Questions regarding execution of business' long term goals
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Starting a review/rating website - for a social cause [closed]
After a lot of brainstorming I have come with an idea of setting up a review website. I know this idea is not new but I want to do this to help people, earning money is secondary
Now the main problem ...
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Comparing Investments: Selling land vs. starting a business [closed]
I have a situation where I need to compare some investing alternatives.
We and my partners own a piece of land with high commercial value, that was bought 7 years ago. Now the real estate market ...
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Need help to understand the pros and cons between open source vs closed source license for webapp?
I'd like to ask you for the help/advise to come out of the problem that came out recently in our group.
We're working for 3-4 months on the web application similar to http://instagram.com/ or ...
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Silicon Valley No-No's [closed]
Leo Widrich begins his recent post "The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup," by saying, "One of the big no-no’s we’ve learnt about early on in Silicon Valley is ..."
What are the ...
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Is this back link strategy a poor business decision?
I have a health related website which I am in no rush to monetize, my first priority is to build page rank and dominate the serps. I am thinking about letting healthcare providers advertise their ...
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How do investors feel about investing in an outsourced MVP?
We are a semi non-technical team, that has access to technical people that will oversee the technical side of the build. Our thoughts, are to use the working MVP to validate the idea, and hopefully ...
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One Founder, Now What? [closed]
I am the only founder of my company as I outsourced the development for now. So far, I am handling everything. Making strategic decisions, how to penetrate into the market, etc. I am in a desperate ...
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Strategies for When One Discovers Competitor
For that past few months, I've been building a product that targets a specific niche. The kind of product I have been building hasn't been around the marketplace, and I knew there is a demand.
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How to prevent misuse of my advertising strategy by my competitor?
How to prevent misuse of my advertising strategy by my competitor?
I want to run an offer with an unique strategy, I however, feel that someone will misuse my strategy and would come with my ...
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Which is the best naming strategy scenario to follow for our startup?
a colleagues and I are trying to find the most appropriate name for our startup, is about software consulting for small companies. We already have established a small company that we deal with web ...
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Solar retailer business in india?
I am Sakthivel from india. I am willing to start a retail selling business on all solar products to general public in chennai. There are few facts for this decision.
My state is in deficiency of ...
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What is the best and cheapest way to improve a specific keyword searches?
What is the best and cheapest way to improve a specific keyword searches?
I was thinking about if, there is any proven strategy or case, which help improve searches of a specific keyword.
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Hiring own team or outsourcing
I have recently started reading the blog and I feel it has been really helpful and helped me anticipate problems that I would not have foreseen otherwise. My question is related to the decision of ...
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Best strategies for approaching customers via phone
We are currently creating a spin-off from the university, that offers services to biotech/pharma companies. We have tried to reach our first customers by cold emails, but we were not very successful. ...
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Do people consider gamification a feature, business concept, or strategy?
I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a major ...
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What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, just a month before renewal?
What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, especially a month or two before they renew with them?
Is there any business term for what I ...
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How to transform a free trial user to a paying one?
We are a B2B web company, which offers a tool for online sellers ( amazon, ebay ).
Since we got more and more free trial user, our ratio from trial to paying ( which was before near 80% ) got back ...
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Built a company? When did you realize you needed a COO (or ops exec)?
I am in the midst of writing a follow-up article to one I have written to address some myths about startups and operations executives. In 15 years I have been through 9 startups (co-founder in 2 and ...
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Already 120,000 monthly visitors but almost no revenue
I am starting to get very frustrated, after 2 yrs of crazy amounts of work and $70K invested and having my website online for 1 yr I already have 120,000 monthly visitors but still can't monetize the ...
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What to do when an investor ask for a percentage of future revenues
We have a profitable hardware and SaaS business. some clients want to obtain a 12-month financing to buy our hardware. we need extra money to allow it. that would increase our monthly income by SaaS ...
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Can my Unique Selling Point just be the deliver of the solution of a problem?
I am creating a new website and it's a very common one, about upcoming events. The difference of me and the competition is how I deliver the events to the people that is kind of strange and clever ...
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Better revenue model for local online business directory
I am starting a new startup that operates a local online business directory where you can find businesses (much like YP.com or superpages.com.) I am divided between the two revenue models:
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Business model for upcoming events web page
I have developed a local upcoming events web page, that aims to deliver the events in a different way than other similar services.
The event organisers will list their events but at a cost.
My ...
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How to approach SEO for a new website?
We have just launched (yesterday actually!) a website for our startup - providing mobile and Facebook app development services. Sales will totally drive from leads generated from the website. ...
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What kind of multiplier on when selling a database with resell rights?
We sell a database of companies in our sector for $0.05 a row without resell rights
A company that sells a similar database is looking to buy our database with resell rights, I am wondering what ...
