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Blue Ocean Strategy is a business methodology that says: instead of competing in a market with existing competitors (red oceans), why not create your own market (blue ocean) and dominate it? Here...
Can anyone explain to me what a disruptive strategy is for a start up company in software. Apparently launching a disruptive strategy gives a start up a higher chance of success according to...
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We are planning to launch productivity web app :) Summer is defiantly slow time on web and I was thinking, is it better not to launch in summer and wait till autumn?
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One large problem for a lot of entrepreneurs, regardless of whether it's their first startup or their eighth, is motivation. We slowly become less motivated due to delays, or thinking about how...
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All, If I have an LLC, but during the financial year we haven't generated any profits yet, do we still get taxed? Does the law differ for each states in the US?
We have a cool application idea that depends on aggregating content via RSS feeds from various external sites. While going through terms and conditions, we noticed that some of the sites have...
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I have a business plan & money to hire a developer - the essentials involve simple online games for children (played via traditional computer over the internet) such that their scores are...
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How can you build a customer base for your product when all you have is an idea (promise of value)? I'm thinking about getting my product idea to a couple of forums to engage people in it's design...
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Does anyone have much experience with finding office space for a small startup (less than five people) in the UK? There are more and more places out there offering eBuisness or Start-up...
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Something I've always wondered is: does the risk of a startup failing to make profit decrease as as the individual/team tries more and more startup ideas? If I had 10 distinct ideas and tried each...
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A company that I'm working for is registered as a UK limited company. How would I go about setting up a US branch/subsidiary of this company? Should I register as an LLC, S Corp, C Corp, or...
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Several months ago, my girlfriend wanted to make a custom photo calendar(that's something that you can put your photos with some edition on a calendar). And we search for some tools for this kind...
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We started our business back in July 2009 with the intentions of building websites, consulting, internet marketing, etc. Now we have changed our focus to developing a SaaS solution for a...
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We're currently building a small e-commerce product that involves recurrenct billing (think of domain registration). As the 'tech guy' I don't want to set up a full blown ticketing system at this...
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In a recent group chat hosted by Joel Spolsky regarding the Stackoverflow Series A funding round, Spolsky was asked: "How do you envision making a profit?" to which Spolsky replied: "...the...
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All, I run a contract engineering firm, and I'm considering taking stock in some of my clients in return for reduced rates. I feel comfortable doing this given the continued level of income from...
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We'll soon exit the beta stage and start charging for our SaaS solution. We're based in Italy so we work in Euros. We think we should also offer the solution in US Dollars, however we find it hard...
I am about to launch my startup company, and we will be going live in a few weeks time. We have really tight budgetary constraints, since we are bootstrapping - and would prefer not to raise...
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I'm looking for case studies of startups that properly used game mechanics to drive user engagement and growth of their user base.
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I am still a newbie on the topic of merchant account and payment gateway. I tried to look around for information on merchant account and payment gateway, but I can not find a satisfying answers on...
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