Growth Questions

How would you compare a telecommuting (overseas) job at a startup (when everything at the startup be it the work, the environment, the people, etc looks exciting enough) with another job at the...

Development Jobs Growth Overseas

asked Aug 19 '11 at 03:19

Atul Goyal
496 points

Older company (generally?) have: more resources hire better talent (not sure about this though) are already popular - market share (guess more stuff can be added here that goes in favor of older...

Success Growth Innovation

asked Aug 11 '11 at 20:57

Atul Goyal
496 points

Have been running a business for a couple of years now but been managing most of the areas of the business myself - web development and marketing - while I have staff who take care of customer...

Strategy Planning Project Management Growth Business Development

asked Jul 27 '11 at 01:00

Sam
43 points

I assume Foursquare faced this issue. You've got a social service that is location based but requires a lot of users to make valuable. I'm in a similar boat with an upcoming start up, and I'm...

Location Apps Growth Social

asked May 17 '11 at 19:13

Long Winter
271 points

i am running a dating website for 3 months now, have about 5000 unique visitors and 115k page views. My website was featured in a nationwide newspaper, really big though, and it is responsible for...

Community Growth Users

asked May 10 '11 at 16:20

Herr K
292 points

There are millions of forums out there where users are required to register in order to post. How do these sites grow from nothing?

Growth Forum

asked Apr 14 '11 at 23:33

Raklos
138 points

Has anyone come across any research or has had experience with just how much more damaging to product/site adoption it is to have ads like AdSense on your site versus not having them? Any...

Advertising Growth

asked Apr 4 '11 at 10:22

Genadinik
1,821 points

I was just reading a thread which I cannot find again, and it brought up a question. People were advising this guy not to develop his idea 100% perfectly, but to start small, and make it free,...

Strategy Growth

asked Mar 25 '11 at 04:37

Aslyesnow
214 points

Quora is becoming an increasingly powerful resource for startups. How are you using Quora and what do you suggest as best practices for Quora to help build and grow a start up while avoiding being...

Tools Growth

asked Mar 27 '11 at 07:19

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

If you've exhausted your personal network (and friends' networks), and now need to hire people who have skills that you don't have, would you try working with a staffing agency? I've heard a lot...

Hiring Management Employees Growth

asked Mar 19 '11 at 08:35

John
23 points

Twitter can be a great tool to help a start up get noticed and build relationships with prospects and clients. What are the two best things you've done for your start up that leverage Twitter...

Growth Twitter Clients Prospects

asked Mar 20 '11 at 03:48

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

Many of us here on the site are owners of small businesses or getting a startup up and running. I'm curious to know what goals people are setting for the new year, and whether or not you spend time...

Strategy Planning Growth

asked Dec 15 '10 at 03:39

Elie
4,692 points

From day one and until recently our sales process was awesomely non-existent and very much adhoc. As we sell creative and web software development services, and lack of good process bit us in the...

Sales Business Process Growth

asked Nov 20 '10 at 09:12

Alex
262 points

I know this depends on the community in question, how actively I am marketing it, how well search engines have indexed it and so forth. But I was wondering if there are some good guidelines in...

Community Growth

asked Nov 28 '10 at 05:36

Daniel Bingham
148 points

I'm currently building a business plan for my startup. The startup is a kind of Q&A website with an important twist that differs it from existing Q&A websites. The information in the biz...

Growth

asked Oct 17 '10 at 00:00

Roy Peleg
116 points

I just started a developing company. We are 4 partners. Two of us are programmers. Our start-up is slowly growing — we have a customer and few persons are interested to invest money. Now we need...

Partner Growth

asked Sep 27 '10 at 23:57

Vikingosegundo
126 points

I'm creating a forecast for my free membership-based website. I want to create both a membership growth forecast and a revenue forecast. While every website is different, I'd like to know how...

Forecast Growth

asked Apr 28 '10 at 12:36

User3272
48 points

I often read about large companies that are in major trouble. According to the theories of economies of scale/scope large companies should, almost by definition, be profitable. t also seems like...

Growth Profitability

asked Mar 14 '10 at 07:28

David
1,567 points

I'm working on a startup that is providing web-based application. We have over 600 paying customers, which is 5% market share in that particular niche. It takes 2 persons to drive this business,...

Growth Exit Strategy

asked Jan 27 '10 at 21:08

Tambet
215 points

Traditionally businesses have grown through hiring employees, building and acquiring assets, establishing branches and subsidiaries, etc. but with this comes high overhead, segregation of duties,...

Strategy Saas Affiliate Growth

asked Jan 2 '10 at 17:39

Starr Ed
948 points