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What is the best strategy to follow now?
We are a startup and our project consists of 4-5 sections, each one will have several standard and advanced features. What we will seek in the future is a funding.
We are currently developing our ...
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Alternatives to equity for a strategic partner
I want to approach a former colleague to be a strategic partner on a software project. He would be bringing key skills to the table that I frankly can't afford to pay an employee for. I was ...
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Who are the leading web advertising sales reps in the world? What kind of traffic do I need to have to get their attention?
I've tried feeding the question to Google, and various smaller alternatives of it too, but this seems to be the only page with even tangentially relevant info.
My ultimate goal is to sell advertising ...
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Should I make a website open source?
I want to make a website, that is by definition a software, but I don't remind seeing any open source websites. My website like many is supposed to pay itself by ads.
Is there a reason why I should ...
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Can I have different co founders on different parts of the company?
I want to launch different web services which have different co founders under one company, And still keep them separated from each other? for example should one of the apps not do so well I don't ...
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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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How To Find New Problems to Solve or Ideas for Products To Work On?
What is the thought sequence, particuarlly in a new venture that you're thinking about or have already started? Do cool things just randomly pop in your head after whatever things you do through ...
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Right time to start adwords ads?
We recently launched a food gift website where you can create & personalize your gift. The site has several innovative features which people like a lot. There is an online food gift market in my ...
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How do you bill for customisations in your SaaS offering?
We provide a customisable SaaS solution, and have adopted the classic billing model of a monthly user subscription fee. However some of our clients also require us to make customisations to their ...
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What email address convention does your SaaS startup use?
We run a small SaaS startup and we're using GMail for Business. Each member of staff currently has a personal email address using their first name. For example john@example.com, steve@example.com...
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How should I organize my company's phone numbers? [closed]
Maybe the title is not the best to describe my question.
We are a team that we want to create/organize some startups under our company name. Suppose you have this scenario. Our company is named Main ...
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How to sell advertising space on the website during initial stages?
I'm building a web application for an academic community. I'm relying on advertisements as the revenue model for my business. My website is currently in its very initial stage so, how can I get the ...
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how important is the .com TLD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what's more important - .com or name?
I am in the very early stages of what I hope to be a very profitable company. It is solely an online presence (think Digg, ...
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Why is customized software so expensive?
Actually, I know the answer but I don't know how to market my answer.
Quick background
We're an independent team of 3 developers who write software for a company with 2B in revenue. We've been ...
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importance of a community?
I recently launched a web site but I have a dilemma between
building a community
completing business model
at the moment the site just MVP so it has some attractive features but doesn't have ...
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Sensible pricing options for a tiered translation service on retainer? Or - how do I add value more without exhausting myself? [closed]
I’m an English man living in Germany.
As a side line, I offer German to English translation, interpreting and language lessons.
These do not provide a steady income, so I’d like to offer a service ...
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sample business model canvas or tool
Hi I am looking for some sample business model canvas with proper details ?
Any link or image would be welcome
Any quick tool to build a model canvas would be also helpful.
cheers
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I am ...
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First partnership that could get us half a million users - help!
We are a startup currently building a prototype version of a software with 20 developers within the websemantics field. We are developing a really innovative tool and have already received the ...
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Is it a good practice to receive money for every service my company offer? [closed]
We have a start-up company in which we offer some educational services.
Some of our services are free to use but most of them including : online quizes, consulting and blah blah blah.
They can ...
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How a vertical search engine can enter the market, since the main content source provider doesn't share their data?
Here is the case,
There is a market that we want to enter as a vertical search engine (think of indeed.com). It is a classifieds search engine. However, the market's biggest classified site that we ...
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What time of the year to review your company strategy?
At what time during the year do you review your company strategy, making sure you are working towards something useful, and set goal for the months ahead?
This question is being asked in the second ...
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How people may react if you ask them to join your “hospital” for internet ingorants?
I came with an idea, it is mainly a small internet company that will help and guide people with no or little experience with computers and internet. Something like e-learning.
My main problem is not ...
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Need help structuring equity for well qualified partner wannabes
I know there have been related posts to this question which I've already read, but can someone please help me specifically with this?
We found some high profile techies/developers in a neighboring ...
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Strategy- How to make a single time visitor into a frequent visitor of your website? User engagement
Strategy- How to make a single time visitor into a frequent visitor?
I know subscribing is one of the many options for user engagement and frequent visits by users.
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How to deal with the subscriber email address shift from the subscribed email address to a new one? [closed]
How to deal with the subscriber email address shift from the subscribed email address to a new one?
example : Mr.A subscribed on www.example.com by using mr.a@yahoo.com, however, now he tend to ...
