Questions regarding any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers.
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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 ...
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How should I start building a social network site?
Early I asked a question about starting a social network company. Thanks for people who answered my question.
I learned that I might implement the ideas first then start a company.
But how ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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How much does a SaaS customer support cost on average?
For subscription-based B2C SaaS businesses where the business is not charge for the support, but for the subscription. How much does on average customer/visitor support account to?
In other words, ...
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Determining Feasability of Information Product
Having just been recently laid off, I would like to give some attention to an idea that's been incubating in my mind for a while for an information-based product. This is similar to the model of ...
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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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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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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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Deciding how broad or narrow a market to aim for
When you're not sure which market is worth aiming for, how do you figure out whether to go for a broad market (with lots of competition) or a narrow one (with no competition but good chance to slip by ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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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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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Can anyone recommend a company that hosts or sells landing page templates?
I am looking to do some A/B tests using landing pages but I am not a designer.
Do you know of a company that sells or offers hosted landing pages at a reasonable price?
I have looked at ...
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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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How to do marketing research for blog printing service?
I am working on the service which allows blog owners to distribute their content in a printer form by regular mail. Every blog reader will be able to subscribe to his favorite blogs and receive it as ...
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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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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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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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Restaurant reservation and wait list management web based service
I need a little help here I have approached few restaurants in my area (India) and most of them told me it's good but most of them don't have access to internet in their restaurants..
Would like to ...
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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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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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Units sold data on Iphone apps? Where do I find it?
I researching the number of units sold of four particular Iphone apps. Any body know where I can find this information?
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Sources of industry and benchmark information (free or inexpensive) [closed]
What are some of the best free (or almost free) sources of updated and historical industry data, analysis, and comparative benchmark information?
For example: Restaruant industry average food and ...
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I want to enter the parents control market what do you think? [closed]
Hello all
as father to kids and after seeing kids surfing the internet and there parents trying to monitor this
it made me wander about the parents control market especially the desktop application ...
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Any tools for (online) market analysis : alternatives to DoubleClick Ad Planner? [closed]
I am looking to find a list of websites in my space (online clothing retail)
The only tool I have at the moment which allows me to filter websites by category and list by a number of paramters such ...
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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 engage customer visionaries?
What is the best way to get experts opinion on your ideas?
The niche is relatively small. Enthusiastic experts are difficult to find. To get their time to review your ideas is even more difficult.
I ...
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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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Is there a resource where I can paste a URL and find out what states that URL's audience is from?
Lets say I have a website link: www._.com
Is there a way to paste this URL in a resource where that resource will give me a geographic breakdown of where the visitors are from? For example, I have a ...
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How do I find out which blogs/websites are visited by a certain region?
I am developing an online marketing campaign for a local start up in Long Island, New York. I would like to find websites and blogs that are predominately visited by the Long Island community.
Is ...
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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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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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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 ...
