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Strengths and Weakness of Split or A/B testing

Listening to a trendy popular book which appears to be pushing A/B split testing pretty hard without covering the weaknesses or barriers to get returns from it. Are the any good resource for...

asked Jan 14 '12 at 15:11
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Blunders .
899 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
2.28K Views
Making a business development deal happen

So I have a brand new startup company that provides valuable resources to a variety of consumers in the college application/admission process, what I want to know is, how can I approach a college...

asked Sep 14 '13 at 07:24
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Bwheeler96
113 points

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3 Answers
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What is the most affordable combination for taking credit card payments online from around the world?

I have looked at the similar questions posted and believe mine is different - please read the specifics of my question below: Assuming we do not want to use PayPal (or Google Checkout etc.), it...

asked Mar 8 '11 at 01:28
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Nikolay Piryankov
683 points

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1 Answers
2.35K Views
Price vs. long-term potential: how to pick counsel for incorporation?

For those of us who have incorporated a start-up and for those of us who are in the process: (1) did you hire counsel to handle the initial paperwork (i.e., for the initial founders' stock...

asked Apr 7 '11 at 22:15
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User6492
1,747 points

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3 Answers
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What kind of insurance protects against frivolous lawsuits?

I have a business that publishes information and reviews about local businesses. We are registered as an LLC with two partners and no employees. One of our concerns is frivolous lawsuits from...

asked Apr 17 '11 at 23:41
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Nick C.
111 points

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1 Answers
3K Views
Can I file a wage claim if my base salary is below 24k a year?

I was told by a lawyer that I can file a wage claim against the startup I've been working with for the last 3 years. I am in the middle of equity talks with the owners of the startup. I want to use...

asked May 28 '11 at 07:01
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Anthony
26 points

2 Votes
7 Answers
4.84K Views
Should I join a startup or go to Amazon?

I have a two job offers: Amazon - Merchandising Specialist. I would be working with vendors, managing inventory and analysis of sales, and marketing the products. Ecommerce Startup - I would be...

asked Jun 9 '11 at 21:59
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Liss
11 points

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2 Answers
2.5K Views
Will an angel investor be turned off by the founders not wanting to quit their day jobs just yet?

....my co-founder and I are working on a SaaS product and there is a chance we may seek an angel investment. Do you think us wanting to keep our day jobs for 3-6 more months will be a turn-off to...

asked Sep 12 '11 at 16:51
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Dmurtagh
157 points

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3 Answers
3.73K Views
How to keep track (on file) of income and expenses?

I want to keep track of my startup's income and expenses. Is excel the right software? And how should I do it, a column for income and a column for expenses? Is there some template you can recommend?

asked Feb 27 '12 at 08:14
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Startup1
90 points

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1 Answers
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Evaluating competitors assets

I'm curious to know how most go about gathering information regarding their competitors? I am interested in developing an application that would directly compete with numerous websites and I am...

asked Jun 5 '12 at 05:20
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Tbowman
217 points

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1 Answers
2.73K Views
How much power should you give your part-time staff?

My company started hiring office assistants a couple years ago. The rationale is pretty straightforward: since good engineers are hard to find, free our engineers of non-engineering tasks so they...

asked Jan 11 '13 at 05:34
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User1662
173 points

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2 Answers
2.85K Views
How to interrupt my potential customers with marketing campaign?

I have a list of potential customers who I must 'interrupt' in order to get their attention. I have a website where they can join a mailing list, but for one reason or another my potential...

asked Feb 11 '10 at 16:25
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Smart Company Software
1,190 points

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5 Answers
4.72K Views
Create website promotion video

How can I create a promotional video explaining "How to use my website" a) It should show the screen movements of my cursor explaining different features of my website. b) There should be a...

asked Apr 9 '10 at 07:14
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User2351
56 points

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2 Answers
2.19K Views
Any recommendations for technical writers?

Can someone please recommend a good firm or contractor for writing and maintaining an online product manual in English?

asked Jan 8 '11 at 06:01
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Oleg Barshay
2,091 points

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2 Answers
2.36K Views
Is it mandatory to get a small-online-startup-business registered in USA?

Specs- Its gonna be a one man show. The person running the business already has a dayjob elsewhere. I guess he's a waiter and I am not sure if he has an EIN. He would like to avoid registrations...

asked Feb 2 '11 at 20:38
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Prateek Mishra
137 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
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When do we need to become an official company?

So I'm starting a new venture with a friend of mine. Basically, we are not going to be looking for seed funding, or really any funding for that matter. We are going to be up fronting the costs to...

asked Aug 30 '11 at 23:09
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Slandau
203 points

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2 Answers
2.59K Views
Is it legal to piggy back off a successful app's name by putting a spin on it?

Since Flappy Bird was taken down from the app store, tens of similar games have popped up. Two of which are currently the top free games on the app store!Is it legitimate to piggy back off Flappy...

asked Feb 18 '14 at 17:13
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Bruce Schwartz
767 points

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Can you do negative SEO on your competitors to gain the #1 spot?

For my target keyword I am ranking as #1. Lately I've started seeing strange backlinks (lots of them) in Google Webmaster Tools.I suspect one of my competitors is doing it to potentially screw up...

asked Jun 19 '14 at 01:42
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Kevin Kinder
11 points

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1 Answers
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Restaurant Market Sizes

I understand the restaurant market decently. $500 billion covers every food service location in the country, with about $180 billion of that covering full-service restaurants. Those full-service...

asked Dec 30 '09 at 07:49
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Josh Sam Bob
1,578 points

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3 Answers
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Java and .net software market, what are the differences?

If one was to write a web application (commercial), what differences market wise is there between the java world and .net? Say I build an ecommerce application, would I be locking myself into a...

asked Jan 8 '10 at 04:40
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Un Startup
162 points