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Here, I've seen almost all the discussions are related to startups offering some kind of a product. It looks like a de-facto standard when anyone talks about a startup on this forum. Is there...

Software Entrepreneurs

asked Mar 23 '10 at 18:13

Sandeep Satavlekar
325 points

I was reading this article about Groupon in the CS Monitor. Which starts from the assumption that the significantly decreased proposed valuation of Groupon in their IPO to $12+/- million from $25...

Growth

asked Oct 24 '11 at 04:31

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

Within the online marketing space, a standard rule I have heard about landing pages is to limit choice. Ideally you have one page, with your sales pitch and they can either take your desired action...

Marketing Sales B2B SEO

asked Nov 6 '09 at 03:42

Adam
446 points

The context of this question is a small web design company that wants to branch out to do mobile application development. I am wondering two things: What average hourly fee do you charge a client...

Pricing Development Mobile

asked Mar 9 '11 at 10:17

Jbranchaud
168 points

We have a product that the customer pays based on the number of users. Suppose it costs 10$/mo/user and that the client has 10 users. That is, he pays 100$ per month for his 10 users. We want to...

Pricing Saas

asked Nov 19 '12 at 20:51

Clash
128 points

I saw this response in other thread that in order for you to get more time to build your startup, you should go home right ontime (5 o'clok sharp) everyday if you're still working for someone else....

Employees Ethics

asked Oct 28 '09 at 10:27

Jpartogi
1,342 points

As I approach launch, I am considering building an introductory video for my website in order to explain my software and the concept behind it. In my minds eye, I see this video as a mixture of...

Website Video

asked Mar 23 '10 at 21:17

Benjamin Wootton
1,667 points

I have developed a website. It is under internal testing. My website is a platform. You can ask for people to do something for you and you pay them; on the other hand, you can do something for...

Funding Angel Website Investors

asked Jan 13 '10 at 12:22

Steven
1 point

I am in the process of starting a business. The nature of the business is Photography (weddings, etc.). What would be a good accounting software solution (preferably cloud-based or SaaS)?

LLC Finance Saas Accounting Photography

asked Mar 18 '11 at 05:38

Brian David Berman
140 points

I'm a single founder of a startup and negotiating an investment with investors. We basically agreed on the monetary part of things. They are getting a minor part of equity. Among other things...

Board

asked Aug 2 '11 at 00:51

Alan Mendelevich
126 points

8 months ago, my wife and I were starting to build our own business. We didn't create our own products, at least not yet for now, what we do is just reselling others product. We didn't open offline...

Ecommerce Website

asked Feb 14 '12 at 14:06

Kalingga
245 points

I've work in my fair share of startups, and even today I feel like on every new one I still miss some important questions on the interview process: Financial: What is the burn rate, runway as the...

Employees Interviews

asked Oct 16 '09 at 02:13

User698
148 points

I'm a developer and I work in my spare time on a small mac app: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com Current stats: 15K users (who are updating the app with every new release) the web ~500 daily...

Pricing Application Beta

asked May 2 '10 at 19:01

Darwin
148 points

I'm working on an idea (consumer web) but am not yet incorporated. I am considering farming out some work to free lancers. Is there any issue in doing that before incorporation? What about my own...

Legal Website

asked Oct 9 '10 at 00:52

J Delage
277 points

I work for a church here in California as a gfx designer. 8 months ago I had an idea for a web service we could use at the church I work at. I spoke to my pastor (boss) about the idea and he said...

Legal Intellectual Property

asked Nov 13 '10 at 06:13

User5366
31 points

I've decided to take on a minority partner for my startup. This individual will have a 25% stake in the business and I will retain 75% as the founder. My partner will not be putting up any money,...

Partner Equity

asked Jan 9 '10 at 02:58

Kemmatech
33 points

How would you go about selecting and hiring a website designer? My biggest issues have been the range of prices I have been quoted for work (even among domestic providers), is there a way to...

Web Design

asked Feb 10 '11 at 07:49

User7192
36 points

We're bootstrapping our latest business idea. Everything I've done has been boostrapped. This will be a complete stop and change direction (so could be a total distraction for a month while we...

Planning Venture Capital Market Opportunity Market Research

asked Apr 18 '11 at 23:26

Matt
2,552 points

I'm building a platform to help others make their own SaaS site. I have a landing page, a prototype, many things, but I'm trying to organize the ideas and prioritize the work. What the platform...

API Saas

asked Oct 25 '13 at 02:06

Jbcolmenares
117 points

There are several services like SpyFu, AdBeat & ispionage which advertise they can provide the keywords, budget, ad copy and other information which competitors use in different ad networks...

Adwords Competition Advertising

asked Feb 4 '11 at 03:57

Tony Henrich
283 points