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Is it realistic for a start-up to have as a component of it's business (marketing) plan -- to go viral? Is that really something you plan to happen?

Marketing

asked Mar 30 '11 at 06:50

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I'm deciding on a domain name and I like one, however it has the word "should" in it. Do you know of any reason that would be a problem ? Like people not being able to spell it or any such ?...

Naming Domain Best Practices

asked Mar 30 '11 at 06:35

Planet Unknown
105 points

"How am I going to make money?" This is the question that's been bouncing around in my head for the last few months as I've been developing my site. Allow me to beat around the bush here, in order...

Funding Venture Capital Business Model

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:46

Edit This
88 points

Let's say you've got a web-app (what for is not really the point) ready to go live, but you don't wanna run it - you wanna sell it to the best bidder. What are some good places to auction it...

Web App Marketplace

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:28

John Idol
133 points

After developing a unique software product for the past 5 years, I am looking to team up with a business developer that can get the right investment for going viral... The prospective business...

Partner Intellectual Property Business Intelligence

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:08

John Sel
6 points

StartUpAmerica was launched with much fanfare earlier this year by the White House, Steve Case, IBM, the Kaufman Foundation, and others. Goal is to find ways to help create jobs in the private...

Incubators Government Entrepreneur

asked Mar 29 '11 at 21:36

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

I was watching a slide from a very successful entrepreneurial, in which his argument about users feel about products totally surprised me. Here is his idea: How users feel about your products and...

Products

asked Mar 29 '11 at 16:15

Shirtman
33 points

There are some excellent posts on how to select a co-founder and what qualities you should look for. I firmly believe in 'try it out', and have been for about 5 months. In that time I've also come...

Co-Founder Team Partnerships Communication

asked Mar 29 '11 at 10:51

Rsg
313 points

Is it all about making money -- or is there something more? Is there value in a mission about positive impact on the world? Is there a value in start-ups that are addressing issues of global...

Entrepreneurs Social Entrepreneur

asked Mar 29 '11 at 09:48

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I am in need of delivering a proposal for a software project I may work on. Some of the areas they would like me to highlight is "implementation timeline, cost, overall system functionality, and...

Proposal

asked Mar 29 '11 at 07:57

Benny
121 points

I have an excel spreadsheet I'm using to manage my projects. I have my assumptions about my product that drive base, then I try to apply a "Growth rate". Here... to make it easier to understand I...

Forecasting

asked Mar 29 '11 at 06:29

Nick
1,171 points

Okay, this is not a typical question, but applies in a specific case. Starting out as a freelancer, most of us spend a lot of time in picking up necessary skills and building out a set of happy...

Hiring Company

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:45

Roopesh Shenoy
141 points

Is it possible to hide your contacts from only certain people? Such as direct competitors that you are linked to? For instance, maybe you have you are friendly competitors but you don't want to...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Linkedin

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:09

Scott
468 points

Have you found the SBA to be of any value in launching your start up? We used the SCORE program and got some reasonably helpful advice but other than that, haven't seen much value. Here's the...

Government SBA

asked Mar 29 '11 at 01:03

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

There is a lot of focus on the cost of employee turnover in companies. I am curious to know whether there are any studies on failure-rate of high-tech companies increasing if the turnover rate is...

Strategy Management Human Resources

asked Mar 28 '11 at 22:22

David
1,567 points

My start up business will be a social service that also hooks to a mobile application. I want my users to be able to interact with my service over their phones or on their PCs. Naturally I'm...

Community Web Services Mobile

asked Mar 28 '11 at 18:35

Long Winter
271 points

So the startup culture and ecosystem is also emerging in NYC...how would you compare the ecosystem between NYC and Silicon Valley, what the pros and cons of each is and what can one offer that the...

Company Geography Silicon Valley

asked Mar 28 '11 at 15:22

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

I want to do training in computer security: it's been my life for 30 years after all. But I want to keep my day job as a college professor as well. My university (like most universities) allows me...

Marketing Time Management

asked Mar 28 '11 at 15:11

Fixee
155 points

My partner and I are starting an LLC in california. We are in different financial situations, I have enough of a nest-egg to not take a salary, he does not and needs an income asap. We have also...

LLC Partner Salary

asked Mar 28 '11 at 13:28

Dbh21
6 points

So, this is likely more of an "information architecture" sort of a question... but I admit, in the last 20years of internet revolution, I've been on the frontier of pretty much every new wave......

Blog Website SEO

asked Mar 28 '11 at 12:48

Igorek
886 points