A website is a collection of related static and/or dynamic web content containing pages, images, videos or other multimedia assets accessible via an Internet address.
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Selling products online in the US from India
My Business is to have an to sell products online (online store). My business name has just been approved and I have also purchased the company desired domain. I am in the process of taking my first ...
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SSL Certificates
For an e-commerce site accepting payment information, I am being told I need to get an SSL Certificate. My hosting provider offers it for $99/year plus $25 initiation. Prices vary greatly -- e.g. ...
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Unemployed but with ideas burning a hole in my brain. Where to?
(Incoming wall of text)
I'm a 27-year-old recent college (under)graduate (computer science) who's currently unemployed and having a heck of a time finding a job. I have what I believe is a decent ...
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Finding an appropriate website investor
If somebody has a website idea and make the website successfully (not on paper) and the local market is good (idea succeed) but he cannot extend the market because of management, finance and marketing ...
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e-commerce store using wordpress
I am considering setting up a e-commerce store for a friend's retailing shop. What I am interested in is a solution that is easy to maintain in terms of administration (insert new products, new ...
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CMS vs “Regular Site” Site For Software Product
I have an idea for a software product that I am working on. I'm not close to being done with a releaseable version (by a long shot) but since I can't work at it at the moment I figured I'd ask about ...
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Giving away a free copy of software to entice people to leave their email
I've just been reading a book by Rob Walling titled "Start Small, Stay Small" and I came across an interesting idea (one of many he has in the book). I wondered what people on here thought.
My ...
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How to collect data for starting a website
HI, I am about to launch my new web application which deals with exchanging info about a certain city among the users.
but in the first launch, i will not have any users. So even if i advertise to ...
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Testing company/domain name acceptance
We have a couple of options to name our company but we would like to find out which one is best accepted by users or which one is better associated with our product.
In the past it was possible to ...
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How to structure SaaS website
I am not sure how to structure website for our SaaS product. Basically we want to tell 3 things: what is product about (it's relatively new and to our potential customers (small businesses) yet ...
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I am a web model and I signed a contract with a non-compete clause I want to get out with out a problem help?
The contract is for 2 years and im only 2 months into it and it also has a non compete clause/Exclusivity clause ... so i really want to get out of this fast its a bad bad deal..
D. Exclusivity. Not ...
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Copyright Issues With Creating “Social Search Engine”
I want to create a "social search engine" website. The idea is for people to search for jobs (or articles, or recipes -- I am necessarily targeting jobs), and be able to view them on my site, comment ...
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What should I be responsible for as the first developer in a large scale web project?
I am the first developer in a large scale web project, in the real estate sector.
I am not an expert in any field, I know the basic of all, programming, databases, something about design and a little ...
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Technical co-founder or pay someone to build
I have an idea for an off shoot of an already successful business that would allow me to scale it quickly and greater than I can now. However, the idea requires the building of a web ...
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What is the best online payment processor, moneybookers, Google Checkout or paypal? [closed]
I have developed a website and I want to integrate an online payment system with my website. What is the best online payment tool, moneybookers, Google Checkout or paypal?
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Why do distributors or wholesalers hide their prices and ask for quotation request from the enquirer/potential buyers?
Why do distributors or wholesalers hide their prices and ask for quotation request from the enquirer/potential buyers?
I have seen in many B2B internet websites.
Please let me know.
Thanks :)
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My startup is in “concept” stage. Where should I go from here?
I just found OnStartups and I'm looking forward to sharing
insights with you guys. My startup is currently in "concept" stage, and
I was wondering where to begin my journey. I have a great idea, ...
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How to redirect to another website with tracking?
Our website promotes a web-based application that's actually on another site (in the ebay.com apps center). When someone hits the "sign up" button on our website, it implements a redirect as it takes ...
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Site for web designers + developers to share equity?
There was a site I found a while ago, where someone with an idea could post it (either a designer or a developer), and they could locate 'the other half' (i.e. a designer looking for a developer), and ...
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What tech expertise do I need to accomplish my goal?
I have a business plan & money to hire a developer - the essentials involve simple online games for children (played via traditional computer over the internet) such that their scores are uploaded ...
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How to sell a website?
I would ask you something that is a problem for me: sell my website. This website is a blog, a forum and a "database" of anime and manga (as imdb) built with Zend Framework. It has many daily visits ...
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How to outsource (website) translation effectively?
my website should be multi language, but every native speaker can see in the first sentences that the translation (by us) is not good enough.
So I have two possibilities:
Let a native speaker ...
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Cost of Building Website?
We are briefing Marketing agencies next week about activity relating to the launch of our product (CRM system that is SaaS).
Can people please advise what the ball park cost for a website like ...
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Domain Name Ownership Liability
I have a couple domain names that I purchased personally. I have since created an LLC and would like to utilize these domain names for products created under the LLC. So my questions are:
Do I need ...
