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Is it bad to juggle small projects from time to time?
Coming up with ideas for entrepreneurs isn't really a problem. Execution on the other hand, as I have experienced, is by far the hardest thing to keep on top with, especially if you have to keep your ...
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Do startups generally have a specific road map in place?
This question may not belong here, for that I apologize in advance.
I work with my father at his small company that he started. About 5 years ago is when he moved into his first physical location. We ...
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I've just lost my business mind, can't think straight!
Business hasn't been great lately, I've been riddled with problems of my service losing demand, employees not seeing a future and am unable to get new services launched in time because of difficulty ...
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What general terms should be in an agreement to market another company's product?
We are looking at potentially bringing to market a SaaS application from a company outside the U.S. It's a wonderful product that would benefit from our visibility, customer base, expertise, and more. ...
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deciding on priorities for new features
we released a very limited version of our product but it misses lots of functionality.
Our income will be based on retailers and there are certain functionality they will be looking for. And of course ...
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Startup Financial Plan
I need to prepare a financial/cashflow/budget plan for my startup. Can anyone offer suggestions about what items I should include or exclude? Are there any 'templates' available for preparing this ...
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Is it a good idea to launch a start up without a marketing plan?
My friend and I have invested $40-$50 k in a website we are launching in April. We have full time jobs but put all our savings into this project. We are done with the development phase and are ...
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LAN Party : How should I pitch for Sponsorship to big businesses?
We're a LAN Party organizing start-up in India and have organized a few tournaments at the local level before. Now as we plan to move to the next level, i.e., national, we wish to pitch to the bigger ...
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Role of Business Partner While Developer is Developing
So... in a startup... im the techie/developer of the business, my partner is the business side.
While, I'm developing this elaborate application... what should he be doing? What do business people do ...
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When someone should focus on local market or go for the big catch?
Hello there is an old saying that says "you should better be first in your village rather second( or thirth or fourth) in your town".
My question is something that a lot of people think (maybe all) ...
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How to write a business plan with opensource software?
I have a business idea that I want to materialize into a business plan. This is my first attempt ever and I want to accomplish this with some open source tools.
I know I can start typing down my ...
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How to negotiate exclusive deals/offers to my site's members?
I would like to have a directory of companies that have exclusive deals/offers to my site's members (based on vouchers and coupons). So, basically I would have to contact companies and ask them if ...
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Major expenses of a web-based startup?
I have an idea of a social web-app and am seriously consider to have my own startup on that.
So I would like to ask, what are the major expenses of running a web-site?
Specifically, what are the ...
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections?
I'd like to get the information for Groupon or another web 2.0 company to see their revenue, subscriber, traffic, etc. curves for our business plan financial projections. They are a close model to our ...
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Recruit Managers before Junior Execs or other way around?
Have been running a business for a couple of years now but been managing most of the areas of the business myself - web development and marketing - while I have staff who take care of customer ...
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What is the thing that all new startups neglect the most?
There are lots of business books and fields of study that provide advise on starting a new business. They do however seem to be a bit theoretical or vastly outdated. With this I am interested in ...
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Where should I go with just an idea, no capital or product or partners?
I have read the FAQ and hope that I have added enough detail to my question that it will not be considered to vague or open.
I have a great idea for a software product that I think could make a lot ...
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Head count planning for a growing start up - any processes, books, templates?
As a growing start up, we need to plan for new people in every deparment (some of these are just 1 person, but future departments).
So Sales has its plan to double sales this year; meanwhile other ...
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Where to start with Marketing? Need better Internet reach
My company is in a niche with over 11 million potential customers, yet we have a little less than 100k customers currently. Given that we currently spend $0.00 in marketing (we focused on recruiting ...
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online marketing compared
i'm with a startup looking to intensify online marketing.
we want to sell a physical product over the web and are trying to figure out how to invest our time and money in online marketing.
we've ...
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Shopping list of tools and services for new startup
I'm looking for good-value, top-class applications and tools to support a new software startup. What recommendations do you have in the following categories?
Domain name / hosting / website / blog
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Which Delaware LLC package should I purchase?
