Questions
I'm pitching a major potential client on Wednesday. I mean, HUGE. Background (thanks, James!): We are Textaurant, a SaaS web app tool that provides waiting list management for busy restaurants....
I've always been taught to have a competitive advantage. What makes my company special, different, better, etc. What prevents someone from doing what making something that mimics my business. Well,...
460 points
Given that it is tax time how should you pay an accountant? Do you do your own bookkeeping and just work with a CPA firm to do your taxes or do you have a CPA firm on monthly retainer to make...
41 points
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
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...
If I am capturing leads from my marketing activity, how do I nurture them, keep them live, and move them towards close?
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
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
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...
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
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
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
So I've got a digital product that has a website and the marketing and user community for it are alive and well. Now how do I go about breaking into that next level? How do I get it on the shelves...
1,471 points
We are getting close to signing our first enterprise client. Among other things, we want them to help us sell to other companies in their industry, which they indicated they have access to. In past...
195 points
My partner and I are looking to develop a mobile application for the service industry. Before we look to get funding we would like to see if our mobile app has any "legs", How should we go about...
41 points
What's better? By big-bang I mean an all out blitz of press releases and marketing coverage in order to generate a lot of buzz for their startup. Ramp-up, obviously is the opposite, usually means...
1,196 points
Are there any legal pitfalls I should know about when creating a service where I pay users to provide a service to customers? The model I'm thinking about is like Amazon Turk for a certain...
What book/text changed your life or most influenced you and why? One book by answer please!
2,753 points
So, I made the entrepreneur leap a few months ago. I've been tinkering and trying new ideas and learning a lot. I know the specific niche I want to work with, and I have been building up a...
460 points
I live in Mexico, and come from a middle-low class family (and that's third world middle-low class) and all my life I've had in me this entrepreneurial dream which I have not been able to make...
103 points
