Questions

So when you have little customer and I mean one what do you do when you are asked the question how many customers do you have and can you provide customer references when you are a start up?

Marketing Sales

asked Oct 8 '10 at 04:29

Stacey
484 points

I have an idea in my mind, but how do i know if someother company is already working on a similar idea (espeically in stealth mode) or worse if i start working on my idea and half way through if...

Getting Started Competition

asked Oct 13 '09 at 06:59

Syed
445 points

I realize this is kind of an incendiary question but bear with me. There are of course many strong newsletters in the world. But they already exist. My question is about starting something new...

Newsletter Blogging Internet Marketing

asked May 13 '11 at 13:49

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

I'm currently based in singapore. I have noticed that most startup, especially those that grow into super successful giants are mostly from US: facebook, groupon, linkedin. Or maybe because I'm...

Success USA

asked Jun 23 '11 at 16:43

Melaos
131 points

We are about to launch our new B2C startup (based in Germany targetting the German-speaking market first, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland), but hopefully later expanding to English-speaking...

Trademark Name

asked Apr 22 '12 at 22:55

Yoav Aner
318 points

I have the following situation: My product is enterprise software and costs 50k. We don´t want our competitors getting their hands on it, so we dont offer a downloadable trial. A potential...

Software

asked Feb 3 '13 at 20:43

user1721135
182 points

[Multi-part question with similar introduction because I thought the questions would be more useful separately.] Hi all, I'm currently a one-man dev team with what I believe is a killer idea. I've...

Recruiting Team

asked Nov 30 '10 at 02:10

Goober
131 points

I'm twenty years old and I live in upstate New York. I took the last semester off to focus on starting a business, but it didn't take off as I planned. I want to be a successful entrepreneur and...

Business

asked May 13 '11 at 15:37

Nh18
31 points

Some people are motivated by money. Others are motivated by fame. Some of us find passion for our ideas that keeps us going no matter what. What drives you? What keeps you going through failure,...

Motivation

asked Oct 12 '09 at 09:01

Epall
50 points

I have this open-source project I run (http://www.mediabrowser.tv ) a few months ago I posted on the business of software forum and my blog that I need to find a way to monetize it. Since, I have...

Legal NDA

asked Dec 11 '09 at 14:53

Sam Saffron
432 points

I would like to determine the potential market demand for a non-software, travel product that requires significant up-front capital for manufacturing. What open source software, if any, would you...

Getting Started Marketing Technology Research

asked Oct 15 '09 at 23:47

Val Lynn
483 points

Short of begging, what is an effective way(s) to get feedback from a lost sale? I'm thinking survey, but is there a more practical way?

Sales

asked Jan 8 '10 at 17:22

Sparagi
346 points

We're working on a mobile application that provides location based services like cinemas nearby, places, events and deals. I need to decide from now and then, whether to integrate with an API to...

API Core Values

asked Jun 27 '12 at 20:45

Yehia A.Salam
131 points

I'm a big fan of mechanical turk and often leverage it with smartsheet. I've used mturk for basic writing, gathering content from multiple sources, and some minimal research. However, I don't think...

Outsourcing Virtual Workforce

asked Oct 14 '09 at 11:58

Dlynton
1,057 points

I have a sole proprietorship in Canada, and sell software that I have created to corporations in the US. One of them has asked for an indemnification clause. First of all, I don't know how to write...

Legal

asked Dec 16 '09 at 13:16

Steve Hanov
596 points

I have few question related to fund raising When you are raising money from VCs, what type of documents are expected from you? How much of your internal and confidential data/stats do you reveal...

Funding Venture Capital Entrepreneurs

asked Feb 6 '10 at 12:00

User2202
164 points

Do you enterprise software people list your prices on your website? Most enterprise software seems to require the customer get in touch for a quote. What are you thoughts on this?

Pricing Marketing Enterprise

asked Feb 10 '11 at 05:59

Big Tuna
349 points

What is the best way to sell a high quality (dictionary word) domain name?

Selling Business Domain Internet

asked Apr 15 '10 at 23:31

Joel Spolsky
13,482 points

I saw a lot of posts on Fiverr where people who offer creating 1000's of backlinks to your website for a pretty low price. Is it a good way to improve my SEO? Is it safe to use this technique? I...

Outsourcing SEO

asked Feb 14 '12 at 11:44

Salmon
970 points

I hope i will not get downvote,because my question is a very basic question,But still it can be made as wiki in this site and will be useful for other fellow members, My dream is to start a...

Marketing Software

asked Apr 9 '11 at 03:18

User9279
131 points