If I am planning on starting an internet based LLC, which package should I purchase? Economy, Basic, or the Complete Package?
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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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What are the most important personal qualities to start up and succeed in new business
I am a developer, and I've launched and failed once before some time back. I am still analyzing all the reasons our start up didn't take off (we were 4 developers). I wanted to learn from the ...
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Are there any good conference/event planning services?
does anyone know any good services that can help to plan and manage conferences and other type of events? Especially twitter/facebook oriented.
I had to organize a small con recently, and couldn't ...
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How do you produce an accurate financial forecast?
1) Our company is asked to produce a financial forecast, but how do you do this? normally you will use data from similar businesses in the same industry. Ok but how can we do this when our business ...
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Online Marketing Budget & Staff
Is there a rule of thumb that can be used for staff planning in terms of how large % of an online marketing budget that should be allocated towards managing the online marketing activities?
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Goal setting for the new year
Many of us here on the site are owners of small businesses or getting a startup up and running. I'm curious to know what goals people are setting for the new year, and whether or not you spend time ...
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How do you structure/run your company to ensure you maintain control over the finances?
I've repeatedly heard the advice (from successful business owners) to not give up direct control over the company finances. It seems that enough founders out there have been burned by seemingly ...
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How do you determine which online marketing tools/applications to use?
So you want to do marketing for your company. You've created a marketing plan and want to implement it. How do you determine which applications/vendors to use?
For example, for email marketing and ...
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How much sweat equity to financial equity? Different business activities lend to one style easier then the other love your opinions
So bootstrapping is a minimalist approach to financing a business and requires a larger amount of sweat equity compared to the money put in. So when do you find that the sweat part has gone too far ...
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Customer feedback - good or bad?
Interesting post from Mark Cuban titled "why you should NEVER listen to your customer" references an long standing Alan Kay quote "the best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Cuban then goes ...
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OmniPlan as a hosted app?
I'm a huge fan of OmniPlan for my development planning. It lets me set up my tasks, gantt chart them, measure resources, get a rough idea of how long things are going to take, and it's very friendly ...
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What are Advantages and Disadvantages of Pricing Monthly Subscriptions?
I've recently the post on the question: Subscription Pricing Starting Strategy: start high and lower, or start low and raise? , and I also read the articles and comments for:
QuickSprout: Customer ...
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Would you go into business with someone without an agreement in place?
Would you go into business with someone who has asked you to come on board and help to get things launched, but has not yet decided how to compensate you, or whether to give you part ownership of the ...
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System/Advice for LT Goals Yet Allow for Unplanned Opportunities
With the new year approaching, I am working on my 2010 goals and priorities. In the past I used Franklin Planners and Outlook. I also have a Blackberry. I continuously look for ways to help me stay ...
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What's the best process for business planning?
So we're doing really well. Very exciting. Now we can start looking a little further out on our business planning and look for new markets, etc.
What's your process for taking an existing product and ...
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Managing growth in a “private office culture” startup
This question is related to another one, "Ideal office space layout - open or offices?", but I think it's worth a question of its own.
There are many voices advocating that developers have to be in ...
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Ideal office space layout - open or offices?
I have worked in a variety of environments wanted to share my opinions and see what others thought on the subject of ideal office space layout. Once our lease is up (in a few years) I am thinking of ...
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When, and how should I think about getting money out of a free site/service?
How to (slightly) monetize a tiny niche website... when it's free to use?
I'm developing a small niche website to help an airline worker I know solve a problem she faces fairly regularly. It seems ...
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Career Planning as a Startup Engineer?
I'm currently almost 2 years in to my second startup job as a Software Engineer and trying to make longer term career plans.
I'm looking for general resources (books, blogs, experts) on planning out ...
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Example of a freemium business plan?
Do you guys have any examples of business outlines, or slide decks so i could get an example for making one for my startup.
my business model is freemium model
thanks¡
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What are the top 10 'Startup Friendly' States in the U.S.A?
Which state(s) would you relocate to if you were thinking of starting a startup?.
Why do you think those states are 'Startup Friendly'?
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How to do financial planning for family before starting a startup?
How to plan such that family financial are planned? What should be part of plan and what should not?
