Questions regarding any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers.
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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 important is market research for startups
I work for a startup that is into building speech related applications for mobile phones. We have a number of ideas and want to jump right into product development. Recent developments (I cannot go ...
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How many potential customers should I meet with in order to verify my idea?
I'm working on a new venture with a friend of mine, and we set to meet as many potential customers as possible before writing even a single line of code.
We've met with 2 customers and both of them ...
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How To Find New Problems to Solve or Ideas for Products To Work On?
What is the thought sequence, particuarlly in a new venture that you're thinking about or have already started? Do cool things just randomly pop in your head after whatever things you do through ...
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How do I find my potential customers (B2B business)?
I'm in the middle of building a useful (as I think) SaaS for small e-commerce stores. Before I got too deep into that, I'd like to find out if they are really interested.
In other words, I want to ...
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How to research about an application before doing it?
I am planning to make an application to digitalize and organize documents a company, or forum, etc may have.
The first thing that came to my mind
was about how i should look around
for possible ...
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Frustrating objection to lean startup strategies
I said: "We should build a minimally viable product, push it out and see how the market respond."
Biz partner said: "No, we should build a full featured product and give a good first impression."
I ...
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Does absence of competition put you off?
We're bootstrapping our latest business idea. Everything I've done has been boostrapped. This will be a complete stop and change direction (so could be a total distraction for a month while we ...
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Market validation for expensive, enterprise software
I have a working prototype for an enterprise software. It is basically a very niche product catering a subset of the engineering firm. Now, what I need, is to validate the market as soon and as ...
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Where to distribute survey to prove idea viability?
I tried Mturk but not enough willing participants in english speaking countries.
And what are some questions I can ask to validate market?
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Researching my market size?
I have an outdoor site that makes money by displaying ads (mostly travel and outdoor gear related) and selling outdoor gear.
I am trying to find some industry statistics on the outdoor gear size, and ...
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Does a process exist for executing a market research?
Is there a good resource (book, blog, etc.) that would explain me step by step how to execute a rigorous market research? Where can I find market data such as market size, market share, etc.?
Any ...
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Tips on where to check if a market is growing?
I would like to know if you guys have any tips on where someone can see for example, how's the wine market doing or the toys market doing world wide or US only.
I have been looking around but I can ...
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How can I encourage participation in a survey?
I am about to do a customer development survey, which will be promoted either via AdWords or via an email campaign (maybe both).
I did a few tests with AdWords ads and it seems like responses level ...
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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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Is my target market big enough?
Background information: I'm looking to start an entrepreneurship. My goal is to generate a net revenue of $4000/month (for example), probably through a SaaS software offering (think GMail).
My ...
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How can I measure my future audience?
Before taking on a project, there is always a question: "How many people will use this?" So how do I measure that "people", at least inaccurate.
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How to get reliable survey results
I would like to survey a community of prospects about a new service we are thinking of developing. A question I would really like answered is "How much would you be willing to pay?" The problem is ...
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Value of anonymized user trend data
I was wondering how to find out how much the user data is worth for a database similar to Foursquare's? I'm not looking to sell personal user information or email addresses, but more along the lines ...
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Unique Visitors to Customer Base corelation
I am researching my competitors before getting into SAAS based software market. For one of the competitors total monthly unique visitors to be 3000. I am calculating roughly 50% of them are ...
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Six Months Into Start-Up - Focus On One Client or Expand Platforms?
I am currently working for a start-up and our first product has been in development for several months. We have reached a fork in the road and I would like to ask the OnStartups community for some ...
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Should I expect sales from an early release?
After doing some game development in my spare time and not being able to find a decent editor for simple 2D animations and spritesheet manipulation, I decided to knock one together. A year later and ...
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How can I check the income of a German company registered as GmbH (Limited Liability)?
In many countries, the income of companies is public and accessible. My question is whether this is correct also for Germany, and where I could look up such information?
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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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App usage statistics
If I want to start a new website, the first thing I do is check out the competition to see both what they are doing and how much traffic they are generating. I would normally use a site like ...
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Research if patent holder is a troll
I've recently discovered a patent for a product that's in the field of the product I'm working on. The patent itself has zero direct resemblance to the product I'm working on, but there are "early ...
