Questions

How do entrepreneurs make sure they read only few important books which matters every month and disregard the others due to information overload ?

Getting Started Resources Books Entrepreneurs

asked Dec 15 '11 at 17:05

Drew X
77 points

Can word of mouth be a good customer acquisition strategy for a smartphone app?

Acquisition

asked Dec 15 '11 at 13:09

Ina
121 points

Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a...

Co-Founder Compensation Investors Vesting

asked Dec 15 '11 at 12:57

Ina
121 points

I have a site that is just under 3 months old: http://www.problemio.com Lets say that I am doing a very nice amount of SEO for it considering that it is so young. But the problem is that I don't...

Marketing SEO

asked Dec 15 '11 at 11:40

Genadinik
1,821 points

I have to write a business plan and I'm stuck on the revenue and business projection part. We're building a platform that is all about user-generated-content concerning a certain topic. It also...

Launch Business Plan Revenue Growth Users

asked Dec 15 '11 at 11:38

Beorex
6 points

We are in process of implementing support portal for our startup and looking at zendesk or assistly for this. These two services seem quite similar and from reading around on the internet I can't...

Customer Support

asked Dec 15 '11 at 11:10

R D
110 points

I've created a series of mobile apps for the cruise community called Ship Mate that gets a significant amount of daily use. In it I've added the ability to highlight business in the different ports...

Sales

asked Dec 15 '11 at 10:48

Jan
143 points

I started a local coupon shopper for small businesses, but I am having a hard time selling ad space. My costs are much lower than any of my competitors, however I'm stuck on how to attract local...

Marketing Advertising

asked Dec 15 '11 at 07:18

Bernard
6 points

Our website is currently run on a Hyper-V server and we use SQL Server 2008 R2 Express. One annoying limitation of 2008-r2 is it has a 1gb RAM limit. We are enrolled on Bizspark from Microsoft...

Microsoft Bizspark

asked Dec 15 '11 at 05:34

Tom
480 points

Is the uppercase implementation of Android the only thing that is trademark, like it is with Google or both, because android is in reference to a robot? If they did trademark both does that...

Trademark Android

asked Dec 15 '11 at 04:22

Daryl
16 points

This is similar to another question on here, but my concern is slightly different. I've been developing a web app for the past 2 years and registered the domain name for it about a year ago. Other...

Domain

asked Dec 14 '11 at 21:43

Shaun Budhram
106 points

I have an innovative project developed. Now I have to contact companies. All my friends are refusing to take me inside to his working company. To contact a company for suggesting my project...

Contact Meet Up

asked Dec 14 '11 at 20:28

Gimp
427 points

I know there have been related posts to this question which I've already read, but can someone please help me specifically with this? We found some high profile techies/developers in a neighboring...

Strategy Equity

asked Dec 14 '11 at 18:23

Newbie
1 point

My company provides a set of API for accessing telecommunication services (kind of like Twilio). The target customers are web developers. They could be indie developers, or companies. What are...

Marketing API

asked Dec 14 '11 at 14:00

Samwize
106 points

Ok, I think I'm going to give up my company name (see here: Trademark infringement - does it really sounds that bad? ) Given my situation I need to make sure: Nobody will go after me again (it...

Business Naming Trademark Domain

asked Dec 14 '11 at 07:05

Katit
276 points

Is there an existing system that startups or websites uses to send their newsletters out to users that are signed up to their site? I don't really want to go build a subsystem just for that so I'm...

Email Newsletter

asked Dec 14 '11 at 04:30

Shawn Mclean
220 points

For 15 years or so, I worked at various graphic design firms as a production artist. Two years ago I left "Design Firm" in "Big City* and started working freelance from home in "Rural Area" about...

Marketing Advertising

asked Dec 14 '11 at 04:13

Bgad
28 points

I'm considering registering a business that I am bootstrapping. At this point I am concerned about keeping costs down. The cheapest option in my state is to register a Sole Proprietorship. The next...

Startup Costs Saas Business Liability

asked Dec 14 '11 at 02:42

Mike Nereson
411 points

I have a minimum viable product web application which I have been tinkering with over the past 6 months. A friend of mine who is keen on startups and attends meet-ups and other events suggested I...

Customers Advertising

asked Dec 13 '11 at 18:31

Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

We are planning to create a facebook fan page/application which has the potential of driving in a daily traffic of 100,000.However,we are not clear about the revenue generating model.Is there any...

Monetization Advertising Facebook

asked Dec 13 '11 at 16:26

User14997
6 points