Business Model Questions

Maybe a better way to ask this would be, how does a "startup" differ from any other small business which might grow?

Business Model

asked Jun 13 '12 at 05:25

Warren
329 points

My friend approached me with a business idea of selling a service to allow US business owners to incorporate in Dubai in order to avoid taxes. She resides in Dubai and owns a business there, and...

Business Model Tax Business Plan Business Offshore

asked May 31 '12 at 10:55

Chris
1 point

Three of us want to create a freelancing company and work via most popular freelancing sites nowadays. We've been working like this for 2 years and we need more people to help us. I see many such...

Software Equity Business Model Profit Sharing

asked May 10 '12 at 17:07

Ben Mcss
143 points

An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a product, service, or organization and its value proposition. What was the elevator pitch of Facebook when it started?...

Getting Started Marketing Ideas Business Model

asked May 20 '12 at 23:54

Anlai
375 points

I have been asked by another company to build them some software to operate some machinery. The company sells this machinery to their own customers and wants to provide the software I write along...

Payments Business Model Accounting Billing Royalties

asked Mar 25 '12 at 05:37

7wp
275 points

We're looking to enter a joint venture with another entity in order to collaborate on a large IT based project. The agreement is that the other entity will provide most of the human resources,...

Business Model Compensation Joint Venture

asked Mar 17 '12 at 00:56

James
6 points

Sorry for the long question, but I promise it's a good read as it includes a challenging topic on growing a bootstrapped business, which I imagine applies to many of you as well. I look forward to...

Business Model Saas Selling Business

asked Mar 18 '12 at 01:19

Novice18
18 points

I am thinking about starting a small charity to help find and support the "untapped Genius" in everyday people or people that might otherwise just end up in a dead end job or unemployed. The...

Business Model Tax Accounting Tax Structure

asked Mar 21 '12 at 11:15

Amin Brodie
39 points

We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization: Premium model : Buy...

Business Model Monetization Freemium Donations

asked Feb 20 '12 at 22:22

Xavi Esteve
223 points

This is not really a question but a muse about what I'm thinking of a better way to monetize mobile traffic via house ads. Yes, I seek your opinions. If I were to have a "worldwide" popular app at...

Business Model Monetization Ads Mobile Payments Mobile Apps

asked Feb 23 '12 at 20:36

Killua
68 points

Our Startup company developed a web application for Data Analysis in Marketing. It's a B2B product that is innovative and complex. Although the app is very simple to use, the elaboration of the...

Business Model Saas Selling

asked Mar 2 '12 at 06:39

João Daniel
111 points

I'm thinking of starting up a minor sports team in the world of e-sports and I'd like to model it after the more well-known models in hockey and football. I've tried going to the official websites...

Business Model Research Team

asked Feb 14 '12 at 06:39

Patrickgamer
234 points

How do you estimate (simply) the lifetime of a customer in the early days of a SaaS startup? E.g. in the first, say 3 months, you will have a number of customers who have already left and a number...

Business Model Metrics Saas

asked Feb 6 '12 at 22:47

Ryan
1,365 points

I've got a consulting business built around my personal skills and offerings. I've picked up a few sales people to help increase work volume (currently part-time outside of a day-job). The company...

Sales Business Model Consulting Revenue Growth

asked Jan 26 '12 at 07:23

Patrickgamer
234 points

What is the name of a business model where you offer a product for free to entice people to use your service? I'm not referring to freemium. I am more talking about how Google works. They offer...

Marketing Definitions Business Model

asked Feb 2 '12 at 17:53

Daveo
113 points

I'm setting up an ad-supported website and trying to work through the numbers. I came across this article that gives a model. Being a newb at advertising, I've got quite a few questions: For CPM...

Business Model Monetization Advertising Website

asked Jan 14 '12 at 14:10

Ginius
101 points

Hi I am looking for some sample business model canvas with proper details ? Any link or image would be welcome Any quick tool to build a model canvas would be also helpful. cheers //edit I am...

Strategy Business Model

asked Jan 16 '12 at 23:54

Altuure
103 points

Our start-up is not yet launched but has been proposed to make a co-branded website with a big player on the market, where both parties would be presented equally through a number of ads and links...

Marketing Sales Business Model Business Branding

asked Jan 17 '12 at 06:44

Patrick
23 points

I wonder, how did Quora persuaded their investors as they don't make revenue and even they don't have any revenue model as far as I know. The question is same again for twitter ( I know they sell...

Funding Pitch Business Model Twitter Fundraising

asked Dec 27 '11 at 15:54

To Rr0t
69 points

We're a 2 man startup. Im tech side, hes (business) side. I'm a full-time student, put in a good 20-30 hours per week (still!) while he says hes putting in around 10.. but its really closer to...

Business Model Conflicts Problem Solving

asked Dec 3 '11 at 02:02

Meow
137 points