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Researching competition that is under-cutting the market
Scenario:
I'm in the market research stage of my startup (manufacturing), and when researching my competition I noticed one company who is able to provide similar goods to what I plan to sell at a ...
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How to find the market size, expected revenue etc. for any start up idea? for eg market size of online flash banner creator websites
I have seen many website which create flash banner ads online and you can directly download the customized flash banner, thought it is not a new business idea I feel I can add some unique feature to ...
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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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How to find statistics for a sales pitch?
We have developed a system that lets small businesses issue membership cards to their clients which can then be used as payment cards. The clients either preload the card with money or link it with a ...
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Help discovering a niche
I, like a lot of developers, would love to start developing my own range of products.
One thing I am wary of is building something that either has no market or where the market is so congested that I ...
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How many people should I get to fill out my survey?
I'm trying to do things the proper, "lean" way by looking to survey potential users/customers so I can develop a product people want. The survey is out, but how do I know when I have sufficient data? ...
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Market Size of Social Networks
Obviously determining Market Size is a vital step in starting a business. With ecommerce or the sale of a product it seems to be a much more concrete process. On that note, does anyone have any advice ...
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How can I estimate the cost of moving one ton of earth one kilometer?
I am early in the process of making a radical invention of equipment for moving earth. At the moment I am having trouble estimating the cost of moving one ton of earth one kilometer in a setting where ...
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What is the best way to see data on all the websites referring traffic to a competitors site?
www.Compete.com
www.Alexa.com
Are there other valuable sources I am missing? I would like to avoid a 499/month subscription to see data about the sites referring traffic to a specific URL, however I ...
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How to find Subject Matter Experts
Short question: How can find Subject Matter Experts to validate a software product?
Details:
I am almost finishing my software product for a specific market segment and planning on my private BETA ...
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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 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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Blog that covers Social Media tools and Social Media analysis
I'm familiar with Mashable.com, but what I'm looking for is a blog or site that just covers social media tools. By tools I'm referring to things that help you analyze the social web. Below are some ...
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How to approach people when conducting a market survey?
I am trying to conduct a market survey, using it to gauge the experiences of people who visit a very old open-air market and what improvements they would like to see. This place is pretty popular ...
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Market sizing for Angels
pretty high-level question here that might be too general: is there a minimum market size that a typical angel would be interested in investing in? I've heard that a typical VC wants to see a $100M ...
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Estimating market size when creating a new market
How would a startup that intends to provide a brand new type of service quantify the market potential without spending a lot of money on legitimate survey research? Or without rolling out the product ...
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What tools to use to predict future market trends for SMB?
What tools do you use to predict future market trends when running small business ?
Tools I am trying to use are, for example:
Google Insights
data analysis that could be learned from blogs such ...
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What are android sales numbers?
As part of making a business case I'm trying to gather data for Android phone sales (quantity and dollar value) by continent. I was initially hoping this would be something that Google could provide ...
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How can I figure out the market size for a mobile app (and then calculate how much money I'd make)?
I have an idea for a VoIP mobile app on Android that would provide some advanced technical features not currently available (i.e. better encryption, firewall traversal, etc.) The problem I have is no ...
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How does one qualify niche markets?
I'm a generalist trying to do more specialized freelancing and finding it very difficult. I have a few ideas for niche markets to target but I can't tell which one would be the most viable. I'm ...
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Evaluating competitors assets
I'm curious to know how most go about gathering information regarding their competitors? I am interested in developing an application that would directly compete with numerous websites and I am having ...
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Where to do research on small to mid-sized companies?
Where does one do research on small to mid-sized companies (e.g., prior to making a sales call for instance)?
Besides their own website, twitter feed, or other content generated by them, where else ...
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Qualities Your Web design & Internet Marketing Company Must Have
Everyone want to have a website now but few of them prefer to outsource to companies in India, China etc but few want to get work done in their country, someone nearby.
Do you prefer to outsource to ...
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Prototype or market research first?
I want to start developing (well trying to) my web application. I am not sure if I should start with the market research to find out what features they want or if they even want the app at all. Or ...
