Questions
what would be your selection criteria. The qualities of an enterprenur are written everywhere would that be enough for you? Is there anything you know as a quality that an enterprenur should...
38 points
I am interested to open an online shop for selling handmade craft ( something like those displayed on etsy ), but I afraid that there is a tendency for buyers to return and refund goods at will...
871 points
I'm bootstrapping a business software and I've got a serious issue: I don't plan on doing any "mass mailing" nor "email campaign". I will never ever send one email to someone who didn't ask. My...
180 points
We are a new start-up currently building a CRM/Sales team management package that we plan to bring to market in a couple of months (we are based in UK). We already have our launch customers in...
We do have a product without demo, we only give out evaluation copies to potential clients and people who'd like to do a review the product. It's a long story why we don't have a demo, suffice to...
We all know and understand that good advice is crucial to a startup, but what about bad advice? What advice has someone given you that you wished you had ignored?
1,190 points
The subject is the question. How can someone who does not know how to code contribute to a startup? Do you recommend that that member attempt to learn some basic coding so as to contribute to the...
818 points
I am in the process of launching a startup and was wondering if I could get some peoples opinions on this. My platform is going to be a collaboration-type site (similar to Wikipedia). How did they...
46 points
I've registered my small consulting company about a year ago and since then we provide consulting and support for several clients, one of which is one of the industry largest organizations in the...
It's not just a simple question. It's about how passionate you are for your idea. Since the conception. I'm fully passionate for my idea. Thats what turns my product into a greatest, easyiest to...
108 points
The one thing that really seems to hold me back from progress is web design. I hate it! Colors, layout, arghh! I can design applications/code no problem, its just the design that is a mental...
162 points
I have come across a question by a local business. When it comes to SEO, is there a difference between a website built on WordPress and one using any other means (static pages, website templates,...
I am not a coder. I know basic coding and some web design, enough to have come up with what i believe to be an interesting idea for a start up. I can design the website and software myself, but...
818 points
I was wondering what applications other people here use to manage their business finances. I looked at some programs such as Simply Accounting and QuickBooks, but both of their free versions are...
4,692 points
If I am capturing leads from my marketing activity, how do I nurture them, keep them live, and move them towards close?
Spam in email, Linkedin Groups, forums, etc is so prevalent. I see it as part of life on the internet but find it annoying and intrusive. Both legitimate and scam businesses spam. Is it because...
I have a 100 pages site written in 15 languages to replicate from one CMS (now discredited with the customer) over to SiteCore - which on the face of it offers many great features. The UX is to...
81 points
Put your website into Website Grader. The free report they come back with has: Google pagerank Google indexed pages Last Google crawl date Traffic rank (from Alexa) Inbound links (matches neither...
303 points
There's a lot of criticism of freemium in the startup community, but in 2009, some of my favourite large software companies moved towards, rather than away from it. Atlassian started their $10...
It seems like there isn't very much information on the web about wind-down processes in a start-up, largely because probably don't want to admit publicly when their company didn't pan out. However,...
156 points
