Competition Questions

I am launching some SaaS later next week that will be directly competing with someone who has a monopoly in the space. We will (hopefully) be cheaper, more features, better support and more...

Marketing Competition Saas

asked Aug 11 '11 at 04:59

Nextgenneo
327 points

we have a customer that's about to choose between us writing software for them, and a ready made solution. The market is investment banking, and we have the opportunity to staff people and grow our...

Software Finance Competition Project Quote

asked Aug 14 '11 at 09:15

Mithrandir
11 points

I am looking to start a service business that has very low barriers to entry and I am concerned with competition. Has anyone had a similar problem or concern? If so, what have you done to overcome...

Getting Started Competition Micro Startup

asked Aug 16 '11 at 09:41

Grandejessica
6 points

This app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator/id289940142?mt=8) seems pretty good, but I would like to make a better version. I am already an iPhone app developer. Is it worth it to...

Development Competition Iphone Apps

asked Jul 12 '11 at 05:58

Ethan
113 points

I created my own product(P) which is pretty much standalone but would benefit a LOT if it integrates with existing ERP package(ERP). Integration can be done 2 ways: read only where I pull data...

Recommendations Legal Competition Proposal

asked Jul 1 '11 at 12:33

Katit
276 points

There is a lot's of start-ups that not protected by a patent like tumblr/twitter/evernote and more... How do they start getting massive users without letting copycats and Competitor disturbing...

Marketing Technology Competition Seed Funding

asked Jun 21 '11 at 01:47

Frank Parsons
6 points

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?...

Competition Market Opportunity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 18:58

Richard Des Londe
206 points

At one point MySpace was THE winner in social networks, but over the span of just a few years lost out to Facebook. Why did this happen? And what lessons can we learn for our own companies? I am...

Competition Social Network

asked May 20 '11 at 03:25

Jim Daniel
119 points

I know this question has been asked many times before in a plethora of different ways, but I couldn't find anything to help me out, so my apologies if this comes off as a duplicate of another...

Getting Started Marketing Strategy Competition

asked May 25 '11 at 09:49

Digital Sea
1,613 points

I'm in a field with several hundred competitors, a few big, some medium, but most are small ISVs. Are there any tools out there that will help estimate how my competitors are doing in terms of...

Sales Software Competition

asked May 16 '11 at 10:07

Lkessler
1,471 points

I am just venturing into a new product and one thing I realised is that "Price is the ONLY one advantage" I have. I have solid web-development experience and I can build web apps in a fraction of...

Pricing Bootstrapped Competition

asked May 17 '11 at 04:42

User8226
197 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

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

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

I am finally putting the final touches on my business plan and have begun looking for seed capital for my project. In recent weeks I have come upon new data about the startup capital of some of...

Competition Budget

asked May 10 '11 at 07:50

Miguel Buckenmeyer
482 points

I have a software package that works in concert with other systems that are similar to CRMs. (sorry to be vague). Our clients will always have one of the "crm"'s installed and our product bolts on...

Competition Demo

asked Apr 26 '11 at 05:06

Chris Lively
443 points

There are currently two providers of an IT-solution in a national market. These two charge roughly four times the price I would expect to see in a functioning market. This indicates that the two...

Competition

asked Apr 29 '11 at 19:05

David
1,567 points

There is talk about the minimal viable product and release early and often. These principles are fine in most circumstances, but what if you KNOW that your product will be far better than the...

Strategy Competition

asked May 1 '11 at 06:36

David
1,567 points

E-conomic is online accounting software, which enables you to write invoices to customers using web forms, track inventory etc. I am considering to start a company, which would compete with this...

Strategy Competition Strategic Management

asked Apr 10 '11 at 18:37

David
1,567 points

I started working on a location based game for smartphones this past august (www.tuzo.ca). At the time, competitors included Foursquare, Gowalla, and some smaller players but i felt like I could...

Competition Iphone

asked Apr 16 '11 at 14:40

Janan Rajeevikaran
76 points