Market Opportunity Questions


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Estimating market size when creating a new market

How would a startup that intends to provide a brand new type of service quantify the market potential without spending a lot of money on legitimate survey research? Or without rolling out the...

asked Dec 24 '11 at 06:00
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Caligirl
204 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.65K Views
Marketing a software product to new lawyers, when their industry shows mass unemployment?

I am creating a SaaS software product that targets brand new law graduates. But statistics show that law schools are churning out TWICE as many lawyers than there is demand.So that means half of...

asked Jun 24 '14 at 22:10
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Violet Hall
12 points

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2 Answers
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Is the market for energy drinks too saturated? How can I differentiate?

I want to start my own brand of energy drinks and related products. Would you say the market is far too saturated for any new player?What are some ways I could differentiate my product in the sea...

asked Apr 10 '14 at 23:57
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Donald Kennamer
12 points

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.18K Views
Which markets are ripe for disruption?

Which segments would you say have gone stale for far too long and ripe for disruption?

asked Mar 21 '14 at 11:55
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Everett Vangundy
50 points

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2 Answers
2.48K Views
Large enough market for an Airbnb for dog walkers?

The only real competitor in this market, DogVacay, is focused primary on dog boarding.I feel there might be a bigger market for just dog walking, but how can I go about quantifying that market? Is...

asked Mar 17 '14 at 19:48
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Jordan Vargas
45 points

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2 Answers
2.57K Views
Is the market for link building tools large enough?

I am contemplating building a tool similar to BuzzStream for link building. How can I find out if the market size is big enough to easily get to $1M in revenue? BuzzStream doesn't seem to have...

asked Feb 14 '14 at 14:53
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Charles C. Williams
11 points

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2 Answers
2.69K Views
Is lack of marketing from competitors a good reason to build a startup?

Background: I have a web app idea in mind that I have started developing for fun. As I started seeing potential for revenue, I realized that a lot of other competitors have already started this...

asked Jul 17 '12 at 03:46
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Jason
11 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.31K Views
Interpreting smoke test results

Looking for early market validation re our startup idea, we did a simple smoke test: we created a facebook ads campaign, linked it to a launchrock page and looked to see what happened. We set a $20...

asked Feb 2 '12 at 23:09
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Guidupuy
8 points

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3 Answers
2.21K Views
Do I need a Market segment?

When starting a On line Retail store that uses drop-shipping services, will I still need to choose a market segment? Or can I just market and sell to anyone all over the world. I mean the...

asked Aug 11 '11 at 03:42
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I Scotts
152 points

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3 Answers
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Market opportunities for low-level softwares?

I'm building compilers, decompilers, assemblers, processor emulators, drivers etc. for learning purposes. Thinking to convert these immature but useful product line into a startup. Traditional...

asked Jul 5 '11 at 15:08
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Jeff
58 points

10 Votes
4 Answers
2.84K Views
How does "second to market" compete with "first to market" when the company that was first to market is very entrenched in the market already?

As an example, let's take Yelp. Yelp has carved out a serious niche for itself in the user review market. What if you thought you could do it better? How would you make traction in that market?...

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:58
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Richard Des Londe
206 points

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3 Answers
2.94K Views
How should I start building a social network site?

Early I asked a question about starting a social network company. Thanks for people who answered my question. I learned that I might implement the ideas first then start a company. But how...

asked Jun 2 '11 at 16:25
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Yc Wang
19 points

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5 Answers
2.38K Views
How can a startup market a product without own marketing team?

We have set up a start up. Its being surviving for last 10 months. We are planning to launch an mobile app soon. But our worry is that we don't have a marketing team. We cannot afford to have a...

asked Apr 28 '11 at 01:26
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Fayaz
35 points

5 Votes
4 Answers
2.76K Views
Does absence of competition put you off?

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...

asked Apr 18 '11 at 23:26
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Matt
2,552 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.26K Views
Current fertile areas for bootstrap startup

Looking at the web environment, it is quite good for a bootstrapped startup. Reasons are: Low barrier to entry Low startup / teardown costs Can start or be built with a single person Highly...

asked Oct 27 '10 at 08:33
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Xiaohouzi79
1,257 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.24K Views
How many women purchase an item online every month by age group?

Hey everyone... i have been spending the past 30 minutes trying to find real statistics from any time in the past three years. I am simply trying to find a breakdown by age group of female...

asked Sep 27 '10 at 10:56
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Bound008
113 points

1 Votes
5 Answers
2.31K Views
Which markets are under served?

Which business ideas would you go after if you had the time?

asked Jul 25 '10 at 17:34
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Thom Pete
1,296 points

5 Votes
4 Answers
4.1K Views
Target market: niche vs broad appeal

My startup idea targets a rather specific target market: Small/medium businesses in the UK* that are recruiting directly (i.e. without the use of a recruitment agency) that wish to simplify the...

asked Feb 28 '10 at 14:35
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William Lannen
195 points

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3 Answers
4.52K Views
Market Size of Social Networks

Obviously determining Market Size is a vital step in starting a business. With ecommerce or the sale of a product it seems to be a much more concrete process. On that note, does anyone have any...

asked Jan 26 '10 at 15:59
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Eric Amzalag
818 points

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3 Answers
2.25K Views
Travel Planner Market

So I was wondering if anyone is involved in doing travel planner services. I am thinking a place for individuals or groups to collect info, routes, prices etc. before they travel. Anyone heard...

asked Jan 18 '10 at 01:57
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Thom Pete
1,296 points