Questions

Reducing the barriers to using a website is often a key goal for an eCommerce business. One way of reducing the barrier to the whole 'register/sign up' process and the subsequent 'logging in with...

B2B Website Registration

asked May 11 '11 at 01:14

Edralph
2,333 points

Background: I'm a tech guy with alot of product building experience I've built and recently launched a SaaS/cloud application for a niche market, targeting small-size companies The product...

Marketing Sales Hiring

asked May 23 '12 at 11:39

Cloud Mark
125 points

So I develop further and further on a web project. I put in some considerable amount of money. But the more I develop the less I enjoy doing it, I hate it, doing it all on my own. All the time new...

Motivation Failure

asked Dec 11 '12 at 14:48

User1505034
31 points

Having my business website crash (bad) recently was one of the toughest few days since becoming a Founder. My former hosting company experienced a major server issue. A planned re-boot caused a...

Customer Support Technical Customer Service Internet

asked Nov 2 '11 at 03:56

Richard H.
175 points

(Note: I maintain a complete "firewall" between company and personal money, and the only way money goes through is with salary, loans, investments, or dividends.) When I took the plunge a few...

Motivation Salary Personal

asked Oct 29 '09 at 09:09

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

I was asked by a potential investor for Key Performance Metrics for our company. What do you think the KPIs are for a typical SaaS company? Here are the ones that I think we should give him: CAC...

Metrics Saas

asked Mar 16 '11 at 04:57

Andy Cook
2,309 points

I just wondering, do you have mentors when doing startup? And how do you find them? I read a book titled "One Minute Entrepreneurship", it said that a person won't offer to be our mentor, but we...

Mentor

asked Jul 2 '11 at 00:08

Jazar
123 points

I am interested in creating an online service for the genealogy (family history) market. But I have no idea how you go about researching the size of a potential market. How would you discover the...

Marketing

asked Oct 10 '09 at 23:01

Phil Wright
131 points

A few months ago, I was asked to join a startup for $85k/year. All the company really had was a pretty big angel investor and one guy with the idea (wealthy father and son with the idea). Before...

Getting Started Equity Shares

asked Nov 23 '12 at 17:23

Anthonypliu
136 points

I'm running a company from the last 10 years. Now I have hired a senior person to head the finance of the company as my knowledge in the finance is nil.He has asked for 6 % equity stake in the...

Equity

asked Feb 4 '10 at 14:27

Jay
31 points

Many professionals want to start their own venture but are scared of failing. Many of them do not know if they have a multi-faceted personality that is needed to run a business successfully. How...

Solo Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs Business

asked Mar 19 '10 at 02:48

Joydeep
185 points

I would like to get someone with me full time with good sales experience and contacts in my industry to help me get sales going but I don't have the budget to hire a sales guy? I expect your answer...

Sales

asked Apr 20 '10 at 06:09

Stacey
484 points

Is it better to pay more up front for a custom coded website, or go with open source CMS, which is a much more economical alternative. Specifically for this bootstrapped micro startup, there is one...

Bootstrapped Website Micro Startup

asked May 11 '11 at 03:15

Sam
509 points

I'm working to launch my product in the near future and some guys are asking if there will be a "free" version. I've read some opinions that discourage the freemium model because canibalizes sales...

Pricing Marketing Software Freemium

asked Jan 25 '12 at 14:00

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

I have n app on the App Store it doesn't doing terribly well because I am neglecting it a little but I intend to go back to it soon. Basically a big gaming company has approached me and wanted to...

Legal Apps Name

asked Sep 25 '13 at 05:33

Chris
31 points

Most bloggers are saying you should release early, iterate often, and fail fast. But some companies are notorious for releasing early, but then getting a bad reputation which led to their failure....

Getting Started Features Failure Release

asked Dec 19 '09 at 05:41

Jason
16,231 points

How does an iPhone developer like Rovio make any money with a free app

Iphone Apps Android

asked Mar 28 '11 at 09:47

Mike Walsh
745 points

We all know and understand that good advice is crucial to a startup, but what about bad advice? What advice has someone given you that you wished you had ignored?

Career

asked Jan 15 '10 at 13:34

Smart Company Software
1,190 points

There was some talk in the media about how it is hard to find talent. There were some comments that actually the real problem is that salaries offered by new startups are way under market, thus a...

Salary

asked May 16 '11 at 16:41

User10483
208 points

I came up with a great idea for a webapp, I've been creating design docs, project specs etc. Everything was going well until I decided to google my idea, which to my surprise came up with one...

Ideas Development Web App

asked Sep 20 '11 at 16:41

User744319
94 points