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What would be the right strategy to promote a startup in India?
We have a rating based social blogging platform. The webiste got launched about a month ago and is in its beta stage now. Being established in India, where the domain of users of the site, the readers ...
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Open Source Forum platforms [closed]
I have need for a Facebook type application that can be extended to present news and then encourage community members to comment on it.
Could anyone recommend a platform, ideally not PHP based? Is ...
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Which strategy will you use for launching a dating community website?
Imagine a dating community like meetic, where you can register for free, but you must pay every 6 months for using all the functionalities. Which will be your strategy for your launch, taking into ...
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How to direct marketing initiatives for a Start up
We are a location based social network connecting like minded people. We are ready with our product and want to select a city to start marketing. Basic costs touch upto $5k a month just for marketing. ...
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Is there any point in making another social network? [closed]
I have an idea for a social network and I think it is quite unique and very different from facebook or twitter, but it is still a social network and it focuses everyone and not just one niche.
I've ...
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How to promote my social project?
I have created a social media website - it's a place for men who have questions about relationships. The main goal is to make users proud of their own achievements. For example, your son has graduated ...
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Is moving an established, central online community to 100% distributed a bad idea?
I run a community for pug owners. It's been around for nearly 7 years and it's a "popular" site within the pug community.
It's a completely custom site (I built the whole thing from scratch...didn't ...
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Should company A have different social network identities for each service/website?
Let's say company A produces various online services that fill different needs. Do you think they should have a separate Twitter/Facebook fan page for each service? Or should there just be one main ...
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How to generate revenue from a website using visitor counts? Is there a standard way for doing it?
I want to build a web application that would showcase realestate properties of different owners. One way to generate revenue from this is charging for their property posting and for featured posting? ...
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Promoting sub-communities of a social website?
I'm currently working on a social website that bases itself on specific sub-communities (something along the lines of Reddit meets Pintrest for lack of a better description). What are some effective ...
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Startup social network free sites to promote on / free ways of promotion
Hey so I am wondering about methods of promoting a social netowork that I made.
Starting up a site and getting traffic is not as easy as it might seem. It would be nice to know how to get some ...
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Where to promote a travelers network site?
We created a site which aims to be a community of travelers sharing "off-the-beaten" track spots around the world with other travelers. We went live a month ago, we have about 150 users, 500 spots ...
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Promoting startup on Google+
I'm just getting started with promoting my startup in Google+, and am looking for suggestions on the best way to do this.
I can post to Google+ as (1) the "page" for the startup or as (2) my email ...
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Fake Linkedin profiles
What can you do if random person lists your company on their linkedin?
Emailed linkedin support but they won't do anything and the person won't respond.
it is damaging our reputation
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Third party social network client monetization
Let's say I have discovered that on an "about-to-go-booming" platform there isn't a social network client (A Facebook client for example). I can create one and submit to the platforms application ...
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Startup Documentaries for IT industry
I am looking for more startup documentaries/movies. The ones I have seen:
On Startups
E-Dreams
Startup dot com and its follow up ABC News UpClose Kaleil Tuzman
The Social Network
On PC industry
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Community Manager - marketer, product person, support? And where does Social Networking fit in the mix?
I'm frequently involved in debates about the skillset that best embodies a successful online community manager.
How do you define their responsibility and what experiences are most valuable therein?
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Current best practices for blogging
I'm getting ready to start posting on my blog that I've neglected for a while.
I'm interested in hearing what are the best practices in terms of the mechanics, not the content of the blog. I've ...
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Stuck in the middle on a start-up venture
My co-founder and I have invested $50k together and launched phase 1 of our social network website. We have started marketing in NY metro and have grown to 300 users in 4 weeks. We are in the process ...
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Should I have a “presence” on Facebook & Twitter & Google+?
I have a habit of registering my own name on social sites, just to ensure that nobody impersonates me. Now, starting a business, I am doing the same with the business name and the product name:
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Next steps after launching a social network
So my co-founder and I spent 10 months and launched a social network 2 weeks ago. We are doing simple fb ads and craigslist advertising and have reached 200 users. As anyone will say, our idea is ...
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I want to start a social network company but I know nothing about programing
I have some ideas for a social network and really want to start a company. But I don't know how to program.
Should I learn or just find a technical partner? I know founders of tech giants like ...
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Extending my social network into new city while retaining my current network [closed]
In the next few years I might want to move to a new city with my wife. However there are two problems here: 1) I have developed a pretty decent social network here in my current city and I don't want ...
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Monetizing sites similar to deviantART
How does a website like deviantART make money? They allow users to create free accounts and upload data for free. I heard some venture capitalists invest in such websites but how can one capitalize ...