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Website Flash Demo Resources
Hello fellow entrepreneurs....
I'm trying to create a flash product demo for my website. Looking for any great Do-It-Yourself Resources or any startup friendly (meaning $ friendly) providers...
Any ...
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How to choose a Ads solution for website or mobile apps that uses the profiled data?
We have a website and some mobile apps which generate significant number of daily views (say 10M).
The main feature of these projects is that, in most cases, you know a lot about users interests, ...
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Will naming my website like this be a case of copyright infrigment?
I want to create a website for a particular industry. There is a term that is used quite widely in the industry - for the sake of argument, lets say the expression is "great scott". The term is used ...
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Group Buy Business Startup Tips
Is there anyone that has experience with some groopon like applications (clones) and would like to share with me their experience?. I am just a programmer and I don't have much experience with ...
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Show competitors prices on e-commerce site, legal issues?
I am starting an ecommerce site selling electronics in the UK. I belive I can compete with price against others in this field, and was considering have a 'price compare' table on the product pages ...
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How do travel meta-search engines work?
I am a member of a travel startup and would like to include a travel meta-search on the website. However, I would like for it to function similar to Kayak's engine (referral only).
How would one ...
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How does a UK-formed LLP get a US merchant account? Do we need a US EIN?
We are a UK-formed LLP website trying to allow our US PayPal customers payments remain in dollars without the currency charge to transfer to pounds. How do we get a US merchant account? Do we need a ...
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Recommendations for a rating/review website
I'm building a web platform to allow users rate/review a niche group of organizations and consultants.
I would love to blog about the development process and design decisions. Should I keep my ...
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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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Benefits and drawbacks of adding your personal info to your company's website
I have a software company that sells software online only, and on my website it has an "About Us" section, describing the company's location and history. Is there a good reason- either pro or con- ...
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Long term or short term advertisement offer?
I run a website that attracts university and companies that offer program, service, software in a certain niche.
I'll plan the site in a short time and have several potential clients contacting me ...
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What's the best way to discourage junk data submission to my site?
I'm working on a search site. But the data being searched is only the data submitted by the public. I have no need for users, but I want to discourage people/bots from submitting complete junk that ...
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Is it a real pain? Should I spend a couple of month of my time on it?
I always hear that a good idea is to solve people's pain. Here I have one:
Pain: When I really want to talk
to some one. His/her phone is always
busy/no answer/please leave message
... etc. So I ...
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How to make a Web Site Profitable?
We built a high quality, scalable and well put together Career based web application that caters to the IT/Tech industry. It is designed to compete with the best and biggest (think Dice.com, ...
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Generating income from websites
We have a website that lets companies advertise their courses and lessons for free. We currently have adsense on the site to generate income, but this income will not cover the cost of the next ...
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What's wrong? (low traffic to my site/software product)
We released our software late November, 2009 we got our first sale after 2 weeks, then another sale after one week. and everything was promising.
But from late December till today, we haven't got any ...
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How much is this site worth?
I own a site that on which I "practiced" SEO. It isn't a real business. I only make money from it by putting Google AdSense and right now it makes just under $100 per month and growing, although I ...
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URL Logo Question
How do you add a logo so it appears in the URL address box in a browser? For example; Dharmesh has the Hubspot logo appear at www.hubspot.com in the URL address box. Thanks. -Kevin
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Startup idea and web domain - is it being done already?
I have an idea, and would like to pursue it. Whether or not it becomes big enough to create a startup from it I don't know yet.
I have search for other web sites that provide the same service, and ...
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Noob with a high potential profit idea.. in need of advice..- Heavy traffic expected -
I have an idea for a website that I am willing to invest any amount of money in to have it created successfully. Fortunately for me, funding will not be an obstacle. However, I do not have anywhere ...
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Who should I contact if I want to sell my website to big company?
I am a founder. I'm planning to write a letter/email to sell one of my website to big company, but the question is: Who should I contact?
The CEO of company, the product manager or just anyone that ...
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Do you think it would make a difference if customers knew you were a one-man-band?
I'm having a dispute with someone who has a commerce website, they want to maintain a professional image and prefer not to reveal to [potential] customers that they are in fact an entrepreneur working ...
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Current web technologies in business point of view
I am a software engineer with no experience on web development and I will work on a startup which main product is a website.
We are in the very beggining of things, we are not commited to any ...
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Websites for helping choose a company name? [closed]
I found this very cool site that I thought I'd share with the community (I'm not affiliated with them)!
http://www.panabee.com/
It helps you word play and create fun domain names... but it hasn't ...
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If you can't come up with a business model for your idea for a website, can you just slap ads on it and call it a day?
I apologize in advance to smart, experienced tech entrepreneurs if the question is absurd, I'm just trying to get where you are and you have to start somewhere. I have an idea for a website that ...
