Questions

What are some strategies to use Instagram as a marketing channel for your website?

Marketing Strategy Instagram

asked Mar 10 '14 at 17:57

Randy Juan
40 points

I'm involved in a startup with some friends and we haven't formalized the equity split yet. When is good practice to do something about equity and what do you start with ie: short letter or...

Equity

asked Oct 17 '09 at 23:39

Scott Cowan
156 points

Over the time I've realized that mostly 50% of my traffic (from USA/UK/CAN/AUS) makes up 90% of my ad revenues. The other 50% of my traffic (mostly from IND/CN) only contributes like 10% or so. Of...

Monetization Advertising

asked Nov 5 '09 at 00:14

Arpit Tambi
1,050 points

The city I have lived in for the past 10 years just isn't a very good environment for internet entrepreneurs and I feel like it's holding me back. I just graduated from college in December so I've...

Location Silicon Valley Inspiration

asked Jan 7 '10 at 16:51

Travis
26 points

we have been approached by a competitor going out of business of website design to buy their customer list. as exciting this might be it also might bring various issues to the table and to take...

Customer Support Legal Purchase Agreement

asked Jan 16 '10 at 21:58

Gobezu
101 points

I have an idea for an off shoot of an already successful business that would allow me to scale it quickly and greater than I can now. However, the idea requires the building of a web...

Application Website

asked Sep 1 '10 at 03:09

Jeff
154 points

With the increasing number of social media websites, and businesses all over the world using social media for promoting and branding their products, will this over take the traditional way of...

Marketing Social Media Branding Internet Marketing

asked Jul 30 '11 at 20:43

Dart Consulting
16 points

We are a startup currently building a prototype version of a software with 20 developers within the websemantics field. We are developing a really innovative tool and have already received the...

Marketing Strategy Affiliate Partnerships

asked Jan 13 '12 at 23:28

Patrick
23 points

I recently created an Android App. It translates thousands of frequently used words from each language. When I started learning Dutch with a friend of mine, he suggested it would be great to have...

Market Apps Promotion Android

asked Feb 26 '12 at 07:55

Balkrishna Rawool
16 points

Are there in the UK any particular regulations regarding sending business offers/requests by e-mail? I was unable to find any, but for example in my home country, Poland a company can send an...

UK Spam Email Marketing

asked Mar 13 '12 at 04:21

Lukeshek
452 points

My partners and I are thinking of opening a nightclub in a newly growing community where everything basically close down at 8:00 p.m., How would I prepare a marketing & feasibility study to...

Marketing Business Plan

asked Jan 2 '11 at 12:02

Desertvibes
16 points

Currently operating a very small, early-stage startup. Just received first round of seed capital and looking to expand operations this summer. I have been looking for a developer (employee #2) to...

Hiring Visa Legal

asked Mar 17 '11 at 05:43

Travis Truett
127 points

I'm building a web platform to allow users rate/review a niche group of organizations and consultants. I would love to blog about the development process and design decisions. Should I keep my...

Legal Website Privacy

asked Feb 24 '10 at 08:26

Boolean
388 points

A lot of startups involve not just receiving payment, but also disbursing payment: WOrker crowdsourcing (mechanical turk, crowd flower), code + design outsourcing (Odesk, Elance, crowd spring),...

Outsourcing Payments Tax

asked Mar 22 '10 at 02:32

Joseph Turian
895 points

For the past several years we have used Paypal to pay freelancers and outsourcing companies in India. But as of March 1, 2011, it appears that Indian banking laws have changed and we can no longer...

India Payments International

asked May 7 '11 at 11:14

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

There have been references here to programming tests that are used to hire programmers. Even Joel has written about such tests. While that makes a lot of sense for new or intermediate developers,...

Hiring

asked Nov 11 '11 at 23:32

Patrick Ny
300 points

I'm deciding to hire a freelancer to build an app from one of the following websites: GoFreelance, ODesk, Rent-a-coder, eLance. The thing is that I don't know how much my app will cost me. I have...

Pricing Outsourcing

asked Feb 7 '12 at 23:10

Dole Doug
141 points

Our software product is sold to be intalled on the client side We are targeting large companies who can truly benefit from it and see the ROI. The challenge is the long sales cycles and being a...

Sales

asked Apr 22 '10 at 06:03

Stacey
484 points

An idea came to me while I was employed. The idea is within my broader field of expertise, but completely unrelated to the projects I was doing for my employer. I started working on the idea after...

Legal Patent Employers Intellectual Property

asked Sep 13 '13 at 08:20

D. Terry
16 points

What are some tips to save money / keep the burn rate as low as possible when you're building your startup? Doesn't have to be specific to any particular niche of startup.

Expenses Money Hacks

asked Apr 9 '14 at 20:13

Maureen Simmons
16 points