Questions

Actually, I know the answer but I don't know how to market my answer. Quick background We're an independent team of 3 developers who write software for a company with 2B in revenue. We've been...

Pricing Software Strategy Money

asked Jan 24 '12 at 10:51

Adhg
250 points

I run a dating site, and I'm trying to reduce the number of users who start the registration process but do not complete it. Our registration process is as follows: User enters their email...

User Experience Registration User Acquisition

asked Nov 21 '12 at 15:43

Sherif Buzz
462 points

Have you taken VC money or angel investor funding for your enterprise? At what stage? What has been your experience so far? I know Joel advises against it and hasn't used VC money so far, and I...

Venture Capital Angel

asked May 20 '11 at 20:21

Water Cooler V2
139 points

When you consider the following: 20 USD monthly fee x 12 months = 240 USD per user / yr. So, 1,000 paying customers would be needed to attain 240,000 USD revenue At a conversion rate of 10% one...

Marketing Business Model Saas

asked Sep 6 '12 at 21:31

Jason
56 points

I'm wondering how many websites are actually successful at making money purely off ads. Clearly the search engines do, but apart from them can you point out specific sites which have successful...

Business Model Advertising Website Revenue

asked Nov 16 '11 at 08:29

Yarin
147 points

The Senate passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) by a vote of 73-26. The Senate added new crowdfunding protections, the House will likely accept them as-is, and the President is...

Funding Legal Jobs

asked Mar 25 '12 at 07:24

Zapoo
303 points

Blogs are an essential way to dissipate information about you and your products. But posting interesting posts as well as relevant to your domain is not easy. How do you entrepreneurs plan for...

Blog

asked Oct 23 '09 at 04:14

Lud0h
264 points

I was thinking about this question recently: http://www.brightjourney.com/q/advice-resources-performance-reviews-employees I also enjoy this...

Venture Capital Corporate Structure

asked Nov 28 '09 at 11:49

James Black
2,642 points

There are hundreds of stackoverflow clones, but none as successful as the original. What is the secret behind the huge success it has got? Is it the initial pool of developers who answered the...

Success Website Tips

asked Jun 13 '11 at 22:01

Aib
126 points

I was wondering, if its safe to entirely drop facebook out of the focus and not bother with it at all. The company in question is B2B and sells enterprise level software with licenses range 10k -...

B2B Social Media Facebook

asked Feb 9 '13 at 00:29

user1721135
182 points

For many entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs the potential positive impact on the world is as important are providing a healthy financial return for the investors. Often the definition of...

Social Entrepreneur

asked May 11 '11 at 13:47

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I have an idea for an online business, but I don't have the time to actually "execute" it. Is it sellable if I develop the business plan, website, etc.? If so, or if not, when does a business...

Selling Business

asked May 21 '11 at 17:12

Richard Des Londe
206 points

I plan on working in the pattern recognition software industry. Some research into this industry led me to read about a company called “Nuance Communication.” According to this techcrunch article,...

Patent Ethics Intellectual Property

asked Jun 14 '11 at 04:28

Amichai
241 points

I have started marketing for my startup, which sells just 1 software product and is really just a side business from my day job, for some extra cash. Google AdWords is coming out at about $2/click,...

Marketing

asked Mar 21 '11 at 11:23

User6492
1,747 points

I'm looking for a list of companies who can produce professional screencasts for product tour and help videos. So far this is my list: Procasts Whistle Media 6 Professional Screencast...

Marketing Screencast Video

asked Dec 9 '09 at 10:29

The Dictator
2,305 points

As far as I know YCombinator usually gives an average of 17k to participants, but do you get more funding rounds through YCombinator or you have to look for VCs yourself after?

Funding

asked Jan 13 '11 at 04:58

Ryudice
204 points

First I must say, this site is quite impressive. I found it while researching partnership agreements. That being said, I am nearing a fairly important conversation with my current partner to...

Equity Partnerships

asked Jun 12 '12 at 14:51

Icon
69 points

I am working as a single worker in my small office. For the last year I have had more work than I can manage and I am thinking about employing someone to help me. Now, is there a way that I can...

Employees Cost Estimation

asked Jul 12 '13 at 01:25

Ben Mcss
143 points

I would like to compete in the software market and I thought that if I just present a product that provides the same functionality and is as good as its competitors and sell if for half the price...

Pricing Software Competition

asked Feb 1 '12 at 16:08

Cj7
124 points

At some point, we all exhaust our networks and need to look externally for talent. We're planning to do some specific recruiting around front-end and "all-around" dev folks in the next few months...

Hiring

asked Oct 13 '09 at 02:04

Randfish
1,001 points