Market Research Questions

I work for a startup that is into building speech related applications for mobile phones. We have a number of ideas and want to jump right into product development. Recent developments (I cannot go...

Market Research

asked May 23 '11 at 19:54

Sriram
174 points

I am researching my competitors before getting into SAAS based software market. For one of the competitors total monthly unique visitors to be 3000. I am calculating roughly 50% of them are...

Competition Traffic Saas Market Research

asked May 17 '11 at 06:02

User8226
197 points

I was wondering how to find out how much the user data is worth for a database similar to Foursquare's? I'm not looking to sell personal user information or email addresses, but more along the...

Selling Data Market Research

asked May 5 '11 at 18:08

Janan Rajeevikaran
76 points

www.Compete.com www.Alexa.com Are there other valuable sources I am missing? I would like to avoid a 499/month subscription to see data about the sites referring traffic to a specific URL, however...

Competition Market Research

asked May 6 '11 at 01:29

Dan
11 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

Having just been recently laid off, I would like to give some attention to an idea that's been incubating in my mind for a while for an information-based product. This is similar to the model of...

Ideas Planning Recommendations Market Research

asked Apr 22 '11 at 13:40

Ashes999
128 points

I would like to know if you guys have any tips on where someone can see for example, how's the wine market doing or the toys market doing world wide or US only. I have been looking around but I...

Reports Market Research

asked Mar 24 '11 at 19:03

Diogo Da Silva
36 points

In many countries, the income of companies is public and accessible. My question is whether this is correct also for Germany, and where I could look up such information?

Marketing Market Analysis Market Research

asked Mar 25 '11 at 20:17

David
1,567 points

When you're not sure which market is worth aiming for, how do you figure out whether to go for a broad market (with lots of competition) or a narrow one (with no competition but good chance to slip...

Competition Market Research Target Market

asked Mar 20 '11 at 08:47

Platinum Azure
133 points

I tried Mturk but not enough willing participants in english speaking countries. And what are some questions I can ask to validate market?

Market Research

asked Mar 6 '11 at 08:39

Matt
141 points

I have an idea for a VoIP mobile app on Android that would provide some advanced technical features not currently available (i.e. better encryption, firewall traversal, etc.) The problem I have is...

Development Market Analysis Market Research Voip

asked Feb 28 '11 at 07:47

Ajpyles
111 points

I'm trying to do things the proper, "lean" way by looking to survey potential users/customers so I can develop a product people want. The survey is out, but how do I know when I have sufficient...

Ideas Market Analysis Market Research Survey

asked Feb 3 '11 at 05:48

Acconrad
113 points

I would like to survey a community of prospects about a new service we are thinking of developing. A question I would really like answered is "How much would you be willing to pay?" The problem is...

Market Analysis Market Research Survey

asked Feb 8 '11 at 07:50

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

We need to determine if there's a market for our new idea. Has anyone ever used a market research firm to determine that before? How much do they charge?

Market Market Research

asked Jan 25 '11 at 11:55

Huisjames
26 points

This is a video of the google goggles app which does a good job of explaining what the current state of the art in visual search can do. its also being applied to searching patents, product...

Marketing Products Ideas Market Research

asked Dec 17 '10 at 09:45

Ben
522 points

Before taking on a project, there is always a question: "How many people will use this?" So how do I measure that "people", at least inaccurate.

Marketing Market Analysis Market Research

asked Nov 25 '10 at 14:19

Daniel Excinsky
148 points

I'm in the middle of building a useful (as I think) SaaS for small e-commerce stores. Before I got too deep into that, I'd like to find out if they are really interested. In other words, I want to...

Customers B2B Market Research

asked Dec 1 '10 at 07:17

Salmon
970 points

We have developed a system that lets small businesses issue membership cards to their clients which can then be used as payment cards. The clients either preload the card with money or link it with...

Sales Pitch Statistics Ethics Market Research

asked Nov 10 '10 at 05:42

Olivier Lalonde
2,753 points

I am looking to do some A/B tests using landing pages but I am not a designer. Do you know of a company that sells or offers hosted landing pages at a reasonable price? I have looked at...

Inbound Marketing Ab Testing Market Research

asked Oct 9 '10 at 12:21

Ricardo
4,815 points

Everyone want to have a website now but few of them prefer to outsource to companies in India, China etc but few want to get work done in their country, someone nearby. Do you prefer to outsource...

Marketing Recommendations Market Research

asked Oct 17 '10 at 04:04

Kashish
95 points