Questions
So, what is the best way to find jobs as startup company? Do you find customers via web, newspaper adds or by your friends help? Any other way?
I've long held the opinion that a PR firm is one of the sound, early stage, marketing investments a company can make but that such a firm has to excel at traditional PR as well as managing speaking...
On one hand we have designers readily available, people we can hire to create something with direction or concepts already available. On the other hand, we have sites like 99 Designs and...
521 points
Does anybody know of any source where I can find out what 'real' valuations internet startups are getting? The term 'real' valuation is totally made up, but I mean what actual investors are...
1,086 points
What resources do you use to create an refine a sales funnel? What techniques do you use to generate leads? What do you do once you get leads to qualify them? Are they standard conversion rates and...
Some angel groups are charging desperate entrepreneurs. Here's what Jason Calacanis has to say about...
95 points
What is the difference between marketing a consumer product and an enterprise product? I have read much of the ISV materials, BTW, thanks to all the legends such as Eric Sink, Bob Walsh, Jason...
34 points
I've never started a business before, let alone a charitable, non-profit organization. I search the web and find a lot of information, but other than common sense, I don't know how to tell what is...
121 points
I've been working on several web applications of my own. For each web app I have different co-founders and I own more than 70% of each app. I decided to incorporate a company (in BC, Canada) for...
388 points
We are Web 2.0 company that built a hosted Content Management solution from the ground up using LAMP. In short, people log into our backend to manage their website content and then use our API to...
26 points
What do you do when you need a banner to advertise your product?Design it yourself, hire a local designer or use some design services on the web?What do you recommend for a small company with a...
176 points
I have a relatively new software startup that is pre-launch. I'm starting to get into a lot of issues/areas/whatever that are outside my realm of expertise. I've been thinking about trying to setup...
118 points
A few months into the startup and I have a feeling my founder is losing interest/passion/ability to put large amounts of time into the business. The reason this is tough, is because he's the...
86 points
(Apologies for the long post. I'm really keen to get sound and balanced advise. The only way to do that is to provide you with a good overview of the situation.. :) ..) I would like to say upfront...
23 points
Are there any applications out there that provide an API for accessing US property listing (MLS) information? Zillow has property information for most of the country but very little listing...
I use a simple formula to define value . Benefits - Costs = Value But the key thing to note is that what you think are benefits for the customers might not be perceived as benefits. Asking them...
547 points
I would like to know your views on fighting clones. For example look at these web pages. polldaddy.com/signup sissurvey.net/signup.aspx It is pretty clear that Polldaddy launched poll service...
18 points
I'm in the process of evaluating resumes for a web marketing / project management position. I've never considered myself very good at interviewing. Beware, my question is multi-faceted, so don't...
If you were able to choose the ideal team of mentors for your company and you could choose anyone, who would they be and why? Note: This is a dream team, like fantasy football. CEO's? Steve...
221 points
I am creating a blog for our startup, and imagine the blog would be a great place to post on product news, product tips, and our companies attitudes to various technologies and events that are...