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When can I start using CrowdSource Funding?
Now that the JOBS Act has been passed and signed when can I start raising capital through CrowdSource Funding?
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What social media accounts should a business have?
I know this question has a lot of possible answers, so I'll break it down to several questions so you'll understand exactly what I want to know.
Which social media accounts should I maintain to help ...
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Compensation for employee participation on internal community site
I run a site which relies on an internal social network for communication between teachers and students. Most updates to the news feed (think Facebook status update) are students posting their updates ...
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How do I judge if my online community is growing fast enough?
My partner and I started our own Q&A community for filmmakers. I realize this kind of community is not gigantic but there are a lot of sites out there servicing the needs of this type of ...
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How to create a BUZZ few weeks before launching your website?
We had planned not to market our website that goes live in 8 weeks, but now going for the opposite. So we are building a website where users sign up and interact on the basis of XYZ (apologies for not ...
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resources and numbers on “premium members” paying for services on social media nice websites?
Are there any resources on social media related websites, on the number of paying members? Or are there any rules you can use to calculate the number of users that will pay of a userbase count?
Im ...
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Marketing my website
I have a website which aims to let people meet and talk together based on subjects they are interested in.
However I am having trouble marketing it! I admit that I am not a marketer guy, so if you can ...
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Startup ideas: social networks aimed at specific interest groups [closed]
A startup idea has recently crept into my head which is basically a social networking site aimed at a specific interest group.
The rough concept would be a somewhat cut down version of facebook, but ...
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What is the implication of Google Panda on a blog?
What is the implication of Google Panda release on my clients who are "outsourcing" scontent creation for their blogs?
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How to promote my business using social networking
I see many companies using social networking (Twitter, Facebook etc) to promote their products and services. I've never used sites like this, and don't really know where to begin from a marketing ...
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What is the best way to make my site known worldwide, not just locally?
My problem is that while I'm targeting the whole world, since this is a Greek startup, the majority of the users that sign up are Greek. The result is that they post in Greek. Later when the site gets ...
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Web software platform for skill sharing
I was hoping to use opensource stack exchange software to create a site where people can swap their skills. ie: if I can fix your computer and you can fix my car, we will be matched.
However, the ...
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Measuring the benefit of internet marketing specialist
Being in the last stages of completing the development of a video based social network, my partners and I have interviewed a few internet marketing specialists for promoting us.
After receiving ...
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Canonical answer needed: What are the legal issues for social network startups
I'm currently building a social networking site (as are droves of other startups) and I was looking for some experienced input on the legal issues that need to be taken into account.
Examples:
A ...
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Co-founder required - cut your own deal [closed]
I'm taking my first few steps in attracting a co-founder. With all the questions, comments and advice I've read concerning attracting a co-founder comes down to integrity...thee most important ...
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What is the best strategy/events to launch a startup?
We are having a startup in social and location based networking space.
We are currently in private beta.
What will be the best strategy or events to launch the product?
Thanks!
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location-based social network (foursquare)
I'm interested in how a company like Foursquare would start up. So let's pretend they are at the very beginning of their idea and they have no money; just the idea. So they write down their business ...
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Good startups resources on Europe? [closed]
I'm looking to expand my network in Europe. I have a good set of US-based sources that enable me to stay updated and in the loop about startups, funding and the sort of things I'm interested in as a ...
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Social Network Idea
I have an idea of a social network site. I think that technically I can make this idea as a facebook application, but commercially speaking, what are the disadvantages and the advantages of doing it ...
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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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Patent on Social Network
I have an idea for a social network site. I know Facebook has many patents and I'm afraid of violating one of some of them. I'm not located in the US, main questions:
Do you think I should talk with ...
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What about finding a technical co-founder overseas and invite him over to my country?
Here's the case. I have great ideas about starting a social networking company, but I am not a programmer. So I need to find a technical co-founder first, I mean a really awesome ass-kicking ...
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How do you assess the trustworthiness of a contact?
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My startup is relying heavily on contacts, which I trust. If I improved my way of assessing whether a new contact is trustworthy or not, I believe my startup would be more successful. ...
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What social media information or solution do you miss?
I am looking into building a social media tool and would be curious to know what the entrepreneurs here are missing.
Is there one information (raw data, aggregated data, chart, etc) that would help ...
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What lessons can we learn about running a software company from Facebook's triumph over MySpace?
At one point MySpace was THE winner in social networks, but over the span of just a few years lost out to Facebook. Why did this happen? And what lessons can we learn for our own companies?
I am not ...
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Creative or unusal ways to get new members to a dating site?
I have a dating site that's been live for several months now and more users have come in through my Google AdWords campaigns. I'm trying to find a way push the growth a little faster without spending ...
