Questions

I know it's dependent on the employer's background, but in general is more difficult to hire great marketing staff or product developers?

Marketing Hiring

asked Feb 24 '10 at 13:12

G Rex
683 points

How do I find a sales person? I know a lot of people here think that you just put up Google Ads, wait for clicks, and then wait for sales, but I think sales is an important task. Following up with...

Marketing Sales

asked Mar 2 '10 at 07:14

Simon
165 points

There are so many ways to measure an online web application business, of course the most important being revenue. Imagine you've got a board meeting coming up or a meeting with your investors,...

Board Analytics

asked Mar 2 '10 at 07:18

Chris
4,214 points

I recently quit a big MNC to start off on my own. I have built a B2B(Business-to-Business) product but not figured out how to price it. Please tell me if my approach is right. I was earning...

Pricing Features B2B

asked Feb 24 '10 at 16:56

Viv
482 points

I created a twitter crowdsourcing contest to get some tagline help and raise pre-launch awareness (build a great tagline and get an iPhone). http://roadbud.com/iphone-contest/ The problem is, I'm...

Marketing Contests Twitter

asked Feb 11 '10 at 22:01

Mike Schoeffler
100 points

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...

Outsourcing Website

asked Feb 18 '10 at 23:52

Steffen Binas
116 points

I recently launched a Q&A language site (powered by StackExchange just like answers.onstartups.com) as a side project. Now that it's gaining noticeable interest, I am looking forward to push it...

Marketing Promotion

asked Feb 6 '10 at 03:02

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

My company needs to have a US address for getting insurance and other services from US providers, despite us being based abroad (in Canada). Can anyone suggest a good provider of an inbound...

Virtual Workforce Office

asked Feb 19 '10 at 03:08

Michael
250 points

Can anyone give me a one or two sentence definition of the term "Consumer Internet"? I feel like it is a phrase that is getting thrown around an awful lot, yet it seems extremely ambiguous. In...

Web 2.0 Internet

asked Feb 6 '10 at 04:10

Eric Amzalag
818 points

We've started beta testing our WordonWiki software. WordonWiki is a Wiki with all the features you'd expect from a wiki, but it lets you create and edit pages with MS Word. We're getting good...

Sales Strategy

asked Feb 19 '10 at 06:34

Wordon Wiki
76 points

I was sitting down with an experienced entrepreneur a few days ago who was telling me about a guy he was advising who was having no luck raising a Series A round. Apparently, when he got seed money...

Funding

asked Feb 6 '10 at 06:53

Frederick Cook
301 points

Any suggestions for a free web service which can suggest available single word, easy to spell correctly, and easy to pronounce domain names. I don't care if the words are made up. I am sure all the...

Domain

asked Feb 6 '10 at 09:32

Abdu
384 points

Microsoft's BizSpark is a program to help startups use Microsoft's software. There are issues with this program: They don't explain clearly what the requirements are to be approved If you get...

Tips Microsoft Bizspark

asked Feb 6 '10 at 10:02

Abdu
384 points

This question is heavily influenced with my experience of an offline entrepreneur. While hearing voices for teaming with tech-savvy cofounders to create a prototype or working technology I can't...

Bootstrapped

asked Feb 12 '10 at 05:27

Kirill Blazhko
393 points

I wonder - is it possible to sign a contract with a freelancer for a regular contract job securely? I mean how can I justify that all the work he has done will be given to my company and nobody...

Legal Employees

asked Feb 12 '10 at 05:34

Kirill Blazhko
393 points

I'm condsidering moving to the Valley as one of the options for myself as an entrepreneur I am concerned about the medical insurance. In my home country medicine is formally subsidized by the...

Health Insurance

asked Feb 12 '10 at 05:43

Kirill Blazhko
393 points

What's the best practices to send a follow up email after the user's trial version expires? What questions to ask? Is a short survey good idea or an email which asks a generic feedback better? Is...

Marketing Sales CRM

asked Feb 6 '10 at 11:39

The Dictator
2,305 points

I'm a huge fan of OmniPlan for my development planning. It lets me set up my tasks, gantt chart them, measure resources, get a rough idea of how long things are going to take, and it's very...

Planning Project Management Project Planning

asked Feb 6 '10 at 11:51

Sbwoodside
186 points

I have few question related to fund raising When you are raising money from VCs, what type of documents are expected from you? How much of your internal and confidential data/stats do you reveal...

Funding Venture Capital Entrepreneurs

asked Feb 6 '10 at 12:00

User2202
164 points

So we are a site that provides a free trial for our web-based service. We don't have any affiliate marketing that would pay based on leads or sign ups for the free trial. Right now we just...

Website

asked Feb 12 '10 at 07:26

Chris
4,214 points