Launch Questions

What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to...

Marketing Launch Website Beta Branding

asked Sep 24 '11 at 04:27

Dan Mac Bean
151 points

I have a well thought out idea for a new startup. The startup will be unrelated to my current small company that is doing quite well. My basic options are to incubate the new startup within my...

Getting Started Launch Incubators Business Model

asked Sep 28 '11 at 02:21

Keith De Long
5,091 points

We have a website that's just about to be released. We did a limited beta release (friends, family) and some light advertising with Google Adwords (very small budget- about $200). The ad campaign...

Launch Website Internet Marketing

asked Sep 13 '11 at 08:07

Cuga
161 points

The simplest / minimalist sign up processes is usually the best for the end user. Can you provide some examples. I need to create a sign up process for 2 types of end users, similar to a job site....

Launch Website User Experience Users Registration

asked Aug 18 '11 at 03:32

Webster
1 point

I have a static prototype for a very promising company. The prototype is not dynamic, just made to show how the site works. I need an investment to actually develop the functionality and get some...

Launch Venture Capital Angel Investment Prototype

asked Aug 7 '11 at 03:29

Dawson Whitfield
6 points

We are having a startup in social and location based networking space. We are currently in private beta. What will be the best strategy or events to launch the product? Thanks!

Marketing Launch Location Social Network Beta

asked Aug 1 '11 at 04:47

Neology
113 points

I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?

Marketing Launch Ecommerce Promotion

asked Jul 17 '11 at 18:09

Bold Rusty
11 points

I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide...

Launch Payments Saas Beta Freemium

asked Jul 5 '11 at 23:12

Lee
8 points

I've seen plenty of questions dealing with beta testing, marketing, market research and so on. My question is which practical quality assurance and security steps should a web app or service make...

Launch Product Launch Security QA

asked Jun 19 '11 at 22:53

Joe
121 points

If an individual is contacted by startup conference (eg TechCrunch Disrupt/DEMO/Launch) officials considering about their application to launch at the event, how should the person prepare for the...

Launch Interviews Conferences Product Launch Demo

asked Jun 8 '11 at 03:05

Geekette
6 points

I've been experimenting with certain ways to improve the number of users for my social dating website, and since the daily user count is so low, even the approach for any experiment is almost...

Launch Users User Acquisition

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:11

Herr K
292 points

Days based (7/14/30 days trial) or usage based (15/30 logins/transactions etc. trial). Has somebody compiled any empirical data to see which strategy is better? Appreciate your thoughts on this.

Launch Trial Product Launch

asked Jun 1 '11 at 16:16

Ali
179 points

I'm putting together a webcomic and am considering taking down the construction page in the next couple of days and going live (the site is finished). I just have a few questions regarding a...

Launch Website

asked May 11 '11 at 16:32

Harold
26 points

There is Company X online that provides a service for its visitors - and though they currently have the monopoly and have for the past 10 years, the quality of their service is not so great and...

Launch Customers Competition Market Analysis

asked May 18 '11 at 01:59

Sam
509 points

Is there a better time during the year to launch? Business is in the Food and drink / Restaurant industry, and will be an online service free for customers.

Launch

asked May 18 '11 at 03:25

Sam
509 points

I want to start a Advertising agency. I already have many of the requirements like a video and image editor (my friend), highly skilled software and electronic engineers (my brother), and an...

Launch Advertising

asked May 2 '11 at 04:13

Satya Narayana Padhy
6 points

Facebook started at Harvard and then spread to a very few other colleges early on. Eventually anyone with a university address could get an account, but they always kept an air of...

Launch

asked Mar 7 '11 at 10:11

Matt
141 points

I have launched a web app a couple of days ago in closed BETA and I have been trying quite hard to contact relevant bloggers (about 12 of them now) to post/tweet about my startup and to offer BETA...

Launch Email Beta Product Launch

asked Feb 26 '11 at 01:31

Carl
33 points

As I work on finishing up the final details for my start-up. I wanted to know if anyone here setup pilot programs for their first few customers at discounted rates or for free for a limited period...

Launch Promotion

asked Jan 31 '11 at 17:35

John
161 points

Assume that we've got a 10.000 (usd or euros) budget. Which of the following 3 options is better for launching? 1) Spend all of it on a great domain (e.g mymobile.com) 2) Spend 20 on a mediocre...

Marketing Launch Adwords Domain

asked Feb 1 '11 at 04:54

Cherouvim
219 points