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Commercial product name similar to open source product name
I have a commercial software product that will be launching soon.
It has a very similar name to a piece of open source software in a non-English speaking country. The only difference is a space.
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Product Positioning-Large or Small customer focus
We are a software startup and trying to solve a unique problem, which is applicable for both small and large organizations. Is there any recommendation in positioning the product for smaller or large ...
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How to find a Software Product Partner [closed]
We are into Human Resource Management Solutions (HRMS) Software since last 4 years and have done pretty well in the domestic market . We have our own Web Based solutions with 20+ modules in it with ...
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How to go about doing market research
We are looking at developing a new product but want to get the market research right first up.
It's a time keeping application with some secret sauce.
We have brain stormed a range of vertical ...
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Product reached alpha stage but potential customer left
Initially a potential customer asked us whether we can design product X with features ABC.
Now, we have built an alpha-stage product. We are ready for a demo of product X with feature ABC, but the ...
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How Do You Go About Defining and Releasing a Product
Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.
For this question and answer, we will tackle your Product ...
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How do you validate new product functionality before building it into your product?
What specific tactics do you use to test a feature set that's planned for an upgrade of a current product?
Focus group
Existing user survey
Interviews
What else?
Tx!
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272 views
Testing a product before making it?
What do You call testing a product before it is made with a 'fake' website, that measures how many people actually click on the 'buy' button?
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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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Enterprise Software Promotion on tucows/softpedia
Does anyone have any experience to promoting enterprise software on download site like tucows/softpedia? Is it worth to try?
I'm looking a site where I can promote my product (enterprise market/web ...
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How do you know your product or service is market ready?
Is there a checklist or some stats that anyone has used that gives a comfort level to getting to a minimum valid product?
I'm a lone startup ISV and find that I need to take extra effort to mistake ...
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online business to retail products to foreign countries from China
I'm in China. I want to create an online shop to retail products to foreign countries. What kind of products can I choose to sell?
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Calculating loaded labor cost for ROI?
I'm curious if any of you calculate 'loaded' labor costs for use in ROI calculations, and what multiplier you use vs the salary.
The 'loaded labor' cost attempts to reflect the true cost of a person ...
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New brand under a DBA for a separate division in the company
We have a new web-based application that is due to launch towards the end of the summer. It has its own domain name, of course, but is really not related to the core of the business or our current ...
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Separate company for an unrelated product
Our main business line (software company) for the past few years has been consumer-based utilities for a very specific platform. We've built a bit of a following in the space, and are known (by folks ...
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271 views
How to attract users for a physical product?
This probably goes along with how to attract customers to a website. But im just curious if anyone knows how to market a product thats available in the physical world and not some web service online?
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Strategies for finding potential customers for a tiny app
Background: I used to work for a software consulting firm. For obvious reasons, one thing that was critical to both our company and our customers was keeping track of the time spent on specific tasks. ...
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How can I best utilize AdWords to test product ideas?
In order to test interest in a product, I've been told that its useful to use AdWords. What's the best way to maximize the usefulness of AdWords. How do I measure whether or not an idea is useful? ...
