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How to analyse products to sell online to make the most profit?
As a developer myself, I've set up an e-commerce website in England and hired 2 people to help me package and invoice etc..
In terms of choosing the right and most profitable products to sell what ...
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Is building a better product good enough?
By building a better product I mean taking what is an existing product area that sucks and making what you believe is up to modern technology standards in terms of UX and deployment model (say web and ...
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Given several similar product ideas, how do you decide which to develop?
For the past couple of weeks, I've been working on a couple products in the event/ticketing market. I need to buckle down and focus on one specific area, and I'm having trouble deciding which. Let me ...
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What is a standard practice decision model for a new parent company?
I've been working for a few years in a small IT consulting company. Recently, I came up with an idea for a software product (unrelated to the company's core business), presented it to the board, and ...
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How do you decide if your product is a “must have”?
How do you know if your product is a "Must have" or a "Nice to have"?
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What is the procedure for selecting a product distributor overseas?
I have a fairly new product that is getting some good exposure. I have recently received emails from people in other countries with inquiries to becoming a distributor or franchisee. For one, how can ...
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How feasible is a business model that sells fan T-shirts / cups for a small website?
I was trying to understand the concept of the business model of Kingdom Of Loathing
They were doing stuff like selling T-shirts and cups, so basically I was wondering what are the benefits for going ...
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How to decide whether an idea is worth pursuing?
You have a business idea, how do you decide whether it's worth pursuing?
i.e, say you plan to provide a SaaS service to users (which you think would be very useful for people), how do you know that do ...
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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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What to focus on when pitching, product or underlying platform?
I'm working on launching a startup based on a new computing platform developed by my co-founders. The platform itself is very powerful and flexible, and we envision it being used as a foundation for ...
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Your experiences outsourcing product fulfillment?
I am looking for feedback from people who outsource their product fulfillment on the pros and cons of their service providers! I think the information will be helpful to the community. What should ...
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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? ...
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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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Starting New School Revenue Streams
Hey guys, it's me again. As was to be expected, I've run into funding problems with Idea School.
The quality teachers I'm looking for are worth about $50-60K per year. Now, of course, they ...
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What's the best tool for keeping track of inventory
I have all one-of-a-kind inventory, and I am struggling to keep track of it. I currently use an excel spread sheet, and have long descriptions of each item and I have about 300 items. Once I expand ...
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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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What is product/IP startup?
Can some one help me understand about what is "Product/IP" Start up. What is that required for company to become a IP Startup? I mean officially or recordically what all we need to do to get to become ...
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Evergreen dilemma : Product Company vs Service Company
From the title itself some of you might have guesses the question. Yes it is an ever green dilemma of entrepreneurs especially in our field. Of course I am not an exception here.
I run an IT service ...
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How generic a product name can be?
Let's say I created a software that automates the creation of Joomla CMS templates (this is just an example, I'm not into that). I manage to buy the domain name joomlatemplate.com. Great. But what ...
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I need to sell a product with my friend who funded the hardware costs, I funded the software costs
An old friend of mine suggested that I develop a piece of software so we can sell it. He has the contacts, and I am technical with no contacts. I have now finished the project, and he now needs to ...
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Customers feel good / hate about your products or services is better than no feeling?
I was watching a slide from a very successful entrepreneurial, in which his argument about users feel about products totally surprised me. Here is his idea:
How users feel about your products and ...
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Revenue sharing in Software Product Collaboration
My friend and I are planning to collaborate in developing a mobile application. We are on to the discussions on the revenue sharing. Following are details to be considered.
My friend is the owner ...
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Outsourcing “product development” for Tech startups
what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing "product development" eg new social media website project?
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Isn't there a standard for categorizing products and services?
I am building a database of products (and services) and need to put similar items in the same category. That's got to be a common need, and I don't want to recreate the wheel.
For example, a ...
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Rev Share Models for Product Development
What is a common Rev Share model? We are starting a new product and have a limited budget for development. Is there a standard/recommended formula for determining "share value" that we can use to ...
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What is the simplest way to state the importance of finding a solution to a problem as a business model?
I've often heard the maxim "solve a problem" as the fundamental insight into creating a value-providing business. I was hoping someone could elaborate on this, but still keep it concise and easy to ...
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Business brand vs Product brand
I'm starting out building my business and plan on only ever having one product. I'm wanting input on the branding of my business and of my product. I see two ways forward. One I brand my business ...
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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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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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I have a new idea for a hardware product, how do I get started?
I have a new idea for a hardware product. Unfortunately, I only have experience with software and would only be able to develop the software side of the product. I have no idea where I would start. ...
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Where and with whom can I do product development?
Assuming I have an idea for an iPhone Gadget like this: Griffin-Simplifi-iPhone-Reader-Aluminum
I am a creative person or a designer. If I want to realize this product to whom do I have to go, to ...
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Where to prototype my patent?
I am looking for a prototyping company for some of my patents. Does anyone know any good but cheap ones, coming out of China? I've browsed on Alibaba.com but I haven't found anything credible. Has ...
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Improvement of existing product
So I have (what I think) is a good improvement for an existing pet product that I use daily. There are also many people who use the same product that I think would like the modification I've thought ...
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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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Best time to launch my software?
Our team has been developing a product which we initially wanted to release in early November. Although we are nearing the final stages, private beta testing is continuing to reveal new and annoying ...
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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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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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Am I Infringing on their trademark?
I have a software program launching in approx three months. Yesterday I found out that the desired name of my software is very similar to another company's software product.
Although the products are ...
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How to acquire new customers/startups?
I’m given a task to expand our Product Engineering services to US, UK & EMEA markets and identify new customers/startups who would like to build new products/software. We do have proven track ...
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Name of product
Hypothetically (don't take the names literally, trying to ask about the concept): let's say you open a fast food chain and call it MacRobert or MacDob ..., you sell junk food but burgers is not your ...
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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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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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Rich Internet Applications - your product strategy
Could someone share your experiences if you have created a rich internet application (Adobe AIR) version of the web application? Or, created a hybrid or lighter version of the web application as a ...
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Should I start talking about my future product, or should I wait till its ready?
I've registered my small consulting company about a year ago and since then we provide consulting and support for several clients, one of which is one of the industry largest organizations in the ...
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At what point do you cut features?
I have a couple of features in my product that are really important but, as it stands, are not fully implemented / designed or integrated.
At what point do I remove them from the product?
I know ...
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First Product Launch - help!
I'm hoping to launch my first product of my first start-up in the month or so (New Year time-frame). Any advice as to how to avoid problems and get it out there quickly, easily and effectively? What ...
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Which pricing model to use for a product that requires a lot of support?
I am developing a product that potentially requires a lot of support. I am developing documentation and tutorials to remove the need for support as much as possible, but I can still see the need for a ...
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Resources or guides to software product pricing
We found product pricing to be the hardest part of launching our product. What resources or guides (online or offline) have you found useful in thinking about pricing your product?
I'm interested ...
