Questions

For my target keyword I am ranking as #1. Lately I've started seeing strange backlinks (lots of them) in Google Webmaster Tools.I suspect one of my competitors is doing it to potentially screw up...

Competition Google SEO Spam Backlinks

asked Jun 19 '14 at 01:42

Kevin Kinder
11 points

Most landing pages just ask for your email address -- which is likely because the fewer fields, the better the conversion.The problem is addressing your subscribers in the emails you'll send...

Email Newsletter Email Marketing Landing Page

asked Jun 19 '14 at 02:14

Alan Hamilton
11 points

We have built a white-label forum software that we license to B2B customers for internal use. One question that sometimes comes up during the sales cycle is: "How much does it cost you to...

Sales Software Customers Selling Software Licensing

asked Jun 19 '14 at 16:12

Melvin Burdette
14 points

Except for the 2-3 outliers (Instagram, Snapchat, etc), most of the photo sharing apps fail and close doors. Or get acqui-hired.Yet why do VCs continue to fund them? Is there much more to be had in...

Funding Venture Capital Photography Mobile Apps Instagram

asked Jun 19 '14 at 16:41

Cheryl Guynn
2 points

Is there an inexpensive way of filing a patent? We talked to a couple of lawyers and the cost to file a patent is hovering around the $20K range. Is that normal? It seemed absurd at first, until...

Legal Patent Copyright Lawyer

asked Jun 20 '14 at 14:42

Gary Russell
12 points

I have a high quality content site that was consistently growing the last three months. The backlinks are from authority sites.Just a few days after I changed my whois registration to private, my...

Google SEO Search Engines Search Ranking Domain Names

asked Jun 23 '14 at 12:28

Albert Vaughan
7 points

What are some tips for making high converting squeeze pages (where you only have an email signup and nothing else)? Do you have any examples of great squeeze pages or would like to show off ones...

Conversion Landing Page Cro Squeeze Page

asked Jun 24 '14 at 15:27

George Salter
16 points

I am creating a SaaS software product that targets brand new law graduates. But statistics show that law schools are churning out TWICE as many lawyers than there is demand.So that means half of...

Ideas Saas Market Analysis Market Opportunity Market Research

asked Jun 24 '14 at 22:10

Violet Hall
12 points

I own a fairly popular image hosting site (mostly memes). The content of the site isn't high value to advertisers on Google so my application to AdSense was rejected.How can I find a way to...

Monetization Advertising Google Adsense

asked Jun 25 '14 at 13:10

Joseph Larson
12 points

I'm trying to build an eCommerce company. Company registration is not yet completed, but is under process. Now I'm planning to raise capital to begin operations as soon as the company gets...

Funding Venture Capital Fundraising Crowdfunding

asked Jun 26 '14 at 11:15

Sky Buzz
36 points

I'm trying to validate our idea by talking to potential customers. What kind of questions should we be asking in order to get objective answers?If I were to ask: "How make xyz that helps you with...

Ideas Customers Survey Prospects Validation

asked Jun 27 '14 at 14:26

Sarita Gamino
9 points

What are some actionable things a founder does to create a company culture where people are motivated by the vision, and not just getting paid?Also, what are some resources you'd recommend reading...

Culture Management Ideas Leadership Vision

asked Jun 27 '14 at 19:25

Bernard Childs
9 points

I have a huge database of UPC barcodes and their corresponding products (name, photo of the product, some specs).Do you think there might be a market to provide a paid API access to this data?

Ideas API Startups

asked Jun 30 '14 at 14:26

Michael Hall
14 points

Apart from a heart to heart talk, what else could one do to keep motivating their co-founders to be most productive and not lose interest in the vision?

Co-Founder Motivation Ideas Vision

asked Jul 2 '14 at 00:12

Daniel Lynch
12 points

I am looking to get into starting my business (my first) and have no idea where to begin. Is there an online class or resource that provides most of the principles and concepts I should learn and...

Getting Started Entrepreneurship

asked Jun 30 '14 at 14:42

James Dowd
11 points

This question might seem more negative than it is...I'm looking to travel the world and build my startup on-the-go. Would I need to pay income tax in any country if I don't stay in a country for...

Legal Tax Remote Travel Tax Structure

asked Jul 1 '14 at 14:28

Willie Hudson
6 points

How do you manage tracking daily goals for your team?Our team is a distributed (all 4 of us are in different states) so currently just send a group email at the end of each day stating what was...

Productivity Team Remote Tracking Goals

asked Jul 2 '14 at 19:10

Edward Haley
7 points

We have a unique problem we're trying to solve: we need to write 15K pages of content on a specific niche and don't have enough of a budget to hire writers on sites like ODesk and TextBroker.The...

Outsourcing Content Writing Content Marketing

asked Jul 5 '14 at 14:42

Thomas Hunt
14 points

Can you please give me pointer on what I should consider before starting an online business.

asked Jul 5 '14 at 14:52

Vijender
11 points

So my business is called The Hot Wafel (Wafel is spelled like this in Europe).A competitor is using the words "Hot Waffles" to describe what he offers to the public. Is their potential conflict...

Legal Branding Trademark

asked Jul 7 '14 at 00:53

Rick Unuia
6 points