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I'm looking for a a recommendation for a startup-friendly PR firm. Anyone have a firm they'd recommend? I see this question but there aren't any recent answers to the question. Anyone have any new...

Marketing Recommendations PR

asked Jun 10 '11 at 07:21

Joseph Fung
1,542 points

The software and Internet startup companies I've worked for required 60, 80, or more hours a week of their employees (not just founders), for extended periods of time, up to a year. Are there...

Work Life Success Employees Founders Failure

asked Jun 10 '11 at 08:19

Meva
26 points

We recently launched an online quoting SaaS and are targeting some fairly competitive keywords (e.g. quoting software or quoting system). Because the domain is relatively new (~6 months), I know it...

Marketing Bootstrapped Inbound Marketing SEO

asked Jun 10 '11 at 08:35

Mike
252 points

I have set up a goal which will count the amount of sign ups I get on my site. I need to divide this number by the amount of new visitors in order to get my conversation rate. From what I can...

Analytics Metrics Conversion

asked Jun 4 '11 at 20:03

Ben
108 points

I want to take a screenshot of my apps along with the phone just like in Color landing page. How can I achieve this? I tried to take a photo of the phone but it doesn't look as good. No, taking the...

Marketing Phone Screencast

asked Jun 4 '11 at 22:25

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I have a few subscription based services which have grown consistently though affiliates and resellers. I want to get a strong sales force going. Do you have any books, training, blogs, etc. that...

Sales Books

asked Jun 10 '11 at 11:01

Rafferty Pendery
466 points

I've been working on a bootstrapped startup for about 2 years now. I've been working on it solo to this point, but I feel I'm starting to run out of gas. I need fresh ideas, money and assistance in...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Partnerships

asked Jun 10 '11 at 11:02

Sterling Nichols
148 points

Our team has a huge 7 digit venture capitalist funding and we want to make a web service that we get money on every time people use it. The software does not depend on us coming out with more...

Software Venture Capital Website Web Services

asked Jun 5 '11 at 04:16

Anthonypliu
136 points

I have an idea for a social network site. I know Facebook has many patents and I'm afraid of violating one of some of them. I'm not located in the US, main questions: Do you think I should talk...

Patent Social Network Provisional Patent

asked Jun 5 '11 at 04:44

Daniel
24 points

I am an employee who has been granted common stock (note: actual stock, not just options) in the privately held company I work for. To my knowledge, the stock is not traded anywhere and it does not...

Stocks

asked Jun 10 '11 at 13:30

Stock Owner
31 points

I had used Scribd.com and in order to download anything they asked to upload and share something or pay for the download --- Now I feel this is a good business model especially when you are a...

Business Model Business Plan Business

asked Jun 5 '11 at 05:34

Yuvraj
57 points

What types of things do I need to consider if I get approached from a venture fund overseas? I had an early-stage venture fund from Germany contact me looking to learn more about our startup and...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Overseas Seed

asked Jun 5 '11 at 05:46

Nick
1,171 points

OK I was reading this post here Equity distribution amongst startup co-founders And I was thinking ok once the equity has been discussed and agreed upon, who is the leader,Is it the guy with the...

Co-Founder Decision

asked Jun 5 '11 at 06:45

I Scotts
152 points

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...

Facebook Social Network

asked Jun 5 '11 at 07:07

Daniel
24 points

I've heard that many entrepreneurs golf with their clients. What is the purpose of these golf outings? Is it important for an entrepreneur to know how to golf? Are there any common alternatives?

Clients

asked Jun 5 '11 at 08:49

M. Dudley
138 points

I was wondering, if a site has lets say 1 million page views per month, how much does that make it worth? Similarly, for signed up users, lets say, a thousand signed up users - how much does that...

Website Valuation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 01:10

Genadinik
1,821 points

A lot of technology companies, especially non-consumer facing, have a multi-part name. The first part can be almost anything... The last word, or suffix, is a more formulaic noun, common choices...

Naming Domain Name

asked Jun 11 '11 at 03:00

Paperjam
394 points

I have recently launched my small online business(sole proprietorship). I have no funding and this is something I been working on for the last two years on the side at night after work. I am...

Equity Human Resources

asked Jun 5 '11 at 11:07

User11033
21 points

My company recently launched a product and I've been attempting to build up the page rank of the product site by building up inbound links to it. To kill 2 birds with one stone, I've been searching...

Marketing SEO Spam

asked Jun 11 '11 at 05:42

Erebus
121 points

I apologize in advance if this question has already been asked a thousand times. I did a search and couldn't find anything, nor did the related questions provide any answers to my question. I...

Retail

asked Jun 11 '11 at 09:05

Beachrunnerjoe
319 points