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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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How to Build a Strong Social Network for a Young Entrepreneur?
"It's Not What You Know, It's Who You
Know" -Old English Proverb
Having a strong social network is a Must-Have of every entrepreneur. Our friends and partners make us stronger in areas we're ...
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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 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 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 do you assess the trustworthiness of a contact?
Background
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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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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The network effect: your best friend - your worst enemy
The network effect is the thing that makes certain products or services useless until everybody is on board. But once everybody is on board then said product or service becomes very useful.
Case in ...
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How can I find a software developer who can build a SaaS product idea?
I have a great idea for a SaaS product but all my knowledge is in the subject matter not technology. If my social network doesn't have any good contacts how can I find someone trustworthy to work ...
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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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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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Your favorite viral technique?
A number of viral techniques have been suggested to increase the membership of my website.
Encouraging users to "invite" their friends using an email invitation.
Allowing sharing content on other ...
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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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What is the best platform for managing various social media networks?
Other than Hootesuite which I'm currently using, is there any other form of social media managing services that works?
Thanks,
Smith
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Strategy for unveiling a social network?
I have identified a niche community, for which I want to build a social network.
From compete.com, I see that the TAM is at least 10K unique active users. Their web activites revolve around an archaic ...
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I have the POC where can I get Developers to build it to commercial launch for Equity in the business
I have built the Proof Of Concept for my web app idea, and it's great although a few aspects need to be added.
However our budget is completely out.
We have been looking for a development team who ...
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Geography in a social network
I want to make a global social network, in which users can search for nearby users.
What is the preferred way to allow users to easily specify where they are located?
Zip code would be accurate, but ...
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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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What would make you quit Delicious?
I have a question - if you're using Delicious what would it take to get you to switch to another bookmarking site?
Full disclosure - I founded a social bookmarking site that launched its beta about a ...
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How do you measure a social network's success? (number of users signing up)
Well we just launched about one month ago,(ichooze.com) still in beta, too early to make any assumptions but im thinking about it every day (several times a day actually...) : Whats the average rate ...
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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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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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A social networking Web on Google Earth
I have been thinking to create a social network application built by using google earth api and sell/rent spaces for companies for their promotion on google earth via my web application. There will be ...
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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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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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Which title do you like better? pledger or investor or backer
There's no right or wrong.
Regards,
Johnny
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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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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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Facebook/Twitter B2B?
What are your thoughts on Facebook and Twitter for primarily B2B businesses? It doesn't make much sense to me to have a facebook fan page if my services aren't really used by the general consumer.
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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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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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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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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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What aspect of your startups workflow could be better, or how have you improved it?
I have asked a few fledgling tech startups about what they wish they didn't have to spend as much time on.
The answer is almost invariably 'not coding' and 'context shifts' as exemplified by ...
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How to gain momentum for a tech startup which is totally based on current users?
How can a startup actually gain momentum when it actually requires some users already using it to succeed? For example, consider a startup where one party will put in what he/she wants to learn and ...
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Experience with promoting your site through Social Networks
I have a site that I am getting ready to launch out of Beta very soon. I would like to take advantage of promoting the site through FaceBook and Twitter. I have recently created accounts on there ...
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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 ...
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Finding the right partner first? [closed]
I am an Entrepreneur and I have plenty of experience running my own business online successfully for the past 12 years, but I have a new project that really fills a need, and I know what needs to be ...
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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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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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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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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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Should I have 1 blog for each product or 1 blog for the company?
We have several products in several different areas (some are in the same areas). Should we start a blog for each product or should we write in our company blog everything?
What's the best strategy ...
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Open Source Forum platforms
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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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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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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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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Looking for a CTO type co-founder for NYC web starup [closed]
My post is not really a question but more of a person search or perhaps a public announcement.
I am developing a startup, currently in the brainstorming stage and I am in need of a partner who is a ...
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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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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 ...
