Questions

These days, I've noticed that a lot of the one man (woman) shops all try to appear larger than life, i.e. go for a corporate look. I find that given how Social Media has progressed, this isn't a...

Recommendations Website Web Design

asked Jan 7 '12 at 13:18

Ray
215 points

When buying websites on Flippa, what is the key information I should do due diligence on?Also, isn't it possible to fake Google Analytics traffic fairly easily? Not just by modifying a screenshot,...

Acquisition Purchasing Due Diligence Flippa

asked Apr 13 '14 at 13:11

Kelly Harden
11 points

San Francisco and New York are notorious for their high cost of living. While the startup scene on those two cities is great, the downside is even a $100K+ salary means a mediocre living...

Location Silicon Valley San Francisco New York Startups

asked Jun 14 '15 at 17:40

Sara Shepard
12 points

I am looking to finally implement somekind of CRM here, as it get's more painful to run business without it. At the moment Zoho or Highrise seem like solutions I can consider. We're using Google...

CRM Productivity

asked Nov 20 '10 at 02:43

Alex
262 points

I got my first client the other day for my social media & content marketing consulting business. They are an apparel company.What are some ways you would go about creating a content strategy...

Strategy Social Media Content Marketing

asked Feb 28 '14 at 13:03

Sarah Jones
45 points

Has anyone here had success driving sales for their SaaS startup using telemarketing, or is it usually just a waste of money and a way to annoy potential customers?

Marketing Saas

asked Feb 10 '11 at 11:55

Jon Kragh
185 points

I am going to a startup seminar/meeting this week where there will be entrepreneurs, investors and business people . I am getting ready for my startup 's online/offline presence, hopefully that...

Marketing Strategy

asked Oct 31 '11 at 12:03

Nikolai
125 points

Godaddy usually sell their products (domain and hosting services) at high prices then give an option to enter a promotion code. There's nothing unusual about that, except that these promotion codes...

Marketing Strategy Promotion

asked Aug 14 '13 at 00:37

Pacerier
317 points

We are five engineering students, going to start up a company. As there are many competitor companies in the market, we were looking for an investor to start very big. Fortunately, we found an...

Founders Investors

asked Aug 7 '12 at 01:00

Akshat Nigam
50 points

I want to get a bunch of logod schwag printed as part of our promotional plans. Some of the things I want are: Tshirts Full size footballs smaller nurf/soft footballs other balls that can be...

Marketing Swag Conferences

asked Dec 18 '09 at 07:33

Jer Levine
173 points

I was looking for cheap code-signing certificates, but all I saw were over $100/year. I think the same applies to SSL certificates. I read some references to insurance coverage amounts, maybe to...

Software Web Security

asked Oct 1 '11 at 02:40

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

Does anyone on this forum have any good experiences in hosting a logo design contest? If so, which site, or sites, are the best? Also, does anyone have any advice on what to consider when...

asked Jul 17 '14 at 06:30

Rmd Work
11 points

I have an idea in my mind, for this idea I want to invest more time and money in making it a fully developed product. So far, whatever small software products I have created are for a small niche...

Software

asked Jan 4 '11 at 00:18

Iamgopal
221 points

As many of you know, companies like Google and 3M give the employees 20% of their time to work on something that really excite them the most. I also been thinking maybe this can be a good strategy...

Employees Side Projects

asked Nov 12 '09 at 10:07

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I am from India and I am owner of a Pvt Ltd company, we deal in software, web development, hosting, server administration. We are successfully in business from last 5 years. These many years we got...

Outsourcing Side Projects Support

asked Oct 6 '11 at 00:50

Bandurao
11 points

We are a small software design and development company with expertise in the areas on facebook apps, iphone, android apps development. Most of our clients/projects have come from sites like Elance,...

Marketing Sales Software Outsourcing Entrepreneurship

asked Dec 8 '11 at 19:44

Ali
179 points

I am interested in buying a cert to sign my binaries as well as web server cert. https://www.startssl.com/?app=2 seems to provide it at decent price, but I am not sure if this is a reliable...

Ecommerce

asked May 5 '11 at 13:22

Jewelthief
151 points

I'm reading a lot about DAU/MAU being a good metric for user engagement. But what is a DAU and what is a MAU? For Daily Active Users: Is a user not a Daily Active User if they missed one day in...

Metrics

asked Feb 27 '13 at 21:17

Jorisw
9 points

I'm willing to give 20% of my startup to my partner who has an MBA and good experience. His main responsibility will be sales, marketing and deal making. I'm the developer. I'm working full-time...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Nov 5 '09 at 08:13

Boolean
388 points

With the $5K that I have to work with, what is the best way I can utilize it to grow my SaaS app? The items should be measurable (so... magazine ads it out :) My app is an email marketing...

Marketing Growth Budget

asked Feb 10 '14 at 16:04

Leigh Geyer
38 points