have large number of downloads. My question is if there are some 20,000 free downloads, how many of the downloaders would have actually bought and ...
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A few technical, non-sales guys would like to know "Where to start from ?'
We have an idea and a proof of concept, the idea is pretty specific to stealthy debuggin and binary code analysis .
The problem is that we are pure technical guys,
we don't know the market and ...
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Should we test with the local market first?
Let's say I have a start up whose product is finished (high quality product).
What do you think about first beta testing the product on the local market or going international right away?
I have an ...
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How to tap an existing market?
I've built a site to review & rate beers. It needs some further work & improvements, but I got it out the door. Better to release than to polish to perfection.
There are a number of existing ...
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How Can I Promote my Translator Android App?
I recently created an Android App. It translates thousands of frequently used words from each language.
When I started learning Dutch with a friend of mine, he suggested it would be great to have an ...
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How to determine fees to charge sellers on marketplace?
I'm working on building a fee structure for a website marketplace that allows buyers to purchase frrom third party sellers. Similar to ebay... So I must charge sellers a fee for their final value ...
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Is SMB a more difficult market to target than other segments?
I'm currently in the process of building a business of my own based on selling an enterprise software. My product can be seen as a general purpose enterprise tool but I could also make it specific if ...
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How do I find out how big the market is?
I see it come up over and over again, like this is a 2$ billion market, we are in a 3$ billion market, etc...
Where do you find this data? I've been searching and it's really hard to google something ...
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What are the most profitable software niches?
I am looking to develop a software product as a side project, and I want to target a specific niche to lower the customer acquisition costs.
I couldn't find relevant results on Google -does anyone ...
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how to describe and market web applications creation service to Internet newbies
I am a web applications programmer and having created web applications for education, health and private investigations industries and seeing the value in doing this, I feel I am ready to start my own ...
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Strategy to raise money for smaller market size
We have a niche business for a particular industry but with very good domain expertise and traction.
We have a few hundred enterprise customers and over 10 paying enterprise customers after just a few ...
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What does “route to market” mean?
I am new to being an entrepreneur and still pretty young. I was asked what my 'route to market' is.
What is the definition of this? Is it how I bring my product to a point of a sale?
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Should the time devoted to development be proportional to the market share?
Should the time spent on developing a new software product be proportional to the market share of the platform? For example, if Android is 50% of the market share and Apple is 25%, then for every 2 ...
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How to make revenue and user acquisition projections for product which is not launched yet?
How can you make revenue and user acquisition projections before launching your product?
And are they worth anything?
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How Do I Define and Research a Market and Estimate Market Share
Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.
In this question and answer, we will discuss place, which ...
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Where to find Market Data?
Is there a particular place with, or a particular technique to use for finding different kinds of market data?
For instance, I want to look up what research has been done on internal communications ...
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What is the ideal niche market size for a one man startup to get started?
I have just read the book Start small, stay small by Rob Walling. In this book, he suggested a couple of method of find a niche market to develop products for. From that, I am currently researching ...
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Calculating a company's market share without data?
I am working on a start-up, about a software programme, in the Augmented Reality industry and I have no clue about the number of sales of competitors or about their overall profit, so that I can ...
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What is the canonical answer to “If we can get only x% of this y$ market” where x is a very small number and y a very big one?
One often sees business plans or pitches along the lines of "yeah we're going after a well-entrenched market, but it's a very big one and we need to get only x% of it to be profitable" where x is ...
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How to earn incentive on my website?
I have a website named Digital Flicks and its a website on most of the Web technology updates. Now the problem I have is that I want to monetize the website soon. I want to know some Ad Publishing ...
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Where can I find a list of software products that make significant revenue?
I am researching startup opportunities for software products (not web apps). I am especially interested to find software products that cost between 100$ and 1000$ and which make a significant revenue ...
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What are the major current trends in the traditional retailing industry?
Now after the internet has taken over a substantial part of shopping, I am interested to know the current trends in the traditional retailing industry. How is it adapting to compete with mature online ...
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Which target market should I choose for my business simulation game?
I'm working on a startup idea that teaches individuals about entrepreneurship through video game simulation, kind of like The Sims open for business but for startups.
I keep going back and forth on ...
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Gambling vs. gaming?
I got interested in business models involving prediction markets and I am wondering at which point such a thing is considered gambling.
Here are the cornerstones:
it's a prediction market, i.e. ...
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How can a startup market a product without own marketing team?
We have set up a start up. Its being surviving for last 10 months. We are planning to launch an mobile app soon. But our worry is that we don't have a marketing team. We cannot afford to have a team ...
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How to write a program for Forex market? [closed]
My boss has a jewelry workshop and because of his job he must keep a large money in his account (as some kind of insurance and guarranty for other companies). Recently he heard of trading using ...
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Suggestions needed: techniques to reach out to target clients(businesses) in India for validating a business idea
I am looking to reach out to my prospective clients (mostly restaurants) in India, more fore evaluating the idea itself and getting answers to some questions. The clients are not very technology savvy ...
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What would you spend 15 minutes a day of “Social Media” on?
I work in the B2B market. Many of our clients are owned and managed by the entrepreneur or owner. These are not high-tech companies. They make things, they manufacture, they develop, they produce and ...
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How much do market research firms charge?
We need to determine if there's a market for our new idea. Has anyone ever used a market research firm to determine that before? How much do they charge?
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what are the legal/tax issues for running a marketplace with split revenue with the sellers?
I'm working on an online store where sellers will be posting their digital content, and buyers will buy it. Right now I'm thinking of just doing a 50/50 split of the sell price. The store is no where ...
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Is there a company that you can turn over your web site and let it run the biz for you and split the profit?
We spent quite a bit of money and time building a great IT career Site.
In the meantime, another opportunity that's more lucrative with less competition came up.
So we are looking to have the Career ...
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What's an agile way to conduct market gap analysis to determine an underserved niche?
I've seen this question (http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/17173/how-do-you-find-a-gap-in-the-market) and like the thinking but don't think the answers mention traditional market gap analysis.
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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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How many women purchase an item online every month by age group?
Hey everyone... i have been spending the past 30 minutes trying to find real statistics from any time in the past three years.
I am simply trying to find a breakdown by age group of female shoppers ...
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How do I estimate historic traffic for a website?
I am estimating the market size for a web business in a specific niche. To do this the first step is to estimate the current and historic traffic for each of the existing websites in the niche.
I ...
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Any local resources to obtain market research papers?
I own a startup software company and I need access to couple of papers which were published by an independent firm called datamonitor. Its market research papers and was recently released.
I am ...
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Peer to peer marketplace payments
I am in the process of setting up a peer to peer marketplace. I would like to allow buyers to pay directly with credit card, and sellers to receive batch payments into their checking account directly ...
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When should we start on a new base?
we have recently launched a Beta version of our site. This version is currently online in public Beta, but the concept has evolved and change and our developer are about to implement those changes. ...
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Seeking sales and marketing stakeholder
StreamingCulture, a venture that I am involved with is looking for a stakeholder with sales and marketing experience. Our mission is to help nonprofit institutions (focusing for now on performing arts ...
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When to target a new platform?
I tend not to treat new platforms as serious or viable business opportunities.
My reasoning goes like this...
Selling $1 apps in the crowded IPhone app store - unlikely to be any ROI there...
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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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What happens when an industry doesn't exist for your product?
What happens when you made a product for an industry that doesn't exist? I mean it sells, it makes revenue but the industry cannot be defined.
Is this a bad sign or a good sign?
