Questions

Between me and my 5 other co-founders, we are deciding who will hold the CEO position. It has come down to me and another founder. I was told from one of my other founders that they thought I...

Founders Agreement Founders Agreements CEO Titles

asked Sep 19 '14 at 19:25

User34135
11 points

Background: My product extracts data from pdf files. Free users get 8 free jobs. Paying users get 40 jobs. Each job is a data extraction from a pdf file. Problem: User engagement terminates after...

Products Business Model Support

asked Sep 19 '14 at 08:49

user7823742
21 points

I'm just getting started with a consulting business and don't have any clients or personal network I can tap into to get the ball rolling.Is it ok to cold-reach potential customers that fit my...

Getting Started Consulting Business Clients Outreach

asked Sep 18 '14 at 21:44

Lorenzo Washington
1 point

So today I did soft launch of my SaaS tool. I sent out about 150 emails to my mailing list. Roughly 45% of people opened it. 20% of users clicked it and landed on my site.I found that I had only 20...

User Experience User Acquisition

asked Sep 18 '14 at 00:54

user7823742
21 points

Since Twitter and Facebook are the most popular social networks, is it even worth targeting other sites in a social media marketing strategy?Has anyone had any consistent success with other social...

Marketing Social Media Facebook Social Network Twitter

asked Sep 16 '14 at 19:14

Jerry Mason
4 points

Has anyone risked using credit cards to fund their startup in the beginning? I have looked at other options like angel funding, bank loan, etc. But none of those channels is something that I can...

Getting Started Funding Credit Cards Capital Fundraising

asked Sep 16 '14 at 16:45

Benita Mc Dermott
4 points

How does Craigslist generate revenue when both posting and responding to listings is free? The only category they seem to charge for is the jobs section.Is that enough of a revenue source for them...

Strategy Revenue Income Craigslist

asked Sep 16 '14 at 15:57

Joseph Long
14 points

Is it a good idea to offer a less featured version of your software as open source as a marketing strategy? It obviously has worked well for companies like MySQL and wondering if it could work for...

Marketing Software Strategy Open Source Tactics

asked Sep 9 '14 at 15:42

Glenda Gregory
12 points

Lately I have had someone constantly post thousands of spam blog comments which have links that point to my site. It is a huge amount of work trying to keep up with disavowing these links in Google...

SEO Spam Competitors Backlinks

asked Sep 9 '14 at 15:14

Patrick Gonzalez
14 points

I'm a passionate high school student becoming a young entrepreneur. But I question if I should go to college or not. The college degrees seem unnecessary. I need advice from experienced entrepreneurs.

Education College Young Entrepreneur

asked Sep 4 '14 at 15:44

Jo Ken
1 point

We all know that Google Analytics stats can easily be faked with bots and proxy servers. Which makes objectively finding good sites to buy Flippa very tough.But what about Compete.com and Alexa...

Traffic Analytics Statistics Alexa Compete

asked Sep 4 '14 at 00:57

Carmen Unger
7 points

I'm a marketing person with an idea for an app that I want to launch. Should I spend a few weeks or months learning how to code or should I save up some money and hire a programmer?Are there...

Getting Started Code Contractor Startups Programming

asked Sep 3 '14 at 21:55

Doug Blackwell
22 points

On my SaaS app, I currently only have a recurring monthly option.Should I also add yearly and quarterly payment options (and offer customers a small discount if they pick one of those)?One clear...

Payments Saas Money Discounts

asked Sep 3 '14 at 20:28

Joyce Mc Clellan
9 points

Should you ask for college transcripts or a copy of the college degree when hiring software engineers? Wouldn't it be easy to just lie on the resume otherwise and state you have a PhD from Harvard?

Hiring Interviews Education College Engineers

asked Aug 30 '14 at 18:13

Darin Swint
11 points

I started my company from scratch and found a technical co-founder to build my product. So I managed to hustle in order to find this guy, who was working in a company. He started working for me...

Co-Founder Equity Founders

asked Aug 30 '14 at 10:43

User34129
1 point

Background: I have built a website & extension. It's a basic video transcoding service. A user installs the chrome extension on chrome store or by clicking a link on my website. Then, they...

Technical Google Analytics

asked Aug 30 '14 at 00:12

user7823742
21 points

There are several things that are needed for a SaaS startup from a legal standpoint: Privacy policy Terms of service Contracts How can a bootstrap startup do these without spending money on a...

Getting Started Legal Legal Documents Startups

asked Aug 29 '14 at 15:55

John Jackson
7 points

As a founder of a few apps, I always get caught up in redesigning or recoding an entire app from scratch.Sometimes it's because I'm not satisfied with the first iteration (or have been staring at...

CTO Motivation Development Founders Developers

asked Aug 29 '14 at 15:29

David Ponder
17 points

I've built an MVP and have about 35 beta sign ups. It's not much but my landing page conversion rate is fairly high so far, so that's a good sign. I've sent out about 10 invitations to sign up....

Products Beta Startups

asked Aug 26 '14 at 14:44

Mnort9
201 points

How can you incorporate light-hearted comedy into your apps? Any good examples of starts that do this in their UI?The only one I've seen do this is MailChimp. Do usually do this in their error...

Apps Copywriting Differentiation

asked Aug 25 '14 at 22:11

William Dalton
12 points